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Category: Writing

  • intimidating but also intimate / reflections on formative time in a revenant medium

    Metablogging is the most (self-)indulgent form of blogging—a bit of (self-demonstrating/self-performing) wisdom that was already a well-worn cliche when Technorati was still a thing that people cared about. But we are products of our milieu, are we not? Adam Kotsko would agree, I think—and this reflective bit of his from earlier this week flipped me…

  • all these words have been poisoned, right?

    McKenzie Wark, interviewed at Believer: … in Capital is Dead I wanted to ask the question of how have we innovated language—god, I hate that word, innovate. All these words have been poisoned, right? What’s the art, if I can say that, what’s the literary dimension of writing theory? It’s a genre of literature, Marx…

  • reific(a)tion

  • the efficient universe

    Synchronicity, serendipity, universal ordering… call it what you want, but sometimes you’re working on something, and out of nowhere a useful bit of info just drops into your lap or, in this case, your inbox. Joanne McNeil’s latest newsletter contains this little aside: I was looking for a quote about efficiency in life…something said by…

  • struck by the fact of your own mortality

    From a 1984 Paris Review interview with James Baldwin: INTERVIEWER: This brings us to your concern with reality as being history, with seeing the present shaded by everything which occurred in a person’s past. James Baldwin has always been bound by his past, and his future. At forty, you said you felt much older than…