David Auerbach on literature, philosophy, film, etc.
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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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
My picks of live albums that are either superior or substantively equal-but-different to their studio counterparts. A rare breed.
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.
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John McAfee makes Kim Dotcom look like Linus Torvalds. t.co/LKoKUimh
@siobhanphillips I am seeing more uni press books with working indexes though, which is nice.
@siobhanphillips A prof friend had to pay $1000+ herself for the rights to excerpt poems in her major-university-press book. #doom
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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"Those who live in the present but who harbor no doubts about the structure of authority, those whose anger does not drive them to delve into the essentials, and those whose approach to their art raises no questions, all of these must renounce their status as artists."
—Masayuki Takayanagi
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