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It’s not hoarding if it’s books or records. Author of _Writing of the Formless: José Lezama Lima and the End of Time_ (Fordham UP). 🇵🇷
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Name your top song that mentions Paul Verlaine. I’ll go first. youtu.be/Ve-8REiCEs8?...

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Name your top song that mentions Paul Verlaine. I’ll go first. youtu.be/Ve-8REiCEs8?...

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I truly think people don’t realize how many universities and colleges — especially public ones — may shut down if restrictions on and withholding of federal funding persists for even one presidency We are facing the demolition of American higher education

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No more students will be offered admission to grad school at Pitt due to the instability of our federal government.

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The barber: “So, are you into conspiracy theories?” 🙄

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Today’s reading.

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Negative capability, please. More negative capability.

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It’s getting too real.

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Me encantó este libro. D Rodríguez Landeros. Desagüe.

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Escribí sobre el libro Drenajes de Diego Rodríguez Landeros, y sobre ser detective del agua, para Nexos: cultura.nexos.com.mx/una-lectura-...

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!!!!!!!

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“The impotence is as staggering as the abdication is sickening. But the current message from elected Democrats is loud and clear: You’re on your own.” @marisakabas.bsky.social www.thehandbasket.co/p/musk-frida...

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I hope this is real.

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This one is good.

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This one is good.

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People mistake one’s obsession with the evils of Spotify with some sort of music nerdery. But it’s really about the tech oligarchs manufacturing of a version of reality that is really toxic.

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CRG: “Seventh thesis: The future is the longest dead end” (128).

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CRG: “Seventh thesis: The future is the longest dead end” (128).

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The syllabus now comes with a table of contents.

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In the mail today.

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Anton Jäger. “Hyperpolitics in America.” NLR 149, p. 13.

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Seguimos.

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Up next.

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Archive fever.

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Archive fever.

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Ahhh my friend got a copy of Nuyorican/Diasporican art before me!

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Reading. Emily Leon Triadic Intimacy and the Sound of Secrets. Inside the Castle, 2023.

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Vox populi is when a billionaire wants something.

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Vox populi is when a billionaire wants something.

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“If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. … This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness.” Rilke. The Book of Hours, II,16 (Barrows & Macy, trans.)

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Academics finishing the semester: FINALLY I can start working on my work!

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Now that teaching is done.

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Sometimes you get the sense that the people writing the Netflix adaptation of a famous novel are doing it from memory. A bit fuzzy for no good reason.

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Reinaldo Arenas. _Otra vez el mar_.

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english.elpais.com/culture/2024... The last question and answer in the El País interview with Judith Butler:

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In the film Room 999, Wim Wenders says “digital” destroyed truth, culture, etc.. This is good because it identifies a culprit that is not philosophers trying to think very rigorously about history and symbolic forms. The dominant thinkers of the last 25 years didn’t do as much. And here we are!

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