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24AUG / accessions
This appears to be getting a good reception—for a book billed as technothriller to be reviewed positively at Teh Graun, by no less a discerning gourmand than Adam Roberts, is quite the badge of distinction. But the institution has been meaning to get to MacDonald’s other writings for some time, which has prompted the department…
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thoughts on bear life
A here’s-a-new-site-to-follow post today, courtesy of some passing toot on Mastodon which I failed to bookmark, shame on me. Anyway, the site in question is the Philosophy Bear substack, and the post that had me dump the url into my feedreader is basically just 54 half-formed philosophical thoughts in one long scroll; the now-forgotten tooter—my…
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Skeleton crew: Zone One by Colson Whitehead
I was never much of an enthusiast, to be honest, but I swore off zombie novels for good after being obliged to read the execrable World War Z during my Masters. But last year I read and greatly enjoyed Harlem Shuffle, and figured that it would be worth seeing what Colson Whitehead could do with…
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the distinction that now counts for me
… the distinction that now counts for me is not between critical and creative practices, or between aesthetic and other uses of literature. It is between work done to please power, and work done in the face of death. Irina Dumitrescu https://creativecritical.net/why-im-no-longer-a-proper-academic/
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16AUG23 / accessions
An impulse acquisition, of which the department was notified by the institution as the latter departed with it to the eastern coast of SkÃ¥ne for a day and a half of planning meetings. The note passed to the department reads: Heard this was good; on the basis of the first fifty pages, one understands exactly…
Who is Paul Graham Raven?
“… who, with raving lips uttering things mirthless, unbedizened, and unperfumed, reaches over a thousand years with [his] voice, thanks to the god in [him].”