Month: March 2022
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the influence of anxiety
Fredric Jameson, clearing his throat before a long piece (from 2007) on the half-centennial of Garcia Garquez’s One Hundred Years Of Solitude: Influence is not a kind of copying, it is permission unexpectedly received to do things in new ways, to broach new content, to tell stories by way of forms you never knew you…
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the chasm between our self-conception and our actual behavior
At THR, a brief bit on moral and ethical clarity under conditions of war by Alan Jacobs: The full implications of our involvement in a truly global economic order have long been invisible to us, because such invisibility has been in the interests of those who most profit from that order. Over the next few…
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weird shit is afoot on Spotify
I have no idea. A friend I showed this to yesterday asked me if I’d listened to it, as it cropped up in my “trending albums for you” feed. I replied that of course I haven’t listened to it; I’m way too scared of banjaxxing my recommendation-algo profile by clicking through on something that shows…
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a recurring theme in literary and cinematic history
This piece by Megan Marz at Real Life references a lot of (contemporary, literary?) fiction that I’m completely unfamiliar with, but in the context of a phenomenon I am more familiar with, and very interested in, as both a writer and a human being: the slipperiness and perpetual redefinition of the word story. The whole…