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I've released a new short story, Still Life. It's about having a lady come visit and cleaning up in advance but you still leave a mess which specifically reveals the sort of person you are. And you forgot about the meat in the fridge that's three days past its date.
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there’s a freak on the street filming all the women
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it’s kind of beautiful that all flight attendants are either gay sons or thot daughters. in the skies they are finally free
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this form of protest is cool but belongs to a time when people in power cared about culture. as the cleric said after soleimani’s assassination, who are we meant to kill in return, spongebob? there is nothing public that the authorities aren’t happy to gut, except the roads
Climate activists throw soup at the Mona Lisa in The Louvre.
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love kojima but it is quite funny that he posts all these photos of him meeting celebrities and none of them ever post about meeting him
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I’m fascinated by the already mostly lost ways of life of the post-war world. If you were born in a 30 year stretch you could live this life and be this specific kind of person. Then it went very quickly
My 66th and last “First Day of School”. Since Kindergarten in 1959 my life has been governed every year by the “Academic Calendar”.
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>job is getting hit in the head
>believes in austrian school economics
‘I love private property, and let me tell you something, if you care about your fucking country, read Ludwig Von Mises and the 6 lessons of the Austrian Economic School, motherfuckers!’ -
@moicanoufc
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Best post-fight interview of all time??
Safe to say the Overton window has
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>introduce tuition fees
>make universities reliant on fees from students
>make international students pay more
>universities become reliant on international student fees
>ban international students
genius move mister sunak
We’ve taken action to reduce migration.
Student dependant applications are now down by 80%.
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my favourite lenin anecdote is when he visited an art college and saw all the weirdo avant-garde futurist shit they were doing and he was like “well i don’t get it but at least they’re having fun. i’m old”
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When reading the Odyssey, you must understand Penelope was “on the computer” for ten straight years
Looms are a transitional technology in the development of computers and programming
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first time i’ve ever looked at one of these and wondered what IS going on here
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'Nolan is a dumb guy's idea of a smart guy' is a dumb person's idea of a smart take because he clearly just makes dumb movies and intends to do so. they only look like they're trying to be smart if you are dumb. Interstellar is about Love being a hidden law of nature be fr
Nolan is a pseudointellectual who makes middlebrow blockbusters, but he happens to work in a period in which popular discourse (especially online) is dominated by pseudointellectuals who love middlebrow blockbusters (youtubers, video essayists, podcasters, etc).
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Poetry is the artform I have the most immediate attitude of revulsion towards when it isn’t working. With a lot of other art I have the middling affect of ‘yeah that’s cool, I see it’s doing this and that’ but with poetry the feeling of badness is very intuitive and overpowering.
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I’ve seen some people call this bad writing because it’s more emotionally direct than how most people communicate, which is aggressively missing the point. This is a movie about how two autofiction writers interact in their relationships - yes, it sounds like perfectly written
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wait, you’re into the western marxist tradition AND religious mysticism? you are one crazy chica…
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me when I’m manic once a month and decide to start fixing my life
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new style: deliberately flawed/broken writing with grammar and spelling mistakes AI wouldn’t make, like medieval art which included flaws so as not to aspire to the perfection of God, also to allow the spirit a gap through which to leave the text (ch'ihónít'i)
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The sort of professor with an upper middle class vibe, who lives in a big house, has a certain relaxedness and certainty in their position, who can have 66 consecutive ‘first days of school’ is just not a thing now, right? There are just the remnants of it. So interesting
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not a song but my favourite piece of prose I’ve ever encountered online is this comment left under video footage of a defunct steelworks. I return to it regularly
My favorite thing about human beings are the vulnerable flash autobiographies people leave in the comments under videos of songs on youtube
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'ban the family' - now we're cooking with gas
Idea for online communists: if you replace the word ‘abolish’ with ‘ban’ you could probably get the British public to agree to 90% of your demands
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It’s probably not worth returning to, no reason to treat this as an ideal just because it seems pleasant and a bit romantic. But when you look at the past you forget how contingent some ways of life are: not just the job, but the culture surrounding it, the life you can sustain
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no art on a dead planet? buddy, there’s no art already! as a protest against the sucking out of meaning from public life, which is identical with the endless commodification that has ravaged the world - I fully support all forms of vandalism targeted at the old and ossified
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I think about this also with the era of writers who could do a short story a month and pay their bills. The payment for a short story at a big magazine has simply not budged since the 30s. I don’t really think writers deserve that much leisure, but wow!
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maybe I haven’t read all three volumes of Capital.. But I smoke good. I have a kind heart. And I’m unemployed. at the end of the day that is what matters
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@zoomagahoomaba
I hate being a retvrn guy but the image of intellectuals in jackets with elbow patches who wax lyric to invested, joyous pupils and like write books that no one reads but without really worrying about it because they have tenure and follow their passions is. incredibly attractive
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I don’t understand why people reason themselves into the pit of “you don’t have to do the things you love.” things you love are the one thing you have to do otherwise you waste your life
i think you can actually have a beautiful intellectual and artistic life without allowing assembly line capitalist thinking to structure every aspect of your life
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slightly Bataillean point: animals waste the vast majority of their time. They sit around most of the day, idly grooming themselves or napping. Sometimes they engage in more intense acts of waste, play or hunting. Nature docs absolutely distort this image, by focusing just
Why is every single TV nature programme Darwinian porn? Endlessly about predation and competition: ‘these chicks may look secure but nearby something is hovering etc etc’. Surely if they are supposed to encourage ecological awareness we need far more about cooperative harmony?
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I really do not see any reason to make the conceptual leap of saying ‘ancient people did not have an inner sense like ours’ when what the evidence suggests is that they had a different sense of how to *express* interiority. any assertions beyond that are unfounded
It's actually well sustained by many scholars that the ancients did not have an inner sense similar to ours, that the subject of ancient greece was otherwise individuated. JP Vernant argues that there is no inner-monolog in the Iliad. Achilles for example, when he stops himself
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the reason for studying philosophy is the rush you get when you read something that totally reorients you. I think anyone who has experienced this feeling will recognise it, its like taking a hit. the enjoyment you get from any art but distilled. its just verbal heroin
why study philosophy at all? once the "queen of the sciences" it has been, not surpassed, but rendered irrelevant by more specialized fields of inquiry (linguistics, neuroscience, etc.). however, to not have read Plato, Aristotle, the pre-Socratics, Lucretius, is a disadvantage
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@brit_fox1558
if you create a market where some consumers have to pay more for the same service, it makes sense to sell primarily to those consumers. it would’ve been stupid for universities *not* to do that given the marketisation of higher education. it was always a totally unforced error
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It becomes obvious that we're in a fundamentally different era now when all the diverse ways of life shoved into our brains through movies, TV, books, etc. have ceased to exist and people still try and achieve them and end up vacant and lost as a result.
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dialogue that no human would naturally say. Because Sandra is, in this very moment, *writing* her dialogue - both parties in this dialogue are fictionalising themselves. Samuel literally incited and recorded this argument in order to get material for his autofiction!
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Tenet is on no levels trying to be a smart movie. It's a Bond movie with a sci-fi narrative conceit that the movie tells you not to think about because it makes no sense. its there because it looks cool.
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u kind of just have to accept this in video games. they’re an art form but haven’t been able to take the steps into having an avant-garde and pushing boundaries because the audience and critical sphere is essentially braindead. if a game is anything other than fun it is reviled
So many people not realising Death Stranding entire basic gameplay was inspired by this suggests that game critisism has failed on such a fundemental level that few critiques actually drew the rather important connection between real life and the game.
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And this is a long relationship in which this argument has been rehearsed many times. In any relationship like this, your speaking points are practiced and repeated to the point of perfection. This movie is gesturing exactly towards the performativity of our relationships
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@a_fish_ionado
have no problem with the protest and think it’s good, just think protest’s ability to change things is limited by the cynicism with which the elites function
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Klee grasped what is intuitive in folk art: aesthetics as witticism, parody, and play
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We write ourselves as characters, victims or heroes, and write our partners and loved ones into boxes so they fit into worlds we ourselves project outward. Anatomy of a Fall is about what it means to love and hate when we are the ones who bind ourselves in both situations
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it’s crazy how some people are unable to imagine the inner worlds of other people and take that as a sign that anyone but them is mentally deficient
u ever realize that vast amounts of people have never done like. any sort of introspection. no self analysis. never thought about their actions or thoughts beyond the most basic surface level. it’s terrifying
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listen I do not know whether letby is guilty or innocent but I actually think it’s good that ghoulish youtubers don’t get to interfere in an ongoing murder trial by producing monetised poorly researched videos that prejudice the jury!
"I cannot make a video about this miscarriage of justice because it would be a crime" is not a sentence you should be able to say. I'd have to write it from a sealed offshore bunker
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And being on the computer is like a creative act that winds itself up every day and unwinds itself every night
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6yo: I'm not sure there is such a thing as progress
Me: I - what?
6: I don't know if there's progress that you can save
Me: I'm sorry but I don't understand
6: On my Sonic game. I don't know if it saves my progress or not
Me: Ohhhhhh I get it. Does that bother you?
6: Not really!
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on competition they create the impression that nature is a zero-sum game, that it’s a closed system where you need to fight over scraps of energy. Actually, everything is in excess, and life is a way to spill that excess energy out into new domains.
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will you people shut up
Tag yourselves
Im CryptoHegelian Deleuzian
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find it really funny when ‘writers’ self-flagellate about how they can never bring themselves to write and how it’s always so daunting and how they get writers block and can never finish anything and then say that’s a universal condition of writers. Ok well I actually write stuff
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Officially got the offer, in August I will be an English teacher in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia :)
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the guy is good at making dumb middlebrow movies! there are definite flaws in his filmmaking but trying to be too clever is not one of them. do you not remember him doing a ‘hero appears from behind the departing car’ trick with fucking Einstein. this shit is stupid
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I think that’s a good thing. A lot of movies I can only muster a middling reaction and a basic interpretation. That’s a lot of stuff that just really isn’t doing anything. With poetry anything that isn’t doing anything smells bad and you can tell from the next room over.
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“what were you before you met me?”
“I was drowning in the bog”
A pause.
“and what are you now?” he whisperer, sinking
“bog ”
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this shit makes me go wild. so many cultural syncretisms fading into the background in the span of time. we barely know anything about these guys. they were probably the coolest people to ever live
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we’re back
the job market is awesome i applied for like 100 jobs and didn’t even get an interview and the first offer i got was in mongolia so now i’m moving to mongolia
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One thing I’ve found interesting in The World Turned Upside Down is the number of people who lived in forests and marshes in 1600s England pre-enclosure and fen draining. It was a way to live a free life. No church, no Lord. Just your hut and your community in the forest.
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tragic: I don’t like annotating books because I find my thoughts ugly and disruptive when I return later but I hate reifying books and treating them as sacred objects. only middle ground is to not annotate books but to generally fuck them up. tearing out pages and eating them
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perfect amount of correct to be is 70%. aiming above this is hubris. a little over a fourth of the things you say should derive from your finite and flawed nature
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we no longer live under capitalism.. Now; we live under Crapitalism (verso books 2023)
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@zoomagahoomaba
I like to believe that society can support people living like this with no downsides, no need to austerity-max everything. leisurely, contented work feels like what society should strive towards. minmax hell came into effect and now u are in an assembly line no matter what you do
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@albee_et
when you endlessly shuffle around the same ten topics for years without saying anything interesting or real you eventually end up with something like ‘dasha from red scare and leftist ronald reagan’
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@brit_fox1558
it was economically sensible because they pay £6000 more per year and demand for UK unis is huge and inflexible worldwide. if you're going to marketise unis (which I'd rather they didn't!) that extra 6k shouldve been something like a tourism tax going straight to public services
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the job market is awesome i applied for like 100 jobs and didn’t even get an interview and the first offer i got was in mongolia so now i’m moving to mongolia
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the male selfie is not menacing or a cry for help. the male selfie is joie de vivre, divinity, immanence
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using all the time you have outside of your shitty ass job to passionately pursue creation and joy is not assembly line thinking. it’s mind over matter, having some grit
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@faqvarl
It does seem to go for the ‘clever hard sci fi’ angle at first so I get why ppl think it’s trying to be smart.. but the message is Love brings us all together <3 even in space <3 the man is in his feels let him be
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old people be like oh you believe in romance and goodness and vitality and life? lol wait until you've wasted half your time on earth like me
Being friends with people in their 20s can be entertaining just for the fact some that some of them still think they’re Important and you can watch it dawn on them in real time
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next update we're patching the bug where poetry appears in the mundane. it shouldnt be doing that
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we know that speakers of proto indo europeans used double doors because the languages deriving from proto indo european all preserve a lost dual case in their word for door. not really relevant but I think it’s cool
I'm not a prescriptivist but English really needs to get over the "pants/shorts/scissors/glasses... are pairs" vibe. They clearly are NOT. Either practically or conceptually and insisting they are is making everyone's life harder
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inner monologue discourse is sheer dumbassery. I am simply unconvinced that language is precise enough for us to designate different subjective experiences of that nature. we have no way of knowing that we mean the same thing by ‘internal monologue’ or ‘mental images’
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@finelylesberg
funnily enough it often isnt even stem people doing this. its journalist types who presumably studied either journalism or english/history at uni. they dont even have an excuse to not understand the words!
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I want worse books with worse morals made by people who are actively evil and im not even joking
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@milofux
Agree fully, and I’m on the side of all forms of protest. I think stuff like this has a function also in drawing in activists, people who are inspired and willing to do similar things themselves. My cynicism is directed more at those in charge, not activists:)
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holy shit
staring drunkenly at the splayed-open chip bag on our table at the bar and was so struck by its beauty I took a photo and it really is that beautiful
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became good enough at writing that women become more attracted to me when they read my work
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can’t lie idgaf
EVEN IF YOU'RE NOT GOING OUTSIDE YOU STILL EXPERIENCE INDIRECT LIGHT INDOORS WHICH STILL HAVE AN IMPACT ON YOUR SKIN FROM aging to wrinkles to sunburn to even skin cancer. unless you live in a place with no windows and no indirect light, you should wear sunscreen!!!!!
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@giveanonion
agree entirely. I think there’s too much of a focus on naturalism in acting, hence all the pointless method acting some stars do. acting should serve the story being told - in this case, it’s more important that we hear the characters speaking very honestly ab what’s true to them
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"uohhh 'abolishing' the family means retaining its essential characteristics... because you see Hegel.." no we're banning it. hand over grandma
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I feel like this is a very fraught question but anecdotally a lot of the dudes I know who read but don’t have a formal humanities education are way more attracted to works that are ‘canonical’/revered in a memey way
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@owenpattaylor
I have a suspicion that none of them are important, they’re maybe 10 years too late for, and the important people are somewhere we haven’t even heard of yet
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I’ve been thinking of producing writing like this for a while. Something like a tiny accessory that reveals text in an interesting way, maybe some sort of puzzle is involved in opening it. Maybe a new direction for textuality, like adorned Mediaeval manuscripts
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the situationism subreddit is entirely populated by people posting about their bad situationships and the replies always offer sincere advice while segueing into recommending society of the spectacle
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god it’s sad isn’t it
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@OprahDid911
it has like a realistic modelling of what a black hole would look like and does some cool things on exoplanets with weird physics. but the basic thrust of the movie is time travel motivated by love being a higher dimension than space and time lol
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@moonbeeaam
you’re right, I would say generally the museum is a depoliticised space designed to convey an abstract reverential awe for culture/heritage. france is especially invested in that sort of thing. these protests try to repoliticise such places - since there is really nowhere left to
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Kiefer’s Finnegans Wake exhibit last year
As it’s Anselm Kiefer’s birthday, these are from the incredible temporary installation at Palazzo Ducale in Venice a couple of years ago
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