daniel adler

a note about the fourfold in durrell's alexandria quartet: www-tandfonline-com.unr.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10.10…

the chatbots are getting more confident in their replies, more resistant to critique and admitting they’re wrong

A river does not want to go anywhere. It wants to grow bigger and deeper.

when a student says deadass to me it's never a good sign

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i object to the pre-digested affective-moral position of much recent art: structural ambiguity and you're supposed to feel a certain way when you're done consuming. brings art ever closer to entertainment.

@wdavidmarx remarkable how contemporary aesthetics presupposes a political dimension--i think of it as an inability to keep form and allegorical interpretation separate

I very clearly mean *aesthetic* radicalism, which has its own benefits to humans, and the fact that we're now asking "should artists really have to be radical!?!" is the cultural change I'm pointing to, seeing that it was the guiding principle in the 20th century

while watching panahi's it was just an accident, i learned that tehran and reno's climates are remarkably similar

filho's bacarau was surprisingly weak: premised on allegorical literalness, affective immediacy, and moral over-resolution, it already feels dated, a protest movie which like much art in the streaming era, tells you exactly how to feel. i only hope the secret agent is better.

spring break brazil curriculum so far: rio, zona norte falsa loura the devil to pay in the backlands

finally read mansfield park. even if fanny is a prig, her judgment redeems her. i was more shocked by the resolution of cousin marriage than any of the other scandals.

who is going to campinas for the philosophy and literature conference?

i've entered my aeropress era

i am translating structures of meaning—mythic, philosophical, historical—into contemporary forms that preserve seriousness without dogma

but ultimately its postmodern skepticism prevents it from reaching the heights of great novels, such as nausea, for example, which offers a more affirmative risk at its end

i'm reading john fowles' the magus years after my high school english teacher suggested the strangeness of revising a novel after publishing it. having searched for the original (1965), i finally decided to read the one available (1978) and i am pleased to say i am enjoying it

re the monuments show @MOCAlosangeles: a future with more diverse monuments, sure, and not just racially but intellectually—artists, thinkers, writers, astronauts. Towards a people unburdened by history with the imagination to change things; not just taking down but building up.

the oranges from the trees in pershing square are some of the juiciest i’ve had in a long time

jupiter before leda

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“bach wig”