Close Reading & Psychoanalytic Listening
In the article Close Reading Is For Everyone, Dan Sinykin writes,
So what is close reading? As my co-editor and
Reading so far in 2025
Here is a list of books I've read so far this year:
* The Night in Gethsemane: On Solitude
Repetition, return, & connections becoming clear
A paragraph I enjoyed a lot from Craig Mod's TBOT.
Had you told us back then, that the
TBOT: Good Sentences
Today, my copy of Things Become Other Things (TBOT for short), by Craig Mod arrived.
I just read the preface,
◎ Arbitrage | 2 Things
It has been some time since the last time one of these got posted/sent out, but I have found
The Dems as HR department
I've been reading a lot about the election and why the results were what they were. Many of
A new “Hello world!”
From The Journal 1837-1861 by Henry David Thoreau.
Oct. 22 [1837] "What are you doing now?" he asked.
On going on
From A Single Man, by Christopher Isherwood.
The creature we are watching will struggle on and on until it drops.
[Reading] Ribbonfarm
Writing on his blog Ribbonfarm, Venkatesh Rao says,
I was asked in a DM conversation whether I use AI for
⌾ Recommendations | 3 Things
Hi,
It is Friday when I send out an email about things that bring some surplus jouissance to my life.
