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Abandoned People: Shohei Imamura’s Documentaries at Anthology

Six documentaries by Shohei Imamura depict the overlooked and filthy aspects of human existence, the soldiers, prostitutes, and others that form the “heaps of abandoned people.”

Nov, 11 · in Essays
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The Case Worker, by George Konrád

This 1969 novel from Hungary is about a man who works with “the waste products of a society that maintains order by violence,” and what their suffering comes to mean to him.

Nov, 01 · in Essays
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The Galley Slave, by Drago Jančar

A grotesque Slovenian novel of plague and witch trials, set in the 17th century. It chronicles a single man’s psychic dissolution in the face of conflicting chaos and superstition.

Oct, 11
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American Imperfectionism: Siobhan Phillips’ Poetics of the Everyday

Siobhan Phillips’ work of philosophical poetry criticism discusses the structure of time and everyday repetition in four 20th century American poets: Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, and James Merrill.

Oct, 02
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The Authority of Obscurity: Fludd, Hamann, Heidegger, Kripke

The rhetoric of four thinkers who deployed obscurity and confusion to promulgate their beliefs and criticize their opponents. Things have not changed much in 400 years.

Sep, 25
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Top 20 Non-redundant Live Albums

My picks of live albums that are either superior or substantively equal-but-different to their studio counterparts. A rare breed.

Sep, 04
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The Sound of Two Hands Clapping: Georges Dreyfus on Buddhism

Dreyfus’ remarkable book is both a memoir of the fifteen years he spent training as a Ge-luk Tibetan Buddhist monk and a cross-cultural comparison of Buddhist and Western philosophical education.

Aug, 23

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n+1: The Stupidity of Computers

Triple Canopy: Anonymity as Culture

The Mythology of László Krasznahorkai

Hans Blumenberg and His Myth Science Arkestra

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