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Top of mind: Wednesday

28/2/24 | Storms, Doom-Music, Anne Carson, Rage, Grief, & Castration Yesterday was a very warm day. As I was wrapping up my work day, the sky filled with huge thunderheads that were filled with lightning. When the sun went down, the sky was like a strobe light. I stayed

Patti Smith

I became very interested in Patti Smith and whatever she is up to when I picked up her book M Train (Amazon) when it first came out in 2016. When I encountered this book, I had met the woman who is now my wife a little before this, and I

Anne Carson on why we should read classics today

Here is an excerpt From Anne Carson/Antiquity, a collection edited by Laura Jansen. This is Carson being quoted from an interview she gave, where she responds to the idea that teaching classics is relevant because it can teach us to recover something we need today. I don’t feel

⌾ Recommendations | 4 Things

As we approach the end of the week, I'm sending out a list of things that I think will bring you some surplus enjoyment. 1. READING (short): I posted about the beautiful email newsletter, The Convivial Society, written by L.M. Sacasas, a few times this week. Here

[Reading] Fassbinder Thousandsof Mirrors by Ian Penman

These are passages I highlighted in the book Fassbinder Thousandsof Mirrors by Ian Penman because I like them. I don't recall ever feeling particularly English or British or Anglo Saxon or Celtic or whatever; this may have been partly the punkish, puckish spirit of the times, and partly

Could anything become normal?

“Even time travel becomes normal when it’s your day job.” A line from the novel Permafroat by Alastair Reynolds. So far, this is one of the most interesting time travel novels I’ve ever read. (The most interesting time travel book I’ve ever read was The Time Traveler’

Quotidian Things & Stuff 004 | The Vulnerables

Content: This episode is me talking about reading a great book that captures how our quotidian lives can be astonishingly beautiful and the way real (mundane) human drama is more interesting than Hollywood blockbusters. Referenced: - My wife - My book collection - The Vulnerables, by Stigrid Nunez

Lacan on Aristotle

In Seminar VII: The Ethics of Psychoanalysis 1959-1960, Lacan says the following about reading Aristotle: There are no doubt a number of difficulties to be found at the level of the text, and it's digressions and in the order of his arguments. But skip over the passages that

Lacan on Reading & Psychoanalysis

What does Lacan say about the act of reading as a metaphor for psychoanalytic practice? Shoshana Felman offers the following: Lacan's particular perspective on the matter? "It is obvious," says Lacan, "that in analytic discourse, what is at stake is nothing other than what can

Finished | Conversations with Friends, by Sally Rooney

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