Apparently the prestigious education afforded to one at the great University of Chicago doesn't allow for even remedial education on literary history, or one would at the very least be aware that "magical realism" is a genre discussed as early as 1918 by Viktor Shklovsky
Rewatched Tár on the plane, Cate Blanchett talking about Charles Ives and Edgard Varése really turns me on
Seeing tenured professors tweet "when I was a PhD student back in 2003 my stipend was $25,000 and I was fine!" And like ok, well some of us still only make $25,000 in the year of our Lord 2026
Thought I recovered from my illness today but I ended up throwing up 4 more times: spent $2000 to fly to a different country, get sick, miss the conference and just lay around dying
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I have inappropriate thoughts on my mind but I shall refrain from sharing to preserve my image as a respectable and distinguished individual.
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Been up for 32 straight hours, just gonna pass out on this double decker bus and see where I end up
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I love getting to the airport 6 hours early! I love walking around the terminal 17 times! I love waiting!
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Millions must read Reinhard Kühnl's „Formen bürgerlicher Herrschaft. Liberalismus, Faschismus.“
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I can only imagine the moral crusade against "shyness" and the violent partisans of forced sociality are one and the same in the systemic war decadent capitalism wages against introspection and interiority; a purely relational form of subjectivity dictated by the culture industry
Every weekend carries with it a particular form of late melancholy in which I am confronted with the fact that I have nothing in life. Nothing. I could die any moment and it wouldn't matter to anyone or anything. A completely forgettable and worthless existence
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The derisive attitude towards critics uncritically accepted by many people seems to be an expression of their recognition and tacit shame of being intellectually incurious & who rather lazily consume the work of art in a manner functionally indistinguishable from sports fandom
Got invited back to a friend's family's Thanksgiving this year, I guess bringing my Blu-ray of "The Daytrippers" and saying "we should watch this" every 15 minutes wasn't as big of a turn off as I suspected
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Happy Noirvember everyone bask in the beauty of Gene Tierney in Otto Preminger's "Laura" (1944)
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