Café el speta, Vienna, 30.05.2026

It’s written up in Der Falter so it must be important

Yes

I don’t think I’d “use” Luhmann in a pure form at this point, but I do think adapting his way of thinking is a good thought experiment, because whatever your object is, you need to develop a system-specific set of concepts rather than importing ones from outside.

Working on a flawless empirical & historical refutation of Timothy Morton’s remarks on Pink Floyd

On April 16, for my senior seminar on German songwriting, I organized a night of songs with students where they sang, rapped and recited songs & poems, I played guitar & sang a bit, & a colleague sang the final song. The feedback I’ve gotten from students has been positive unlike anything I’ve seen.

I can’t quite believe this is happening, but it is:

I love the German title of Lasse Hallström's Chocolat (2000), which presumes that audiences don't know what chocolate is: "Chocolat – Ein kleiner Biss genügt"

Pliny the Elder: now this is what I call writing

“Sein äußeres Leben bestand in einer Reihe von Unfällen, die großentheils hervorgingen aus ungezügelten Leidenschaften.“

I have a big new essay out that argues that Erich Auerbach is the crucial figure for historicist reading in lit studies today + argues that the epistemology of such reading depends on the profoundly humanist criterion "sufficient passion" muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Its interesting that in the late 90s there was a market for reprints of the most obscure and convoluted books by Jack Kerouac—Schwartz’s in Milwaukee would stock them all—and they’ve mostly gone out of print since then, titles like Satori in Paris or Doctor Sax.

Musical and literary amnesia: every one of these genres has medieval roots and was widespread in the early modern era, but there is a tendency in literary studies to credit their invention to Bürger and Goethe and leave it at that.

Altamont 1969: descended into violence Waldeck 1969: descended into discussion

It just does not get any better than this

R.I.P. Béla Tarr. In 2011, I ran into him wandering outside, wearing a black shirt in the blinding sunlight on Hollywood Boulevard, moments before the Turin Horse screened at AFI Fest.

Sociopath who edits an entire book manuscript using the Del and Ins keys

Oh wow I have GOT to read this one

2 hour big budget “In the Penal Colony” adaptation with “Sloop John B” needle drop when the credits roll

When can we get fully AI-generated Google Maps that gives us slightly different street layouts each time?

In the next four years we will see the emergence of premium subscription-based “human GPT”, a personal assistant who will text you back at all hours of the day and pretend to have snappy answers for anything you ask

I am hereby copywriting the novel/story/song title “God Will Never Notice”

My band’s new EP is out on vinyl now flashlightfaces.bandcamp.com/album/under-...

Interesting/encouraging to see local candidates connecting (a) the surge of energy prices for consumers to (b) the unregulated data center boom, (c) the environmental threat it poses and (d) government divestment from renewable energy

Getting burned out on “literature as utopia,” “literature as a way of imagining things being otherwise,” going back to “literature with really really good visual descriptions”

Lol we have the #1 trending song on Amazing Radio UK

Happy to see music I’ve made get played here and there on internet & FM radio this past month, so here it all is again: lnk.to/underthehammer paulbuchholz.bandcamp.com

I write about Krasznahorkai in the conclusion of my book: nupress.northwestern.edu/978081013664...

Song I recorded in London this summer is getting repeat play on the radio in the UK, starts at about 1:49:00 www.mixcloud.com/brian-player...

Evan Evans, Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Antient Welsh Bards (1764) #Wales #Literature #English #language

This is my band, I wrote & sang the songs, and it was recorded at the best studio in all Atlanta.

This is my band, I wrote & sang the songs, and it was recorded at the best studio in all Atlanta.

Golden light in 35mm

Preorder here: shop.echobase.com/products/fla...

George Eliot writing the stone-cold coolest first paragraph of a novel I’ve read

In Cologne in summer 2001 I went to a cafe west of the Altstadt that had white walls covered in large pen-writing. There was counter seating in the center where I sat down for breakfast and on the menu they had funny breakfasts like the “Stadt-Frühstück“ which was I believe a coffee and an aspirin.

Guy Debord might seem like a chill dude, but miss the deadline on your psychogeographic study of Venice and you are OUT of the Situationist International.

Das weltweit befürchtete Computerchaos

This is incredible.

Some very cool, some very significant people have preordered this, but are you one of them?

Please enjoy this “local public access TV channel”-style spotlight on our new EP, shot on location in my hometown of Milwaukee. www.youtube.com/watch?v=peCA...

Well, technically it’s still summer, so don’t call it moonlighting. Our new EP will be out on vinyl this Halloween. www.youtube.com/watch?v=peCA...

Well, technically it’s still summer, so don’t call it moonlighting. Our new EP will be out on vinyl this Halloween. www.youtube.com/watch?v=peCA...

“Elaine Dundy described it in The Old Man and Me as ‘a sort of coal hole in the heart of SoHo that is open every afternoon, a dead-ended subterranean tunnel…an atmosphere almost solid with failure.’” Barry Miles, London Calling

Yorkshire in 35mm