in french Spongebob is translated literally as "bob l'éponge", while patrick star is, of course, "patrick étoile" but squidward, for some reason, is called "Carlo"
I am devastated. My students—who have only experienced education systems which value grades and testing and nothing else—do not come to my class with a liberal humanist mindset seeking education and culture for its own sake.
discovered /r/gooncaves. top posts of all time suggest it’s total amateur hour. they’re supposed to be craven maximalist porn addicts and the best they can manage is playing porn on three monitors and haphazardly placing porn posters on their walls. no sense of artistry. boring!
film camera nerds are always like shot on 200 year old kodak gold 900 that i found in the black sea and dried on a tree in chernobyl and had developed on the international space station. and then the pictures are just empty midwestern parking lots
marxists are mad that nolan's oppenheimer attributes 'property is theft' to marx after claiming to have read all three volumes in the original german but it's honestly really marxist of him to posture like that
Pop philosophy books in America: 48 Rules to Extract Wealth from Your Friends and Relatives
Pop philosophy books in France: Le Manifeste of the Left-Nitzchéen Spinoziste
while it’s funny and easy to work around on a website, the law is actually quite evil as immigrants won’t be able to receive public services in english after their first 6 months here which is completely deranged
It’s so funny how whenever bookish people visit NYC they go to the B&N in Union Square or The Strand when Albertine literally exists and is across from the Met
québécois people in the sixties discovering fanon, memmi, césaire and then choosing to believe they were the “white n-words of north america” will never not be hilarious
from what i understand goon culture is all about parallel play: from gooner:porno (the gooner parallel plays with porn, which itself literally plays in parallel with even more porn ), but also gooner:gooner (the gooner plays in parallel with other gooners via reddit)
suddenly remembering i’ve been to this kind of country bar once outside ottawa and it literally felt like being in twin peaks. there was a mechanical bull.
want to write a think piece on the way the term "twink" has become completely meaningless in its adoption by bookish intellectual men who want a proximity to hotness
just saw 3 schoolgirls running a lemonade stand. didn’t buy anything, of course. you don’t want to encourage petit-bourgeois inclinations in suburban youth
being a french intellectual in the 70s was so easy all you had to say was « maoisme was like le religion » and you’d get book deals for the rest of your life
somehow only just now learning about factory 798, a great leap forward industrial complex designed in the bauhaus style by east german architects which was repurposed during the deng era by contemporary artists for galleries and studios cause of cheap rents
imagine it’s the forties you read benjamin’s angelus novus thesis and you’re like this goes hard—so you spend days of your life scouring for a print of the klee only to find out he was talking about this
I got annoyed when I heard today that some students are learning about Marx's Capital without the criticisms that can reasonably be made of it. And not just for what he overlooks, but in terms of his own explanations. So I just typed this up at the end of class. Took me 5 minutes
its so funny when a discipline writes its own history there’s always a fake genealogy all the way back to ancient greece with a massive 2000 year gap in between and nobody actually believes in it but goes through the motions of saying it anyway