Stuart Hall hitting hard these days

In retrospect the bloody eye was kinda chic and I should bring it back

this is how our end of year lists should work

inspirational that alongside his list of best films fassbinder also lists ‘the least important’ and ‘most disgusting’ films

thought of something annoying to say “a sex is a gender with an army and a navy”

unfortunately TDOV always kinda feels like one of those niche largely online microholidays like Pi Day or May the Fourth Be With You. don’t really think about it or register it until you stumble on to the same trite genres of posts or a cutesy flyer at the library and go ohhh right

happy birthday jimmy!!

Definitely not a central concern of his but it is there! He has quite a few remarks on Wagner in Antinomies of Realism, there's the extended analysis of Mahler's Sixth in Allegory and Ideology, and ofc there are remarks on Schoenberg in Marxism and Form (though as an explication of Adorno)

To lose Backhaus, Habermas and Kluge so close together—regardless of my ambivalence about some of them I'm feeling very saddened by the loss of these giants of the German New Left now, at a moment when intellectual life is everywhere being vitiated

Alexander Kluge ist gestern im Alter von 94 Jahren in München verstorben.

Oh man, Alexander Kluge too :(

La petite mort de l’auteur

actually introspection did not exist until i started working on my dissertation... and then this kinda guilt based whammy showed up from europe, a lot of it from vienna

mainly i need a boyfriend for logistical reasons

thank you!

lol what is this from?

Most people rejected his message. They hated Freud because he told them the truth.

feeling the dearth of foreign press and middle eastern accounts on this website quite intensely rn. twitter sucks so bad but at least there was more of that there, at least back when i was on it

If the idea that video games themselves incited violence was in some sense a moral panic, what is true is that violence increasingly takes on the character of a video game

"i'm starting to feel just a little abused like a coffee machine in an office" still one of our era's most iconic lines

badly need to visit the heroic soviet scale statue of shakira in barranquilla her hometown

I even find “egg” talk distasteful because of a perhaps extreme aversion to being prescriptive or imputing my experience with gender to others. but let’s not pretend that is or could be anywhere near as widespread or coercive as the pressure to be cis

This stuff is so infuriating. As a young person figuring this stuff out not once did someone suggest to me I might be trans. but once I came out as trans people *repeatedly* suggested to me that I might just be a feminine gay boy or nonbinary or something less extreme. as if we were negotiating

fuck this evil country

imagining a Romantasy reader who gets into Updike because they hear he's a sex author and being really disappointed by The Centaur

This is how my acknowledgments are gonna look