My essay on the modernist tug-of-war between materiality and meaning—via William Carlos Williams, Jackson Pollock, Robert Smithson, and Hugh Kenner—is now up on
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Paul Valéry probably wouldn't have been a fan of the fascism debate: “History is the most dangerous product evolved from the chemistry of the intellect…History will justify anything. It teaches precisely nothing, for it contains everything and furnishes examples of everything."
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My review of Christopher Clark Revolutionary Spring is just out ! « Far from being on the verge of a carefully planned coup d’état, contemporary revolts resemble the 1848 revolutions: “poorly planned, dispersed, patchy and bristling with contradictions”
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every serious postmodernist must reckon with metal gear solid
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Welfare for Markets is now out !
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Really great pieces in this issue (which is all about Kenner), from , Todd Cronan, Walter Benn Michaels, , Paul Grimstad, and Joshua Kotin
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Gertrude Stein on Picasso’s poetry: “it is more offensive than just bad poetry”
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nobody talks about how fucking bizarre this instrumental is
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Chicago friends: we'll be workshopping the first chapter of my dissertation—on William Carlos Williams, blobs of paint, and the materiality of writing—at U Chicago on Monday. Please join! voices.uchicago.edu/20thand21stcen
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Chicago friends: we'll be workshopping the first chapter of my dissertation—on William Carlos Williams, blobs of paint, and the materiality of writing—at U Chicago on Monday. Please join! voices.uchicago.edu/20thand21stcen
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Almost got annoyed at this tweet, then calmed myself with the thought that it was probably written by a young, ambitious GRU agent named Pyotr, who heads up the Media Elite Distraction Division.
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why aren’t any art nerds writing their thesis on the neo-surrealist movement currently developing on tiktok
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The whole conversation about AI images would be a whole lot more accurate if we just replace the word “art” with “illustration”
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eavesdropping truly one of life’s great joys. people are constantly saying the most interesting stuff and you just get to listen for free
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Don't really have an opinion on the photos, but Jerry's big spread is certainly a (welcome) harbinger of the coming backlash against "Seinfeld Drip"
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Hate to break it to you, but if you don’t love the suffering that comes with desire, you don’t love being alive
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“I know from the inside that the reality of a person as he or she lives their life, intimately, day by day, from the pores outward, is not what’s delivered directly in their art”
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David Cronenberg saying "I'm a venereal disease having the greatest time of my life" on the POV of Shivers is so funny
Biopics are only good when no attempt is made to make the actor resemble the person they're portraying
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Only way to watch a movie on a plane is with no sound, on someone else’s screen
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Mary Ellen Solt is one of concrete poetry's foremost proponents, but her major work The Peoplemover has received scant attention. In this article, I show how Solt achieves a “demonstration” of the changing life of art in 1968 #concretepoetry #maryellensolt
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"there are few more interesting developments in intellectual politics than the news that Adolph Reed is on the warpath"
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reading Harper’s Index as a kid gave me anxiety. had to stop. it’d be like “Percentage of bird species gone extinct in the last 10 years: 63 percent.” and I’d get really upset and try to figure out what I could do but I was 12. just ended up playing Operation Flashpoint mods 😞
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Aye man Shawty Lo 🕊 asking folks on Bankhead is TI from there will always be one of my favorite Atlanta beef videos 😂
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I'm completely committed to art, but the now-standard defense that it "shows us new ways of living" feels like cope to me. It puts all art on the model of utopian sci-fi. Most great art has a much more oblique relationship to "life" than that.
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The arts should show us new forms, new visions, that new ways of living are possible, they should catalyze dreams of different lives, worlds, experiences, ontologies; things we’ll never see, places we’ll never go. Just a song can do this. Art does play a powerful role in society. twitter.com/David_Rudnick/…
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evidence for my theory/crank belief that there is actually a finite number of possible human faces and we just kind of cycle through them over time
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Canadian photographer Francois Brunell searches and photographs similar people, but who are not related to each other. He has currently photographed about 200 doppelgangers!
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commenting "babe??? WTF" on every couples post i see on valentine's day
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My apologies, this song does not suck
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Is there a spotify playlist similar to rap caviar but with songs that don't suck?
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Perk keeps saying the Suns play "agenda-free basketball" but it sounds like he's saying "a gender-free basketball"
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Well, after the GFC, the Fed had to keep rates really low, which made venture capital more attractive to investors looking for better returns, and, long story short, now this is what everything is like. twitter.com/ohheyjenna/sta
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I once emailed Slavoj Zizek about quantum physics, and he replied within 2 minutes.
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2010s were the decade of the peace sign. We have now entered the decade of the Yin-Yang Symbol
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