TJ Clark speculating on Chauvet cave paintings in lrb:
Javier Padilla
@jpadillar.bsky.social
Assoc. Professor @ Colgate Univ. interested in poetry, postcolonial, Irish, and Latin American Literatures.
Hope you will consider submitting an abstract for my proposed seminar—Eruptive Temporalities: From Aesthetic to Political Revolution—at the 2027 ACLA: www.acla.org/seminar/8b6a...
The financiers are doing theory (with tired, obligatory references to the de Man affair, and how Foucault frequented bathhouses).
The Cantos of Ezra Pound (now a major motion picture)
“Holland is good at playing a gormless young man of twenty going on twelve.” 😬 bsky.app/profile/lrb....
London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · last wk.We're so back. Sorry about the website issues earlier. @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social’s 𝘖𝘥𝘺𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘺 review is now fully available online. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Moving to a new office I discovered I had bought a copy of the Codex Seraphinianus a couple of years ago:
“Much of Disclosure Day is devoted to elaborately organised crash scenes.” lol bsky.app/profile/lrb....
London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · 3w ago‘𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘋𝘢𝘺 makes wise or second thoughts seem stingy. Don’t we know how to take a risk now and again? Surely we can endorse maxims like “People have a right to the truth” or “Don’t be afraid of what you don’t know’?”’ Michael Wood at the movies. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
‘If Joyce’s politics were hard to decipher, it was partly because he concealed his Parnellism behind something of the politician’s reserved and enigmatic demeanour.’ Terry Eagleton on James Joyce’s political life. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Terry Eagleton · Starveling Rabblement: Joyce’s Politics
If Joyce’s politics were hard to decipher, it was partly because he concealed his Parnellism behind something of the...
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Marx. In Capital: “In English writers of the 17th century we still often find the word "worth' used for use-value and 'value' for exchange value. This is quite in accordance with the spirit of a language that likes to use a Teutonic word for the actual thing, and a Romance word for its reflection.”
‘For many unionists, Irish unity means political checkmate at the end of a four-hundred-year conflict that began with the Protestant plantation of Ulster by James I.’ Patrick Cockburn on the case for a united Ireland. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Patrick Cockburn · Leap in the Dark: Irish Unity
What would happen if these two very different societies were united, when their institutions and attitudes have evolved...
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Baudelaire quote from which Benjamin conceptualized his angel?
happy pub day to @erickabeckman.bsky.social !! Agrarian Questions: The Latin American Novel on the Road to Capitalism new from @versobooks.bsky.social ! www.versobooks.com/products/317...
Agrarian Questions
Between 1910 and 1970, Latin America experienced a rapid and radical transformation. Rural societies became urban, and peasants found themselves forced into precarious wage labor. The Latin American n...
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Adorno: “Ultimately, Dalí became an exalted society painter.”
Hard not to draw a parallel between the current rise of horror movies and the appearance of movies like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre during the crisis of the 1970s.
Using APA citation style feels like a weird MLA derivative.
if you adopt an American cat, you automatically get citizenship
