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bad modernist at the permanent carnival of fetishized interiority / 'very gentle and decent'
new from me on the Verso blog: what happened to the U.S. climate movement? what can we learn from it's dissipation? and in a time of quietude, what can be gleaned from contrasts with the data center rebellion? www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/w...
Where is the U.S. climate movement?
In the United States, there is a pervasive sense that the once-ascendent climate movement is in disarray or has even disappeared. The prior decade saw the actions and ambitions of climate activism bec...
versobooks.com
this might be my favorite thing she’s done www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Anne Carson · Poem: ‘Smile’
lrb.co.uk
here is the key takeaway of the document, based on the author’s abstract: you must change your life
if you are not serious enough to engage with S/Z on its terms you should straight up not know about it
the environmental apologia for data centers (which compete w other demands for regional water use w/in a time-window-limited capacity, it’s disingenuous to claim it’s abt aggregate) always bottoms out ‘well it’ll improve’ + some whataboutism re the meat industry. these do not answer the critique
my brilliant friend has an essential article in the new mfs
She remembered enjoying nouveaux romans, which she read against the grain: ‘I could visualise the characters and completely identified with them. I felt like they were describing my life.’ www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Daniella Shreir · My Mother’s Prison: Chantal Akerman’s Predicament
Although she often responded to questions with anecdotes and talked about the role of chance and the necessity of...
lrb.co.uk
i support generalizing this practice. put doja cat in moby dick
Why Is TikTok in This Book From 2006?
nytimes.com
lowkey think the guardian list is the best you can hope for from a silly genre but here’s 100 novels i like that aren’t on it
excellent and cathartic essay on hamrah and the pseudocritical tendency he represents www.theideasletter.org/essay/he-los...
He Lost It at the Movies - The Ideas Letter
What begins as a study of the combative film critic A.S. Hamrah becomes a broader meditation on the fate of criticism in an age of streaming, commercialization, and online discourse.…
theideasletter.org
highly recommend this essay review in the new alh about the fascist-libertarian convergence on particular notions of ‘freedom’
the end of this piece is really something
London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · 4mo ago‘De Kooning’s 𝘚𝘶𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘣 𝘪𝘯 𝘏𝘢𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘢 is a counter-revolutionary painting. Well, of course. It is counter-revolutionary because it is counter everything, versus everything, lost in suburbia. It wants to show us how hard it had to work to get precisely nowhere.’ T.J. Clark: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
we’ll always have andreas malm, adam hanieh, and anahid nersessian
Ted McCormick@tedmccormick.bsky.social · 4mo agowe should get a refund for the last generation or two’s worth of public intellectuals
still thinking abt transcription. great book, maybe his best
seeing oklou half fixed me. grouper in september will fix the rest of me
