Asya
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co-conspirator / PhD student in english & performance studies @uchicagoGSU / editing @chireview @readlux
Joined October 2012
i don’t know that i want an orange until i see and smell the orange. i need someone to realize that i might want an orange (from my behavior), peel the orange, cut the orange, and pretend to want it for themselves so i can “independently” form a desire for the orange. it’s simple
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i walk into the cobbler. i put my shoes on the table and say hello good afternoon. mr cobbler approaches. beat. “italian or jewish?”
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deeply glad to see my short piece on our eternal comrade joshua clover’s final published poem (which appeared in @proteanmag last year) out in the world today; grateful to the wonderful folks at @chireview for their editorial care 🖤🖤
Here, Dominick Knowles (@multiwhirl) pays homage with a close reading of Clover's final published poem, "Poem (Sept 26, 2023)," first published in Protean Magazine, where Knowles edits the poetry section. Read the full in memoriam on our website:
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sometimes when i really don’t want to write i imagine myself as a mouse who is jumping with her whole weight on each individual key to type. and then i move myself to tears…
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NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani learns of former Vice President Dick Cheney's death while voting in Queens, November 2025.
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Who is our favorite Commedia dell’Arte character? 2,500 Americans polled: Columbine: 0% Scaramouche: 0% Pulcinella: 0% Pantalone: 0% il Dottore: 0% Don’t know: 100%
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🚨Breaking: @Harvard just announced massive cuts to dozens of its PhD programs, citing “financial pressure.” - Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75% - Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60% - Social Sciences by 50–70% - History by 60% - Biology by 75% - The German
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MTC has partnered with @chireview for a pitch workshop on October 9 @ 6pm ET. Want to try your hands in public writing, not sure how to approach editors, how to pitch your ideas? Join us to learn more about our publications as well as general conversations on best practices.
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intriguing film "Safe" (1995), written & directed by Todd Haynes, with Julianne Moore in the role of a Sherman Oaks woman (i.e., kewpie doll-like wife of wealthy executive) who becomes progressively ill from her polluted Southern California environment. a nuanced performance by
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overheard an undergrad saying that doing a PhD is like “going to unc college” 💔
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Missing the 2010s frozen yogurt boom like a bitch right now
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such a shame that the gender category of “broad” has fallen out of fashion… each view on that clip of patti lupone singing anything goes at the 1988 tony awards is a cry for broads…
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if i lose another chess match against my 70 year old neighbor i can literally never show my face on the beach again
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girlfriend says they “developed an unprecedented amount of empathy for eric adams” after they had their first 3-course meal in turkish airlines basic economy
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removed from its context this becomes quaint curmudgeonism, but adorno is talking about th savage complicity that pervades everyday actions when their everyday-ness is attained by ignoring the growing+unbroken catastrophe, something worth thinking abt right now
“Every visit to the cinema leaves me, against all my vigilance, stupider and worse.“ - Theodor Adorno
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