⌾ Arbitrage | 6 Films

Hello, Normally, on Friday, I send out a newsletter titled ⌾ Recommendations—a short list of things I hope will bring some surplus enjoyment to the people who read it. I did not do that this week because it was a week filled with things that needed my time and attention.

Monday | Truth

5/6/2024 Top of Mind One of the topics that has been on my mind very frequently for many months is the concept of truth throughout the teaching of Lacan. Here are some of the questions that I’ve been considering. 1. What is the relationship between truth and

⌾ Recommendations | 3 Things

Hello, It is Friday. The day I send out a list of things that I hope will bring surplus jouissance to others. |1| READING (Article) – The article The Diminishing Returns of Having Good Taste, by W. David Marx in The Atlantic was interesting. It talked a lot about how the

Thursday | Arbitrage

5/2/24 I spent the early morning hours reading a few articles on The Atlantic. The most interesting one was The Diminishing Returns of Having Good Taste, by W. David Marx. In the past, tastemakers in the worlds of fashion, art, and music established careers through this sort of

Tuesday | Knife

4/30/24 I heard Salman Rushdie interviewed on The Ezra Klein Show this week (Apple Podcasts, NYTimes). In this interview, Rushdie read the following text from his most recent book, a memoir Knife of his being attacked and almost killed in 2022. Klein asked: You write, “This is as

Monday | More on The Iliad

4/29/24 Top of mind: More From The Iliad On Saturday, I posted something inspired by something I read in The Iliad. It focuses on an exchange between Agamemnon and Achilles, which takes place very early in Book One of the text. What happens is this: Agamemnon has used

Saturday

4/27/24 Hello from a Saturday afternoon. Whoever you are and wherever you are, I hope you're doing well. Top of Mind I've been reading The Iliad. I just finished book one (of 24), and there is a scene in it that I keep thinking

◉ Recommendations | 3 Things

Hi, It is Friday! The day I send you a list of things I hope it will bring some surplus jouissance to you. |1| LISTENING (Song/Musician) – The first thing I want to call your attention to is the song In a River by Rostam (Apple Music, Spotify). You can

Dialogue Driven Film

I watched this film last night. Generally speaking, I like dialogue-driven films more than action-driven films. However, I'd never seen 12 Angry Men before. I got caught up in the story and the characters and became very quickly engaged in the story being told. I plan to watch

QCP-018 | Renovations

Content: This episode is recorded outside on the go, so the audio quality is not as high as I would like. I talk about living through home renovations, which I wrote about in this week's ◉ Newsletter. Referenced: Dead cat microphone windscreen