Early summer music.

Author photo

“We keep reheating our nachos.” - Fredric Jameson

There would be no Backrooms without the rise of installation art in the 1960s.

Embarrassed and feeling old about knowing so much about 2010s electronic music.

Lovely design:

Nothing more satisfying than a 30pg + stapler.

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Backrooms is about the horror of polyester and particleboard.

Responding to a student’s comment in a robotic voice: “Fair pushback. That was overstated.”

Writing about “dipsomania” as a diagnosis and poetic furor in the work of this Nicaraguan poet, CMR, for the MSA conference.

Boards of Canada on the secular sublime

Thought this guy had been made up by Cesar Aira

Very excited to have my new book in my hands! It is also open access so you can read it on Liverpool University Press's website.

“Let’s turn it into tik tok and call it five minutes.” bsky.app/profile/vult...

“The ugly… draws attention to the critical function of modern art.”

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#Index / #epigraphs

Seems very interesting. Though it would be an oversight if it didn’t cover Enrique Dussel’s ethical project.

This amazing technology reminds me about that time when my cat vomited

upstate NY summer

Interesting album, dark as the times

Who or what is the voice you “hear” when you read?

I remember dueling interpretations of Benjamin’s “On Some Motifs on Baudelaire” as either something he wrote under Adornian duress or the pinnacle of his Baudelaire investigation.

Why did Granta decide to commit harakiri

Timothy Morton moratorium pls

New art for new office

Where it started

“If we can’t have the bees we’ll have drones.” (Joyelle McSweeney)

I shudder to think what the movie Obsession means about young people’s (and everyone’s) anxieties about love and intimacy. Enjoyable movie, watch it in a full theater.

Butter on the popcorn is too much, excessive jouissance.

Derrida’s tired tendency to start an argument with a gnomic phrase

Most annoying person ever to have made good music

Walking towards the sabbatical

books left behind this semester…

One of the gayest exchanges extant in Irish literature, from The Third Policeman: ' Women I have no interest in at all, ' I said smiling. ' A fiddle is a better thing for diversion.'

My cat is releasing a dark folk album:

Been cited, but apparently I “stop short”

The conclusion to draw from this is that the entire epistemological structure of LLMs is compromised

More Theory-Fiction: olrsupplement.com/2026/05/08/i...

Picture released of an alien in latest UFO files

I like the Chronicle of Higher Ed, but why must it send 27 emails a day?

I have a chapter on his work in Cuba in *Revolutionary Poetics.* sunypress.edu/Books/R/Revo...

This photo of Rancière

When Saussure thought he could unlock secret “anagrams” in ancient poetry:

Pickled artichoke will always disappoint you.

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