Lakshmi Padmanabhan

Truly so embarrassing to live with someone while writing a book. They get to see you have life and death struggles with some dumb little words

“What I am arguing is that we understand the extent to which art redeems a repressive social order by offering a wholly imaginary transcendence, a false harmony, to docile and isolated spectators” Allan Sekula still slaps

Good morning, this little book that I edited is now shipping to you! Get your copy at uniondocs.org/product/form...

On the fifth day of COVID we vacuum the mattress and polish the dresser and settle in to our fate

Finally being recognized for my commitment to Rangoon, this means so much

I haven’t yet found a limit, and I think this is an empirical question, so I urge you to experiment. My fav Rangoon is from Shanghai Inn on Damen. They arrive perfect every time with delivery

When life gives you blueberries, etc…

Is it even writing if it doesn’t involve elaborate procrastination baking?

This is partly @annakornbluh.bsky.social fault

I nearly abandoned machines and was going to call you to call Reno, but the machine delivered

Who has written on Lacan’s claim that the drive is montage that I need to read?

But nothing as effective as getting honest feedback on an effort and trying again

she had been modeling it for us in seminar for weeks before papers were due, spending time on specific lines and passages. And each student also had to lead a seminar session in which we worked through an assigned text slowly

Her most successful method would simply be to look at my paper and say, “this is not a close reading”

Ellen Rooney all day!

Switched three machines to finally purchase Magnetic Fields tix between browser crashes and failed captcha. Haven’t felt this alive in years