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dunking on Nabokov for not understanding what really made Lolita attractive to creeps is peak Houellebecq

more people should write about driving recklessly. worked for Ballard, worked for Hawkes, apparently it worked for Anna Kavan, too.

there was a period of time where describing people walking in a single file line was the most terrifying thing a writer could imagine

as a Deleuzian sirens go off in my head every time the word “machine” is used

reads like Kafka. not complaining merely stating the facts

so Anna Lacan’s real name is Helen Woods. I don’t like being lied to

enjoyable so far but i would counter that the “superior signification of politics” isn’t contingent on a desire for omnipotence as Nancy suggests but rather total impotence (à la Baudrillard//Kristeva’s reading of contemporary political power)

seriously if i was Fukuyama i would have changed my name and moved countries

Fukuyama fans on suicide watch

watch in amazement as a man with multiple advanced degrees from ivy league schools levels a critique of Edward Said because Said wore fancy suits. this is one of the greatest minds in contemporary theory at work here

the whole argument here basically hinges on an absolutism - that confirmation of a category requires the total negation of another. seems just as easy to say “no” to this as it is to say “yes”

a lot of this is undercut by the fact that this man has like two ivy league degrees and a PhD from UC Berkeley. i don’t think your experience at a paid for academic conference in Berlin is very useful evidence for any kind of meta-critique of liberation theory lol

Watkins’ film Punishment Park illustrates x phenomenon perfectly. this phenomenon applies also to Watkins as a filmmaker though so despite his film being a perfect illustration of x, it is nonetheless a limitation of his. dumb reasoning but i’ll allow it

we’ve moved on from some of the least convincing critical theory i’ve read in awhile to basically what reads as a racially charged john grisham novel. gotta say, enjoying this part a lot more

did you know Wilderson was kicked out of Dartmouth College in 1978 for leading an act of civil disobedience? i do because he has said so six times in as many pages

i remember when this came out ~a year ago and everyone had an opinion on it. i didn’t read it and didn’t have an opinion on it. now it seems like barely anyone remembers afropessimism so it is time for me to have an opinion on it

Roth has such serious lyrical precision at his disposal which makes sentences like: “They looked rather pathetic in their colorful uniforms.” that much better

i wonder if Roth ever read Walser. this seems like Walser to me

proverbs being so boring is just more evidence that Job was written by a singular biblical poet