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New poems up on The Gravity of the Thing. Happy to see these in a magazine I admire with a mission that values experimental writing.
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Dylan Taylor
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Dylan Taylor
@DylanT114
Devotee of Literature, Science, Culture. Writing in or forthcoming in Modern Haiku, Gravity of the Thing, Vestal Review, American Journal of Poetry, and others.
San Francisco, CA Katılım Mayıs 2017
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@exhaustdata In pure representation of everyman minutiae, perhaps. But when one asks what philosophy it contributes (as Borges, Beckett, Pessoa, Sebald all managed)—what on physics, math, the universe—does it not become a catalogue of paint that makes little dent in its cosmic what & how?
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My hot take on Ulysses is that it’s actually so collosal that it rendered itself irrelevant. It’s in everything. It would be like trying to credit every painting to the inventor of paint. Instead, who has done interesting things with the tools that Joyce created?
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@matthiasellis You mean Karl Marx, the guy who got his PhD in greek philosophy?
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What's the movie that made you think the most?
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New seasonal “existential roller” video game, created in Unity: octagonocean.itch.io/pumpkin-roll
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@aliciaandrz Two degrees in Literature, and I’d take the fundamental language of the entire universe over any writer from the Greeks to Postmoderns+, full stop. It would be odd to promote illiteracy of any sort, yes? We should all feel drawn to master algebra, calculus, and beyond.
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my daughter just announced to me her favorite subject is math & I'm totally aghast.
girl, there are not FIVE degrees in English literature between your parents for you to like math. please.
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@KlausMaccus @_motherslug Faulkner’s “regionalism” isn’t a sin, but he does fall victim to some parochialism, and seems less driven to uncover a clear “articulation” in the way Proust and Woolf seemed to be. He’s closer to Joyce in this sense, and there is some truth in Nabokov’s “corncobby” dismissal.
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@KlausMaccus @_motherslug I don’t recall in studies of Faulkner’s work that a manipulation of time to demonstrate on the nature of reality is central, and have seen Time Passes discussed more in this context. But must admit potential partial ignorance here. Woolf was heavily influenced by Proust
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@KlausMaccus @_motherslug Few if any fiction writers beyond, say, Borges, offer original philosophical perspectives. I’d argue the juxtaposition of Time Passes with other chapters, and the entire framework of The Waves does this sort of thing as well—it creates a unique way of visualizing time, world, etc
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@arthur_ram83641 @_motherslug Baldwin is capable of great depth (though I can only speak fully on his nonfiction), as is Eliot—but he is traditional. Stevens is more the “aesthetics” of philosophy, which he does well. But offers no insights. James can probe, but he is often frivolous, also sensation-focused.
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@DylanT114 @_motherslug Really? What about Henry James, James Baldwin, Wallace Stevens, Eliot, Carlos Williams.......
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@ajbwells This indicates he is a serious writer; he is disillusioned by the frivolity of invention, mimesis, re-creation, and has a self-awareness of both his limitations and the limitations of fiction, allowing him to push it forward.
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But could we deduce an entire “Joyce’s Politics” a la Aristotle’s from his work? Was political statement a core intended goal of his work? Politics is inescapable as any form of pop culture is; many writers’ “politics” are secondary and ad hoc, not primary and systematic.
barry pierce@BarryPierce
apolitical writer james joyce who wrote a portrait of the artist as a young man which mentions charles stewart parnell on every second page
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@duns_sc0tus Sapiens are natural omnivores, protein biologically required. >50% of all animals are carnivores incl per scientific evidence the ancestor of all animals. Eating meat likely goes back 800M+ years. Therefore to not eat meat must rest purely on a socially constructed ethics.
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Meat eating is fascinating because there's actually not a single good argument for it.
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@StephenLimbaugh Serialism etc. is not about expressiveness. The professor is stating that he sees this irrespective of its purpose. Its purpose is to approach it mathematically/systematically, not from some instinctual emotionality. It doesn’t sound dissonant to evoke a specific “feeling.”
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Academics always tried to tell me I just don't understand this postmodern noise, but did Boulez?
It's like an idiot wrote this. To make it at least physiologically coherent, you gotta swap the gestures to different hands.
Whatever this is though, it isn't "expressive."
Prof Ian Pace@drianpace
I am not listening to anyone who tells me there is no expression in Boulez - it is hyper-expressive music! @carolinefrmus
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@IneluctableQuak @MrHWM -Frequently discover texts by (often major) writers that baffle them with their odder-than-their-reputation-ness; regularly ask the X-sphere “am I the only one?”
-The “Revisionists”: “here’s why [insert author] was actually the [best/most/etc]…”
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Last night @MrHWM & I drafted a preliminary taxonomy of dudes on lit Twitter.
Dudes who:
- Only read Marcos Aurelius
- Only read Pynchon & Gaddis
- Only dunk on writers who happen to be young women
What else?
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@grnpointer @wife_geist A real diner, regardless of quality, is about no frills “get the job done” affordability. Even the good ones (unless bougie-fied) use processed, high calorie ingredients.
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@DylanT114 @wife_geist OK now I'm starting a GoFundMe so that you can visit a real diner
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it’s easy to get carried away making fun of the brits but then you see a tweet like this and remember how hard they have it over there, they deserve our sympathy and pity
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@TerrifyingQuest @chronoblip While “true” if defined as always unified “1 body of water”, will not 2 H2O+2 H2O molecules always = same “vol of 4 H2O molecules” output? To see body as “1” regardless of droplet summation is a perceptual definition, not tied to its physical “4-vol”, distinct from “5-vol”, etc.
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@chronoblip those are some symbols "2+2=4". For them to be true or false requires an interpretation. EG if we are doing clock arithmetic on a clock that has only 3 numbers it's not true. If we are physically adding drops of water it's not true. & so on! take a look at the Davidson essay.
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2+2=4
How people feel about that (subjective) does not change the mathematics (objective).
We need to give up redefining things based on our own limitations and faults, as if our subjective perceptions constrain any objective reality.
Joe Campbell@PhilosopherJoeC
We need to give up the subjective/objective distinction. Everything is in some sense subjective - a potential item of my thought - and in some sense objective - others may think about it, too. Name something that is entirely objective yet in no sense subjective, or vice versa?
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