Monthly Archives: August 2009

modern arrangements

By anewnadir | Published: 27 August 2009
Pitchfork (the main, if not sole determinant of the popular-music zeitgeist these days) had this to say about Air’s part in Charlotte Gainsbourg’s debut solo album, 5:55: Gainsbourg’s contributors buckle beneath excessive reverence for the paterfamilias. Nigel Godrich’s production dips more deeply into lounge nostalgia than during his work for Air, who proffer their own Serge-besotted [...]
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anglophiliac

By anewnadir | Published: 25 August 2009
Mick Hume has this to say about the Lockerbie release: In the past two decades, however, US power has seriously waned and Britain’s has all but disappeared. The loss of American influence in the Middle East has been brought to a head by the Iraq debacle and the rise of Iran. The UK is now a [...]
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the phenomenology of leverage

By anewnadir | Published: 23 August 2009
Ubik, considered by some to be Philip K. Dick’s best novel, is a tragic comedy. Like almost all of Dick’s other books, science fiction is not used to speculative effect: man’s relationship with technology in Ubik cannot be characterized as beneficial or detrimental. It is mostly perverse: Dick portrays a world in which the adage [...]
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the plantar insurgency

By anewnadir | Published: 19 August 2009
Sometime in the middle of high school, I received two plantar warts. I say “receive” because there is no better way to explain their spontaneous appearance on the bottoms of my two feet. Their appearance on my feet presaged a wider presence in my life, all the way from sophomore year of high school to [...]
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on healthcare

By anewnadir | Published: 17 August 2009
What is it about public debates? For some reason (and I do not think I am alone in this), the longer our great nation ponders over any given topic, the more I feel I possess the right to impart some kind of judgment on it. I do not think this has anything to do with [...]
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my bedroom

By anewnadir | Published: 15 August 2009
my bedroom, originally uploaded by anewnadir.
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condolences

By anewnadir | Published: 14 August 2009
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who knows where we’ll go?

By anewnadir | Published: 11 August 2009
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if I could just leave my body for tonight

By anewnadir | Published: 10 August 2009
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Zizek’s Critique of Schelling’s Critique of Hegel’s Critique…

By anewnadir | Published: 10 August 2009
I’ve been captivated recently by the philosophy of Slavoj Zizek. I think this is because he’s less rigorous than the old Germans and doesn’t seem to have the existential hangups of other European philosophers I’ve spent time reading (I’m thinking of you, Sartre and Heidegger). I can’t profess to having read anything more than a [...]
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