Notebook

Notebook

This category is stuff that I come across in stuff I read, or watch, or listen to, and don’t want to forget. It’s also a record of thoughts that make up my head noise.
24
Feb

[Re-Description] Bittersweet

Reading Anne Carson's Wikipedia page, Eros the Bittersweet – Carson's first book of criticism, published in 1986
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23
Feb

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
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22
Feb

Monster

I found this sentence/information in Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors by Ian Pecman. The word monster has its etymological roots
15
Feb

[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&
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14
Feb

[Reading] Ian Penman on using theory as an autodidactic

From an interview with Ian Penman done for Interview Magazine by Sarah Nicole Prickett. PRICKETT: Your pieces for NME are
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13
Feb

The more accelerated our life becomes…

The text below is from The Novel of the Future by Anaïs Nin. The more accelerated our life becomes, the
12
Feb

Being enchanted with the quotidian

Also, from The Convivial Society email newsletter, which was sent out this week and I already blogged about here: In
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11
Feb

A public sort of thinking process

In his email newsletter Carton Gravity Julian Simpson, wrote: As of today, I am setting up a reminder to post
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10
Feb

Information density & time

The text below is the opening paragraph of The Convivial Society email newsletter, which was sent out this week: Here’
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08
Feb

Pro wrestling & jouissance

From an article on Wrestling Inc. on the work that Al Snow is doing at OVW: I'm also
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