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To situate ourselves,
The Eleatic stranger is the dialogue’s main interlocutor. Before saying exactly what statesmanship consists in, he recounts the myth of the time of Kronos, when “the god himself assists the universe on its way and helps it in its rotation.” (269d) In this prelapsarian world, the god ruled humans and there was no [...]
sunday slough
A review of Music, Madness, and the Unworking of Language by John T. Hamilton
How to manage your unwitting internet reputation.
How Obama, whether he wants to or not, is reshaping American capitalism.
Bret Easton Ellis is on Twitter, and the joke is that he’s not doing anything. One assumes, however, that the dearth of updates means the [...]
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on my bookshelf: A Universal History of Iniquity
As a new project, I’m going to be going from left to right, top to bottom (as does the autodidact in Sartre’s Nausea) through the books in my bookshelf and giving a short little review of them.
A Universal History of Iniquity is a collection of short clippings describing various crimes committed in and around the [...]
Review: Savage Detectives
Science fiction it keeps cropping up in my dilletantish adventures in reading. What do you make of realism in novels when the best examples seem to flout the carefully-established norms? The novels whose margins I write in most, the ones with the coffee stains from all that reading during breakfast—are the novels most likely to [...]
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saturday links
I was going to take a picture of the breakfast sausage I cooked in order to make today’s headline a sort of joke, but I ate them before I could take a picture. So here’s a picture of a burger I made at the end of last summer:
Anyway, on to the links (don’t worry, I’m [...]
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evening digest.
New iPhone app allows user to shake a baby until it dies. Awesome.
The Last Modernist: Chris Petit’s retrospective on J.G. Ballard in Granta
Why we should ditch all the crap about wind and solar and go straight for nuclear.
Bill Nye the Science Guy pissed off a bunch of people in 2006 by saying that the Moon [...]
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new circuits: David Maisel, Gavin Bryars, The Awl, After Habermas, Crash
New circuits a semi-regular set of posts about general trends in the internet’s culture-production organs. The internet is a system, and most of its unintelligibility is due to the sheer speed with which a new idea is released, digested and discarded by the collective wit. In the end this will prove a strength, not a [...]
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