March 2012
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Karen Dalton - reason to believe
From the newly...
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“The point of this broader orientation– which I share –that includes nonhumans is...”
– Levi Bryant - Musings on Onticology and Politics II
Yup.
February 2012
ensō (wikipedia) →
jesuisperdu:
Ensō (円相) is a Japanese word meaning “circle” and a concept strongly associated with Zen. Ensō is one of the most common subjects of Japanese calligraphy even though it is a symbol and not a character. It symbolizes absolute enlightenment, strength, elegance, the universe, and the void; it can also symbolize the Japanese aesthetic itself. As an “expression of the moment” it is often...
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“The Whitney recognizes that the financial speculation on art taking place in...”
– Whitney Biennial Breaks with Corporate Sponsors; Apologizes to Participating Artists
Despite the amazingly convincing website and legit appearance of this press release, it is regrettably not real. Instead, it is an incredibly well-executed piece of agit-prop. The perpetrators are as yet unknown....
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W.’s decline is getting worse, he says, as we cross the stadium. He doesn’t work at night anymore, but watches trash TV instead. And now, like me, he’s downloaded Civilization 4. What apalls him, he says, is that he plays Civilization 4 with more seriousness than he works.
Of course, W. knew that the last thing he should ever do is buy Civilization 4. Which meant that he went...
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3:AM Magazine » Literary Melancholy: an interview... →
I am certainly inspired by Robbe-Grillet’s and Sarraute’s famous essays calling for a new novel: for a novel to reject anthropomorphism in its presentation of the world; for a novel to deny the primacy of character; for a novel to present things that Robbe-Grillet describes as ‘hard’, as ‘unalterably, eternally present’, as ‘mocking the “meaning” assigned to them’; for a novel to ‘break away...
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Nude in your hot tub, facing the abyss (A literary... →
Lar’s Iyer’s literary manifesto is fearless, searing, and delightfully overwrought in the grand tradition of all manifestoes — though, of course, in his case this intensity is belated and out of sync, of which he is well aware. He embraces this ridiculousness. I love this guy. A must-read for all scribblers and scriveners and anyone who cares about ~literature today~ <(to be...
Don’t tell us it’s not a class war - The Globe and... →
A totally on-point editorial from The Globe about the ongoing disaster that is the global austerity agenda and how Harper is all too eager to put Canada on the same track. Nothing you didn’t already know, but it’s nice to see someone saying it straight-up in the so-called paper of record.
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ain't safe for work, nope.
beatonna:
Last night I was emailed some porn that someone drew of me because I said a thing on the internet that they disagreed with. Because, there you go, ‘justice.’ When stuff like that comes your way you don’t usually say anything because who gives a fuck, but oh well, let’s do it anyway. So, I’ve seen that shit before because I’ve been on the internet for 100 years, but it always looks...
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Marina Abramovic Turns to Rem Koolhaas to Design... →
The artist Marina Abramovic has selected the architect Rem Koolhaas’s firm, OMA, to design her new performance art center in upstate New York.
The deal, reported by Vulture.com on Wednesday, calls for the firm to transform a former tennis center in Hudson, N.Y., into the Center for the Preservation of Performance Art, a space devoted to pieces that may last several hours or even several days....
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Imagine a writer who has written more books than...
Either impossibly illiterate or impossibly prolific, or both.
Andrew Coyne for the National Post on the Robocall... →
cameronr:
“Ethical standards are fragile enough in politics. Too many partisans view it as war by other means, exaggerating the stakes in order to justify their behaviour to themselves. In the case of the federal Conservatives, that predisposition to expediency is overlaid with a swaggering, bullying style, yet one that betrays a deep insecurity: the insecurity of a party that, for good reasons...
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How I Found the Human Being Behind Horse_ebooks,... →
lukesimcoe:
This is the most important piece of investigative journalism published this year.
I thought this was going to be a pointless killjoy, but it was actually delightful. And the mystery is still kind of intact.
“Still though, when the people are ready for it, liberty cannot be granted, it...”
– Show No Mercy: Build No System | Features | Pitchfork
This is a pretty great interview with Matthew Widener of the political grindcore band Liberteer. I don’t listen to much metal, but if the music is as interesting as this conversation, it’s probably worth checking out.
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Los Angeles Review of Books | THE EXEGETE: ROB... →
Dick’s choice of the name Eldritch to (anti)christen his villainous cyborg signals, I think, a purposeful wedding of the textures and tones of SF with those of Gothic horror. A term redolent of Lovecraftian slime, “eldritch” designates the uncanny quality of even the most advanced technologies, their apocalyptic infestation of the soul. Yet for Dick the decay of human identity under the...
Pop isn't the same as popular (or: Bring on some...
lukesimcoe:
That’s a nice cuddly quote — and a part of me agrees with Mr. Wyatt — but I’ve been reading Bakhtin, Laclau and Mouffe and Habermas all day and need to snark. It’s possible that I have something meaningful to say about this, but it’s also quite likely that this is just the first thing that landed in my crosshairs. Bear this in mind if you choose to read on. I’m also kind of hungry...
Globe and Mail: In search of higher-fat butter →
blownspeakers:
Why it’s so hard to get good butter here.
Well, that was educational. I had no idea what we were missing out on. Who knew we had such prohibitive butter laws in Canada?
“I didn’t like the fact that hierarchies had developed between what people...”
– Robert Wyatt
What a splendid man Robert Wyatt is. It will be a great loss when he passes.
Why Mass Effect is the Most Important Science... →
cameronr:
I will buy a console and all of the Mass Effect games based on this article alone.
Also the trailer for the game looks sweet.
This sounds like THE GREATEST VIDEOGAME OF ALL TIME. I wouldn’t even have dared to imagine a game so awesome. Surely, after reading this article, the actual game could only be a disappointment.
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What should I cook, guys
I just picked up our usual weekly CSA basket and I have so much food. I am very hungry and wish to eat. But there is a nigh-infinite variety of possible things I can make with my supplies. Help me decide on something. I have:
- tons of carrots - tons of new potatoes and small red potatoes - a head of green cabbage - many onions - a yam - a small bunch of kale - three heads of broccoli - red and...
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Tuesday New Release Day!
millionsmillions:
Geoff Dyer on Andrei Tarkovsky; César Aira on unexpected masterwork; Adam Wilson on paraplegic sex addicts; and Lars Iyer on rat plagues. (You know you want to click.)
You won’t learn any more by clicking through other than Cesar Aira, Lars Iyer, Geoff Dyer, and Adam Wilson have new books out today, but hey, it’s a big day.
I’m almost finished Lars...
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You can stop reblogging pics of the new Supreme...
I’ve seen that leather jacket like six times already.
“Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has apparently found rare Joy Division and New Order...”
– Jamie Oliver finds Joy Division and New Order master tapes in restaurant basement | News | NME.COM
So, this happened.
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Kendrick Lamar - cartoon and cereal ft. Gunplay
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I got an invite, so I joined Pinterest →
Now cybercapital can extract even more value from my unpaid affective labour! On the plus side, I’m well on my way to achieving full-spectrum presence across all social media platforms.
Also, since Pinterest is tailor-made (pun intended) for cataloguing your commodity fetishism, I’ll probably be shunting a lot of my #menswear content over there and saving this space for slightly more...
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“When Chocano writes, then, that Downton Abbey is “a fantasy in which an...”
– The Earnestness of Being Grantham – The New Inquiry | Aaron Bady