Who said that war does not pay? Before Trump struck Iran, US corporate profits were predicted to rise 11.4%. After the bombs started falling, the rise rose to 19%, the strongest quarter rise since 2021. www.ft.com/content/0b01...
This is it. This is the editorial that nails everything wrong with not only celebrating the recent psychedelic EO but the flaw at the heart of where our modern psychedelic renaissance has ended up.
GHOST IN THE MACHINE is a terrific film tracing the prehistory of so-called AI back through the connection btw colonialism, eugenics and statistics. NYC premiere 2nd May 7:30 Tishman Auditorium The New School 63 5th ave. Free, open to the public. Register here: event.newschool.edu/ghostinthema...
Now available! Jennifer Moxley's The Midnight Work:
"In a time where many of us seem hypnotized by apocalyptic visions, Moxley celebrates everyday life, even in extraordinary circumstances. This is now unusual enough, I think, to be called brave."―Rae Armantrout
I love that period of Ashbery. ‘There is nothing to do / For our liberation, except wait in the horror of it’ seems scarily apt. Also the image you posted strikes me as the kind of thing Ashbery might have used in a collage.
Then again, could we be forgiven for buying the line that capitalist realism is basically a form of determinism?
Maybe we were more condemned to freedom than we thought?
If justice cannot be made to operate under the worst possible conditions of social hysteria, what does it matter how it operates at other times?
—E.L. Doctorow, The Book of Daniel (1/2)
Language discovers what one might know, which in turn is always less than what language might say.
- Lynn Hejinian
"Well, Genet had a phrase that I repeat often: ‘Difficulty is an author’s respect for the reader’, or rather, making him or her think, collaborate – the work is incomplete without the reader’s input…"
- Juan Goytisolo
“The beginner wants a raison d’être so that beginning won’t seem pointless but the beginner has to begin before a raison d’être can appear.”
—Lyn Hejinian, out of _The Beginner_ (Tuumba, 2002)
Recalling—untidily, stretchily—Auden’s beginner, in “Writing” (in _The Dyer’s Hand_), wooing (1/2)
"I’m having a real day of it."
Anxiety, by Frank O’Hara
OCTOBER Beauty appeals like a cry for help that’s distant or inhuman so foreclosed. We say “ablaze” because we can’t stand it: red and yellow nearing or nearly turning toward
We say / “ablaze” // because we can’t stand it:
Rae Armantrout
Rae Armantrout
from Go Figure @weslpress.bsky.social
Very grateful to Senator Bernie Sanders for bringing U.S. unions together to create a common front in the face of the threat AI poses to workers and much else.
Sometimes it takes an 84-year-old to do the high tech stuff!
www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
This is a remarkable judgment - but also to be expected when the legislature is pushing the courts in remarkable ways.
The Court struck the legislation down because the purpose of the law was to stop protest, which is incompatible with Aus system of democracy
www.caselaw.nsw.gov.au/decision/19d...
@benburgis.bsky.social and I critique Steven Pinker's very bad reading of Marx for @currentaffairs.bsky.social
www.currentaffairs.org/news/steven-...
“I read at night, until three or four in the morning. The darkness around you adds greatly to the absolute passion that develops between you and the book.”
—The Suspended Passion, Marguerite Duras; tr. Chris Turner
new in Parapraxis online!
Love's Work
the romance boom, psychoanalysis, Emily Henry, and creative labor
www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/lov...
What's the last good poetry collection you read? What do I need to add to my queue?
And also because evidence does not simply find itself.
A deeply nerdish tip: don't get the Stockholm Syndrome and the Copenhagen Interpretation confused, otherwise you won't be sure if you're the kidnapper, the hostage or both at the same time.
Ugh. Just got my first enquiry from a potential grad student that has obviously been run through AI & its tone of obsequious flattery is off-puttingly creepy. Students out there: please don't do this. I'd rather know you by your 'warts & all' intellectual engagement than uncannily polished artifice.
Some of my editorial work comes via Reedsy. Over the past year it's become completely overrun by people (I can't call them authors) who are asking for editorial help on manuscripts that have been generated by #AI. Often, what they want is for someone to make the text sound more human.
RIP Moya Brennan, a wonderful singer, composer, harpist, sister of Enya, and gave - with Clannad - the first ever performance in Irish on Top of the Pops. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zHT...
The Australian Psychedelic Society is hosting screenings of the acclaimed Australian documentary Edge of Life at BCC Cinemas #coffsharbour (18 May) and Theatre Royal #castlemaine (19 May). You can watch the trailer and buy tickets here: fan-force.com/films/edge-o... #psychedelics #psychedelictherapy
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I see there's an analytic vs continental thing blowing up on Substack and: no. No we are not doing this. It is not 1998 anymore. Searle's dead, Derrida's dead, we're not doing this anymore. Go get a sandwich and look at a pigeon.
I had some people round for dinner last night, and I tried to impress them with a sauce created from vodka, gravy and nitrous oxide. But all I've done is make myself an absolut laughing stock.
