Author: BROTHER ALIVE /// Work with/in @thedrift_mag, @bookforum, @newyorker, @nplusonemag, @bidoun etc.
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Zain Khalid retweeted
I’m writing a book. It’s called Goonworld. It’s not about gooning. Or it is, metaphorically. But mostly it’s about post-COVID culture writ large—the range of, let’s say, unusual online forms/tendencies that have emerged this decade and that have in various ways altered the texture of contemporary reality. Sort of a travelogue. A journey to the heart of slop etc. Out via FSG eventually!
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In her Issue Eighteen essay, @salihabayrak_ investigates the emergence of celibacy as a self-improvement practice akin to other wellness trends — and what happens when an ancient religious discipline gets secularized.
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To celebrate the publication this week of her debut novella “Three,” Drift contributor and Sally Rooney translator @nazhongwriting spoke to @shrrreya_ about archetypes and desire.
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Peter Hujar’s fame, Max Norman writes in his October column, finally “seems to have caught up with that of his subjects.” What would our narrative about the history of American photography look like if it hadn’t taken so long?
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I’m told Perry Mehrling has passed away. His money and banking course at Barnard was hugely formative for me and many others.
This is an awful year for social thought. And I’m afraid we’re not producing many people of that caliber who can fill the ranks.
Zain Khalid retweeted
Seeing people talk about market socialism, with reference to classic cases for & against, may I also recommend this pretty amazing long Robin Blackburn piece in @NewLeftReview from 1991? Not so much an argument one way or another as a history of the theme newleftreview.org/issues/i18…
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Our Issue Eighteen launch party is this week! Featuring readings from @loracorkelley, @HansonOHaver, @Seamus_Malek, @salihabayrak_, @BenPurkert, Lev Xue, Rosanna Young Oh, Chidima Anekwe, Henri Lipton, and Ismail Ibrahim.
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DIGGER is like being trapped inside a tuba for two hours. vulture.com/article/review-d…
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“Today, it feels like the Muslim community has been seriously politically emboldened.” Read @krithikavaragur’s interview with @AberKawas, poised to become the first Palestinian-American state senator in New York history.
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This, by JM Coetzee, in @Equatormag, about an actual genocide in South Africa, is very good. equator.org/articles/dusklan…
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The past few years have seen a spate of novels, films, and plays featuring content moderators, @loracorkelley writes in a new Issue Eighteen preview. But many of these works give a misleading impression of how the tech industry actually functions.
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Zain Khalid retweeted
Great. So let’s see you compel Israel to dismantle the outpost in Turmus’ayya’s olive fields. Easy peasy.
