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@aaroninky
in ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds.
中目黒 Katılım Nisan 2009
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@funkentechno a lot of early OPN albums take this label as a touchstone. the album artwork for ‘drawn and quartered’, for e.g. youtu.be/unayAY4xaOg?si…
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ok this is ~incredible~
feels like the soundtrack to a heady scifi movie I grew up watching.. that, y'know, doesn't exist. gonna have to hear everything I can from this label.
MutantPub@MutantPub
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@_TheLondoner @moorehn @DanNeidle “hoover scion” is such a funny consecution of words. like something out of chris morris. did ‘cyclonic knight’ not scan well enough?
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@roryisconfused receding bohemia. good meades documentary made on this in the 1990s. still to be found in verdant ruritanian enclaves like stroud.
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Feel like “posh hippies”, of the sort that populate Tessa Hadley novels, are radically on the decline…young guy with long hair and tweed blazers who went to Oxford but who’s usually stoned and thinks it’s very important that he’s into Pink Floyd…a dying breed…
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@Michaeljhandy @arisroussinos + what woolf disdained really was the erudition, not lack of; the “undergraduate scratching his pimples” remarks. the upper-classes have always affected a sort of jolly philistinism; it is vulgar and graceless to be too ostentatious with one’s learning. hence her antipathy to UL.
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@aaroninky @arisroussinos I adore Woolf as a writer but she's being a massive snob here with no justification.
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The strange thing in this is that, apart from being the better writer, Joyce was also objectively better educated than Woolf
Bret van den Brink@BretVDB
Virginia Woolf’s diary entries on James Joyce’s Ulysses: “An illiterate, underbred book it seems to me; the book of a self taught working man, and we all know how distressing they are, how egotistic, insistent, raw, striking, and ultimately nauseating. … I finished ‘Ulysses’ and think it is a misfire. Genius it has, I think; but of the inferior water. The book is diffuse. It is brackish. It is pretentious. It is underbred, not only in the obvious sense, but in the literary sense. A first-rate writer, I mean, respects writing too much to be tricky; startling; doing stunts.”
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@cosmorxn @Michaeljhandy @arisroussinos i didn’t have enough characters to include mention of schools like clongowes or portora - more sensible choices for an irish son than eton. but yes, his education reflects his social background. comparison to woolf needs this context.
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@aaroninky @Michaeljhandy @arisroussinos For what it’s worth, he went to Clongowes, which is maybe the most prestigious school in the country.
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@Michaeljhandy @arisroussinos again: illiterate. woolf’s aristocratic lover, vita sackville-west, from one of the richest families of the time, was educated by governesses, debuted as a deb, and never formally educated. this was a social signal for the upper crust. education was aspirational.
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@aaroninky @arisroussinos It's not 1750, by Edwardian times aristocratic women with academic leanings were absolutely sent to Somerville or St Anne's.
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@Michaeljhandy @arisroussinos joyce was an irish catholic. it would seem pretty churlish to judge him for not being sent to eton in 1890. catholics tended to have their own elite boarding schools and jesuit colleges. again: basic context here.
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@aaroninky @arisroussinos Sorry, but no. Woolf is dunking on Joyce for not studying at Eton and Oxbridge when she herself never studied there and studied at a university of similar prestige to Joyce.
And there were plenty of Oxbridge Women's Colleges in her time.
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@Michaeljhandy @arisroussinos woolf was certainly being a snob and women’s higher education did exist then, but there’s plenty of sociological reasons for why she herself didn’t go to university. most aristocratic women did not.
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@Michaeljhandy @arisroussinos “joyce was objectively better educated”. he was the son of irish petit-bourgeoisie, where being sent to somewhere like belvedere was aspirational. haute-bourgeoisie or aristocratic families didn’t formally educate their daughters almost out of principle. this is basic context.
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@Michaeljhandy @arisroussinos this is so stupidly historically illiterate. woolf was raised in the late victorian era. women did not have equal access to education (she worked lots with groups to broaden access, particularly w/c women). people didn’t have uni rankings brain in 1913. ‘early red brick’ lmao.
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@danyay @lacherbauer if i had to (inevitably) generalise, i wld say JP represents a past vision of the future: it’s cute and somewhat neutered as a result. korea is the actual, as opposed to imagined, cutting-edge of capitalism. the dystopic tropes - suicide, overwork, fertility - apply more there.
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@aaroninky @lacherbauer Why SK? In some ways it feels dated much like JP does. In others it feels advanced, but not really dystopian?
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Very accurate. Even the trains which are advanced feel dated, as does most of the public infrastructure and even a lot of the architecture.
Viggie Smalls@Viggie_Smalls93
Japan is kind of stuck in the 90s but it was so far ahead in the 90s that you hardly notice it
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@tonytost ironically, given the language you use to describe hierophantic new critics, i feel like the hermeneutic tradition is very good for the sort of criticism to which you refer, and which possibly sidesteps the ego-centering, therapeutic stuff and its tendency to nombrilisme.
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There's a type of art critic I rarely ever dig. They discuss works of art as if they themselves have no pressing emotional, psychological, physical, or spiritual wounds the work might balm. They're some kind of high priest, examining at a safe remove. A disembodied intellect.
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@SurtseyAna @Thought_Critica @kasukalan the discussion wasn’t about rates of fiction reading relative to overall literacy, though. it was about whether one should read fiction if trying to become a fiction writer. your lack of humility and basic incuriosity on this front preclude you from ever becoming a good writer.
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@aaroninky @Thought_Critica @kasukalan Facts: the majority of people who can read - don't read fiction. Rather than admit the current model is flawed. Readers gaslight themselves by maintaining non-readers are less intelligent. Yup, Rowling & James are terrible. You people are right.
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'must u read novels to write them' is such a ridiculous question but maybe also reveals the difference between seeing a novel as a v specific (aesthetic) mode of human expression vs seeing the novel (and novelist) as solely a product / commodity that one can cosplay as or perform
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@Vince_Zurich @cinecitta2030 a lot of the satire has also aged poorly though (as indeed it often does). he’s funny, wry, and amusing - but a giant of literature? eeh. france is good at putting figures like this on a pedestal, especially if they do the usual ‘épater la bourgeoisie’ act. topical, not immortal.
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@cinecitta2030 He is well ahead of his time…25 yrs ago he wrote a brilliant book (‘Platform’) about the
‘clash between Western hedonism & radical ideologies, transforming an apparent paradise into a literal and metaphorical hell’ … 🤔
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Nobody has more aura than a hideous little goblin who is a towering man of literature
Max Thrax@ThraxMaximilian
Houellebecq has maybe a dozen photos that look like AI but aren't
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@BovrilG @tfromthemeadow his new statesman column was very funny for a while. he has however been announcing the death of the novel as well as literacy itself for about 20 years now.
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@tfromthemeadow He wrote a hilarious article in about 2010 about hiking with his son and a security guard trying to detain him under the assumption that he was a nonce trying to abduct the boy
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Can never bring myself to dislike him tbh, this is magnificent
The London Magazine@TheLondonMag
'Someone who can’t read a book cannot deliberate, cannot think and cannot conceptualise, and therefore is a threat. That’s where fascism gets going.' An interview with @wself. Read it here: thelondonmagazine.org/interview-will…
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I think Trump always knows, on a cellular level, when he's not winning. He's attuned to his popularity the way a Richter scale is attuned to tremors in the earth. He fully knows he's been taken for a ride imo. The question is 1) what he will do about it and 2) what he CAN do about it, because he's long since painted himself into a corner of doing Israel's bidding, and his closest advisers -- Witkoff and Kushner -- are openly favoring Israel and practically its proxies.
Also: Remember, Israel under Netanyahu blackmailed Bill Clinton and it could well be blackmailing Trump too.
Yousef Munayyer@YousefMunayyer
You have to wonder at what point Trump will realize he has been sold a bag of shit by Netanyahu?
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