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speculative realism
Note: This is a work in progress, so you’ll have to accept that it’s a little rough around the edges. Any thoughts and opinions are appreciated in the comments section.
In my time in India thus far, one conversation seems to just keep popping up, over and over again. Actually, this conversation is one I’ve been [...]
Posted in new circuits, philosophy Tagged deleuze, india, jaipur, language, philosophy, politics, rationality, wittgenstein 1 Comment
Niall Ferguson and the Descent of Cash
I didn’t expect to update this blog at all while I was in India, since I’ve been more or less regularly updating the blog I made especially for this trip. However over the past few days I have been at the Jaipur Literature Festival. Given the high-brow nature of most of the events I felt [...]
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Hiatus, India
Erstwhile readers, oh devoted group of fellow dilettantes and archeophiles. Public Organ, as you may notice, has not been updated of recent. This is not because Zach and Walker, the editors, are doing nothing. Changing circumstances (geographic and intellectual) have caused us to divert our attentions to other self-made publications.
Zach is [...]
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The Wings of Desire (1987)
Wim Wenders won (whew) Best Director at Cannes for this epic of peace starring Bruno Ganz as a slightly-more-than-ambivalent angel and Solveig Dommartin as the hottest French-Algerian this side of Zinedine Zidane. Not much for plot in this one folks, so we’ll cut straight to the analysis.
Ganz and Otto Sander play Damiel and Cassiel, two [...]
Posted in film Tagged Bruno Ganz, Cannes, Cold War, Germany, movies, Solveig Dommartin, Wim Wenders, Wings of Desire Leave a comment
Budaghers, New Mexico
On Saturday I went to Santa Fe to meet with someone who had agreed to go over the writing sample I am submitting along with my graduate school applications. About halfway between Albuquerque and Santa Fe there is a derelict outlet mall, just on the outskirts of Budaghers. I forget what the name of this [...]
I travel to India on the 18th of January
This has always served different purposes: as an outlet for my creative impulses, as a blank sheet of paper for my latest thought or insight. I cannot pretend that I maintain any kind of consistency with regard to the quality and subject matter of what I post on A NEW NADIR.
I have been particularly occupied [...]
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the overpass, a song
I think I understand J.G. Ballard now
Changing routes is an auto-hypnotic state
I wish I could stare at the curvilinear safety wall forever
Landscape projects, double fine zones
When I hit the top of the interchange
I can see forever on either side
But I don’t bother looking over the divider
I only have eyes for the car in front of [...]
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