Ryan Ruby
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Novel: The Zero and the One @twelvebooks 2017 | Poem: Context Collapse @7StoriesPress 2024 | Nonfiction: Ringbahn @fsgbooks 2027
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41 months and 45,100 (!) posts later, my first "some personal news" tweet:
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Raise your hand if you're unaware of this
Are people just unaware Biden has dedicated his entire State Department to pursuing a ceasefire for many months?
What do you think our Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has been doing with these repeated trips to the Middle East? Pretending to work?
It's already our policy.
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"loaded onto the backs of trucks" "numbers written on their arms" "separated the men from the women and children"
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The claim that US media would have covered a self-immolation differently if it had been undertaken in protest of one of the country’s adversaries is not hypothetical.
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In my undergrad philosophy club (I know, I know) there was one rule: you were not allowed to use proper names (e.g., Kant) or terms (e.g., the categorical imperative) when making arguments. Incredibly useful exercise, and you can tell who never had to do it.
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If you are graduating in May you have lived through events like the Afghanistan War (ages 0-19), the Iraq War (ages 1-12), the Financial Crash (age 6), and the Covid-19 pandemic (ages 17-22). You may know people who have died in school shootings, of fentanyl overdoses, or Covid.
A generation that has grown up in peace and prosperity jonesing for the rush of having their own version of the 1960s, and looking desperately to shoehorn every cause into a replay of what they think their boomer grandparents were doing
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Just to be clear what happened here: a representative of the state held a show trial that lead to the forced resignation of a private citizen over first amendment protected speech.
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Susan Sontag, 14 September 2001. She was pilloried for stating this very obvious truth.
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An extensive intra-urban electric railway system
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That "20 years after his death, Edward Said seems like a prophet" headline is driving me crazy. It's not that Said was a prophet, it's that we still haven't fixed the problem he was writing about.
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lol good luck america you're really in for one
The day after Cormac’s passing, Blood Meridian is
#8
(out of *all* books) on Amazon and will hit the New York Times Paperback Bestseller list next week.
For the first time in its nearly 40-year history, Blood Meridian will be a Bestseller.
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The single most meaningful human experience cannot be planned in advance, cannot be optimized, or hacked, or gamed, and the people who believe otherwise are the people it tends not to happen to.
Hot take:
Don’t fall in love from 22-29, there’s to much to lose.
Your career will thank you.
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That the South African legal team is contextualizing their genocide case in terms of the whole history of the occupation and Israel’s pattern of flagrantly violating international law since 1948 is already a victory for truth and the historical record.
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Fundamental mistake to think that when you write a book what you are creating is a book. In fact, what you are creating is yourself. Why people decide to cheat themselves out of this experience is beyond me.
as an architecture critic, this, from the Verge AI writing piece, makes me so sad :(
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Germany is not efficient, it’s methodical. Outsiders often confuse these two characteristics.
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Germany is a good place to be Jewish. Unless, like me, you’re a Jew who criticises Israel | Germany | The Guardian
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RIP Baudrillard you would have loved this digitally manipulated image laundered by a monarchy to do damage control for a non-story about a pseudo-event
No comment from Kensington Palace tonight after at least 3 international pictures agencies refuse to distribute this morning’s photo of Kate and her children. Some of them (
@AP
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there is a phrase Americans use for this when it happens in other countries and they do not mean it as a compliment
The National Guard searching bags at the entrance to the Grand Central subway station. Earlier today Kathy Hochul announced she would send 750 National Guard members to subway stations throughout NYC.
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Yes you are a person who has an instinctive affinity for power and an instinctive disgust of those who resist power. That’s why you have the job you have.
I would rather - by an order of magnitude - spend time with these cops than with the kids in that protest
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The reason fiction is and will always be regarded as dangerous is because its fundamental premise is that the world could be different than it is.
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"A German is someone who cannot tell a lie without believing it himself." --Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia
"The accusations being made against Israel are absurd."
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says Israel is acting in accordance with international law in defending itself against Hamas.
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everyone hates on magnolia, but this was not only tom cruise's peak performance, it was an astute inference from the present about the ugliness of the future.
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Honestly, one of the revelatory things about this past month is, despite its reputation, how bad German Holocaust education actually is.
"The fact that the Holocaust can’t be explained by theories of imperialism" is an absolutely insane thing for anyone, especially a German, to suggest. Lebensraum was the justification for basically everything the Nazis did, including the Holocaust
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Sally Rooney on Ireland, Biden, and Gaza with exemplary moral clarity and argumentative rigor.
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Wonder what Ireland and Palestine, on the one hand, and Britain and Israel, on the other, have in common
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You don’t really care for music do you
Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" is hot garbage.
There, I said it.
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Happy Nobel Prize week to all who observe. This is your reminder that, in October 1922, Proust, Joyce, Woolf, and Rilke were all alive and publishing major work. The prize that year went to Jacinto Benavente.
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let us pause for a moment and remind ourselves how insane it is that institutions that are nominally devoted to education have investment portfolios, and that these portfolios include investments in corporations that profit off of death, destruction, and human misery.
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The author is Adania Shibli. The book is MINOR DETAIL. It is published by
@NewDirections
in the US and
@FitzcarraldoEds
in the UK. In Elisabeth Jaquette’s translation it was a finalist for the NBA and longlisted for the International Booker.
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Dante's theory was that we are not punished *for* our actions and convictions, we are punished *by* them. Hell is not a place where you go after death when you've done wrong, it is the way doing wrong blots out your soul while you are still living.
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"The Chinese have fused their government and industry together so that they cooperate to achieve the ends of the state" whereas the Americans have fused their government and industry together so that they cooperate to achieve the ends of industry.
"Imagine you woke up tomorrow morning and you saw a news report that China had distributed 100 million sensors around the United States... That's precisely what TikTok is," Klon Kitchen, who worked in the U.S. intelligence community, said in 2020.
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"I'm a non-marxist communist." "actually maybe I am a posadist." no what u r is an american between the age of 18 and 25
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The secret sauce is living in a city with public transportation.
people working 9/5 who've read more than 30 books so far this year... What's your secret??
Spill 🤨
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Whatever else you might want to say about it, the Carlson-Putin interview is a fascinating window into the misrecognitions that occur when a person steeped in an ahistorical culture and a person steeped in a historical culture attempt to communicate with each other.
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Today is such a time when the project of interpretation is reactionary, stifling. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world--in order to set up a shadow world of 'meanings.' Interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. --Susan Sontag
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more people should read this
are you lazy and undisciplined, or are you just exhausted from constantly coercing yourself into doing things that are misaligned with your true values and desires?
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We cried about 'Fast Car' because we know they don't make it.
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Well, old sport, to show you what happens when you let a bunch of people who think modern art is degenerate run your country, here’s a photo of Potsdamer Platz in 1945.
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True story. The first time I finished Moby-Dick was on a train from Lausanne to Paris in December, 2003. I closed the book, covered myself in my jacket, and fell asleep in the empty compartment. I was woken up some time thereafter by the loud, phlegmy coughing of an old man. 1/x
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Yet again struck by Sally Rooney’s immense talents as an essayist, which are overshadowed by her fame as a writer of average novels.
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remember when it was mainstream liberal opinion that people who quote holy books as precedent for the wholesale slaughter of innocent civilians were religious extremists who had no place in the modern, civilised, democratic world.
Netanyahu: "You must remember what Amalek has done to you, says our Holy Bible"
1 Samuel 15:3
"Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass"
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good luck, Chris.
What dense 700-page Pulitzer Prize-winning history book should Chris Nolan adapt for film next?
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Oh did that unthinkable nightmare scenario that everyone predicted was going to happen happen?
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Interviewer: What are you protesting, sir?
Protester: We're here to protest the WEF-Communist 15 minute cities program.
Interviewer: How do you feel?
Protester: Great! I'm out in the street. I'm walking. I'm seeing friends, meeting new people. Why can't we do this all the time?
Hundreds of people out in Oxford marching against “15 minute cities.” Almost impossible to overstate the radicalism of middle class car owners.
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INTERVIEWER: Can you explain this gap in your résumé?
T.S. ELIOT: Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the Shadow
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Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905)
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of course it didn't happen in a vacuum. it happened when a state decided that certain people's lives were inherently less valuable than others', stripped them of their rights, imprisoned them and set out to systematically exterminate them. what do you think we are fighting about.
Hi UN Secretary General
@antonioguterres
. Did this place also not happen in a vacuum? Asking for 6 million friends …
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According to the Economic Policy Institute, approximately $50 billion in wages are stolen by employers every year, just under four times the amount of money lost annually by retailers to shoplifting.
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The tale of an owl who becomes a folk hero when he frees himself from gilded captivity to make his way through the world on his own terms only to be felled in his prime by the unsurmountable obstacles of capital. An American Tragedy.
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Fun fact. The T.S. Eliot Prize, arguably the most prestigious award for poetry in the United Kingdom, is financed by the royalties the estate earns from Andrew Lloyd Webber's CATS.
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Regarding Rupi Kaur. I think it's refreshing after doing umpteen rounds of "are we allowed to like a good writer with bad politics" we're finally doing the variation "are we allowed to like a bad writer with good politics." Even though it's the same error.
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Mark Fisher (2009)
At what point did culture just stop… like why is no one interested in developing new art / culture / sound… when is the exact moment this happened
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Sontag was educated at Berkeley, Chicago, Harvard, Oxford, and the Sorbonne.
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All great literature is truly strange
moby-dick is so much weirder than anyone could have prepared me for. why does a random chapter begin with a stage direction
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We have now reached the perverse state of affairs in Germany where affiliates of the group Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West (PEGIDA) are holding readings of Victor Klemperer's Language of the Third Reich in Dresden to show solidarity with Israel.
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firmly ensconced in my echo chamber, looking at this polling data
It's been rather astonishing to watch just how badly much of the far-left is miscalculating this moment. It has never been more clear how many of them are firmly ensconced in echo chambers, and it is doing them no favors. Quite the opposite.
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Guernica is a depiction of a defenceless civilian population being bombed by an airforce. Picasso did not intend for its viewers to empathize with the pilots.
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The price of supporting a cruel and hateful project is to become cruel and hateful. There is no greater corruption of the self than this.
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Speaking of erasing history, I've learned quite a bit about Lord Balfour since his portrait was destroyed.
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Your journal article is not radical, it does not contain the seeds of capitalism's future destruction, it will not save the world, protect anyone from violence, or feed a single hungry person. But it may help someone understand something. So maybe focus on that.
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The reason the person in question is getting special shit for working at Lockheed Martin is that their online brand is harassing people for infrathin—and frankly, imaginary—infractions of their personal social justice discourse code, no need to overthink it.
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The thing about Moby-Dick is that Melville gave himself 6 months to write what he originally envisioned as a very straightforward adventure story. Then in the middle of the process he was touched by the finger of god and knocked out the book we know today in another 12 months.
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The horrific death counts of Stalinism and Maoism are often cited as discrediting communism, but they pale in comparison to British colonialism in its high capitalist era.
The British empire caused 165 million deaths in India in 40 years. A new study found that British colonialism caused approximately 165 million deaths in India from 1880 to 1920. The British stole $45tn in just over 200 years.
This is what the empire was really like, starvation
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No it’s indicative that Edward Said was a scholar of literature and Orientalism completely changed how we understand literature.
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This conversation between Said and Rushdie was recorded in 1986.
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I hope every left magazine publisher is looking at what's happening at Artforum and asking themselves how they can hire the editors who are quitting. These are the people of courage and principle we want running our culture.
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Earlier this year I argued that we're living in a golden age of popular criticism. To prove my point (and now that it's December, to get in on the Year in Review racket) here is the tip of the iceberg: my list of 21 of the best essays, reviews, and criticism published in 2021.
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Nabokov’s prose style may have been florid, but it was always precise. Failed imitators are so preoccupied with the former that they forget about the latter. The difference in the quality of the prose that results may be likened to the difference between “mauve” and “purple.”
Hello, would you like to read a terrible opening paragraph that will cause you physical pain? Don’t worry, The Cut has got you as ever…
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“As society grew more corrupt, notions of morality became increasingly refined.” —Marcel Proust
Let’s talk Friendultery.
Friendultery, or platonic cheating, is when one friend isn’t fully honest with another friend about a second friendship.
The convo on healthy communication in polyamory has been great, but platonic relationships need to be centered, too!
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In case you were still under the illusion that the US and Israel care about the hostages.
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If you met someone who insisted they hated poetry, what poem would you read to them to change their mind?
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"to say that this is a strategic targeting of Hamas is an insult to our intellect and humanity"
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So. Regarding Roald Dahl and "sensitivity readers." In case you're wondering why this is happening, a quick google search reveals that the Roald Dahl Story Company (RDSC) was sold along with the author's entire catalogue to Netflix in September 2021 for £370 million.
Bowdlerize, v.: To remove improper or offensive language from a text, especially to the detriment of its quality. From the name of Dr. Thomas Bowdler, who published an expurgated edition of Shakespeare’s plays in 1818.
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ok you gotta hand it to the catholics for this one
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In my life I have interacted with maybe five or six people I’d describe as geniuses and the thing they had in common is that they were all incredibly kind.
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Open the bars
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On the 50th anniversary of Gravity's Rainbow, let us all revisit the greatest epigraph of all time:
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you can drink on the street, smoke in bars, graffiti the walls, vote for actual leftists, be within an hour's flight of 100s of historically significant places, get paid parental leave, free health care, daycare, and education, all without wondering when you're going to get shot.
Europe is substantially poorer, more racist, less dynamic, and MUCH less free than the US
Food is bland, coffee tastes like shit, the weather is mostly awful, their primary cultural export is tourism, and they have less say in the affairs of the world
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this is, for me, the greatest shot in all of cinema. had what I can only describe as an episode when I saw it for the first time in the theater.
Remembering the master Andrei Tarkovsky, who passed away on this day in 1986 ~ Nostalghia (1983)
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If you’re reading a novel and it sounds like a film treatment or a screenplay that’s because its intended audience is a producer.
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With very few exceptions if a book can be spoiled by knowing what happens in it it wasn’t worth reading in the first place.
Since when has it been acceptable to write a book review and include spoilers?
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the drag on the cigarette in the fourth frame 👑
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everything about this cover is incredible
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the failed Hamas rocket attack lie didn't last very long
BREAKING: Al-Jazeera reports that the 🇮🇱 IDF spokesperson says they had warned regarding evacuating the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital as well as five other hospitals
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Me, rejected from every PhD program he ever applied to, watching academics debate what you really ought to have read to qualify as a literature professor.
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Critics who make this genre of argument do not seem to be aware that it's perfectly transparent to readers that they're using a specious political metaphor to provide cover for their own incuriosity, philistinism, and limitations as a critic.
the 7 hour run time of Sátántangó is manspreading, pass it on
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The Iliad
Yuval Noah Harari: we have no idea what to teach young people that will still be relevant in 20 years
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i love it when people log on here and start an imaginary conversation with their superego as if no one can see.
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