incredible that Soderbergh has done every single one of these (uncredited stunt double for Rebel Wilson in pitch perfect 2)
incredible that Soderbergh has done every single one of these (uncredited stunt double for Rebel Wilson in pitch perfect 2)
I seek the Venn diagram so small that my audience could fit in a utility closet
Vernon Lee is 90% Merleau-Ponty?
no but seriously read Zorgβviolence, maternity, infidelity, deception, Chopinβs-The-Awakening-by-way-of-colonial-Guyana
it seems to be available at just a handful of libraries around the world, but thereβs a cheap Apple Books version and a paperbackβwell worth!!
www.thriftbooks.com/w/zorg-a-sto...
paying a nominal fee for a library digitization
Thrilled to be included among fabulous contributors to the latest edition of Dilettante Army, βEkphrasis.β
Read on for speculations about AI boyfriends, avant-garde burlesque shows, killer machines, and the Freudian death drive.
dilettantearmy.com/articles/ekp...
*vibrating in Merleau-Ponty*
wake up at 3 AM. find it impossible to get back to sleep. read Ode to a Nightingale to pass the time. think of sudden amazing insight about poem. fall asleep, completely forget insight
Image of a substack post showing a cyanometer, a tool to measure the intensity of blue in the sky. Its caption attributes the cyanometer to Horace Benedict de Saussure, whose great-grandson is the linguist Ferdinand de Saussure.
great-grandfather to ferdinand de saussure. signification dynasty
wish i knew
Congrats!
Thanks so much!
Iconic exercise in the heresy of the paraphrase
Thanks so much!!! Zany is the goal!!!
Thanks so much to @ayeshaasiddiqi.bsky.social for caring so deeply about this piece and to @stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social, of course, for everything!!
I wrote for @newinquiry.bsky.social about the psycho-political agons of 90s sitcom neighbors like Kimmy Gibbler, Steve Urkel, and co.βwhy they showed up, why they were thrown out, and why they kept coming back. Give it a read!
thenewinquiry.com/new-neighbor...
Thanks so much to @ayeshaasiddiqi.bsky.social for caring so deeply about this piece and to @stephaniedegooyer.bsky.social, of course, for everything!!
Broadly IMO novels and films arenβt the main mediums for Developing Thought rn, soapbox-style arguments areβsocial media posts, essays, reels, etc. most ppl writing novels or making film are getting their political thought from those, which is why didactic art often has hammy literalistic speeches
I think this is true in one way but it also seems right-wing art is also deeply didactic (ranging from heavyhanded jokes about SJWs in Tim Allen sitcoms to βClassical Manβ Twitter accts saying that Objectively Good Art is Moral and Edifies the Soul)
this is my specialty!!
- Guillory, The Memo and Modernity
- Maurice Lee, Overwhelmed
- Nunberg, Farewell to the Information Age
- Richard Menke, Telegraphic Realism
- Lisa Gitelman, Raw Data" is an Oxymoron
- Peters and Cmiel, 'Promiscuous Knowledge'
- Eric Hayot's intro to 'Information: a Reader'
This Man is My Dad
kind of gobsmacked by the volume of βso clever, so true, so sadβ comments about aβ¦.free association of major news topics?
Congratulations!!
I still have the abstract art-doodles you made when I gave the protozoic version of this essay at NAVSA 2022!!
An adult jellyfish becomes a fertilized egg???
My article βThe Form of Information and Informational Form in The Woman in Whiteβ was published in Studies in the Novel (@studiesinthenovel.bsky.social)βgive it a read!!
muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
"Victorian Studies: Who Cares?" Come to the Victorians Institute 2025 conference at Furman University in Greenville, SC this Sept 14-15. CFP deadline now May 31. Please submit and share! vi2025.wordpress.com
And finally, the worst of them all, the Duke Blue Devil, who is inexplicably not the Chalk World character implied by the logo but rather a discount version of The Tick