Kafka as obsessed with “punishment fantasies. The father confronting the protagonist in “The Judgment:” “He radiated insight.”

Can’t believe I hadn’t seen this one:

There is a certain brilliance and lunacy one must come to terms with when reading Heidegger: “Being is the one who is at home in being unhomely.”

I have a theory that things have reached such a crescendo of historical crisis, there are less open spaces for novel theoretical formations to arise like in the recent past (thing theory, ooo, etc.), and what we have are reconsolidations of robust hegelo-marxist, phenomenological, etc. frameworks.

totally normal covers from Xiu Xiu: 🎼 🥚🧌😱💀👾

pardon for not meaning

epic of transgression and obscenity

The movies opening shots: Maersk containers upon containers. It starts with the division of Tahiti as indigenous polity, French colony; Tahiti of vulgar tourists whose consumption is predicated on the fetishization of the locals. But those Maersk containers are foundational. bsky.app/profile/jpad...

Best movie of the 21st century. It rewires a host of questions around postcoloniality, decadence, gender, and power. Would love to write about it one day.

Revisiting High Life’s mesmerizing scene:

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Derrida: Joyce’s texts are incredibly powerful computers:

“Intelligence is not just embodied but distributed.”

Heaney

the whole introduction of LYRIC LOGIC— titled "Philosophical Poetry"— is available to read via preview at @columbiaup.bsky.social 's site cup.columbia.edu/book/lyric-l...

My students are younger than the movie we’re watching, Children of Men (2006), and yet the dystopia is the same.

‘For Wifredo Lam, mental decolonisation wasn’t disconnected from the political kind; the two unfolded in tandem, and Cuba was carrying it out in the political sphere just as he was in the artistic one.’ Tony Wood at MoMA. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

What’s the best book/interpretation of Antigone?

Love the cover design (book is out in July!)

perhaps, usually: our initial cognitive impulse is wrong and needs to be reframed

As always a nice mixture of the quotidian, a playful eroticism, and a kind of schizophrenic hermeneutical anxiety: bsky.app/profile/toms...

‘The camera captures young Heathcliff’s happiness when a quarrel is finished. Fennell doesn’t know how to care for these moments; she is already seeking something else.’ Michael Wood watches 𝘞𝘶𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘏𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵𝘴. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

instructive misspelling: Paradise Lust

On our Close Readings subscription podcast: Rosemary Hill and Matthew Davies, professor of urban history at Birkbeck, trace the story of London through the multiple invasions that took it from a field of ruins to a busy medieval capital. Listen to an extract: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/l...

my upcoming book website from @sunypress.bsky.social sunypress.edu/Books/R/Revo...

Hegel: “Action in the world can never deny its crime nor its guilt.”

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