New at PB: @ryancarroll.bsky.social reviews “The Pitt.” Although the show is “chained to the social discourse beyond it,” there is truth in the fact that “we cringe at having to face issues that we must consider but have already considered a million times.”
Today for @publicbooks.bsky.social I wrote about The Pitt, its amazing goofiness (and genuine goodness), and whether aesthetic “failure” might be theoretically operative in its own right—give it a read!!
www.publicbooks.org/the-pitt-how...
the miseducation of ms. lurianna lurilee
Was so honored to have my keyword for @victorianpoetry.bsky.social’s “Poetry’s Parts” series appear in an amazing issue on poetry and labor! Give it ALL a read!!
incredible that Soderbergh has done every single one of these (uncredited stunt double for Rebel Wilson in pitch perfect 2)
I seek the Venn diagram so small that my audience could fit in a utility closet
Vernon Lee is 90% Merleau-Ponty?
no but seriously read Zorg—violence, maternity, infidelity, deception, Chopin’s-The-Awakening-by-way-of-colonial-Guyana
it seems to be available at just a handful of libraries around the world, but there’s a cheap Apple Books version and a paperback—well worth!!
www.thriftbooks.com/w/zorg-a-sto...
paying a nominal fee for a library digitization
Thrilled to be included among fabulous contributors to the latest edition of Dilettante Army, “Ekphrasis.”
Read on for speculations about AI boyfriends, avant-garde burlesque shows, killer machines, and the Freudian death drive.
dilettantearmy.com/articles/ekp...
*vibrating in Merleau-Ponty*
wake up at 3 AM. find it impossible to get back to sleep. read Ode to a Nightingale to pass the time. think of sudden amazing insight about poem. fall asleep, completely forget insight
Image of a substack post showing a cyanometer, a tool to measure the intensity of blue in the sky. Its caption attributes the cyanometer to Horace Benedict de Saussure, whose great-grandson is the linguist Ferdinand de Saussure.
great-grandfather to ferdinand de saussure. signification dynasty
wish i knew
Congrats!
Thanks so much!
Iconic exercise in the heresy of the paraphrase
Thanks so much!!! Zany is the goal!!!
Thanks so much to @ayeshaasiddiqi.bsky.social for caring so deeply about this piece and to @stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social, of course, for everything!!
I wrote for @newinquiry.bsky.social about the psycho-political agons of 90s sitcom neighbors like Kimmy Gibbler, Steve Urkel, and co.—why they showed up, why they were thrown out, and why they kept coming back. Give it a read!
thenewinquiry.com/new-neighbor...
Thanks so much to @ayeshaasiddiqi.bsky.social for caring so deeply about this piece and to @stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social, of course, for everything!!
Broadly IMO novels and films aren’t the main mediums for Developing Thought rn, soapbox-style arguments are—social media posts, essays, reels, etc. most ppl writing novels or making film are getting their political thought from those, which is why didactic art often has hammy literalistic speeches
I think this is true in one way but it also seems right-wing art is also deeply didactic (ranging from heavyhanded jokes about SJWs in Tim Allen sitcoms to “Classical Man” Twitter accts saying that Objectively Good Art is Moral and Edifies the Soul)
this is my specialty!!
- Guillory, The Memo and Modernity
- Maurice Lee, Overwhelmed
- Nunberg, Farewell to the Information Age
- Richard Menke, Telegraphic Realism
- Lisa Gitelman, Raw Data" is an Oxymoron
- Peters and Cmiel, 'Promiscuous Knowledge'
- Eric Hayot's intro to 'Information: a Reader'
This Man is My Dad
kind of gobsmacked by the volume of “so clever, so true, so sad” comments about a….free association of major news topics?
Congratulations!!