From Alice Oswald, Various Portents. Various stars. Various kings. Various sunsets, signs, cursory insights. Many minute attentions, many knowledgeable watchers, Much cold, much overbearing darkness. Various long midwinter Glooms. Various Solitary and Terrible Stars. Many Frosty Nights, many previously Unseen Sky-flowers. Many people setting out (some of them kings) all clutching at stars. Continue reading “TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY SIX”
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TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FIVE
Jia Tolentino’s ‘No Offence’ feels like such an important moment. It perfectly captures so much of what we’ll confess to sisters and friends over a glass of wine, but would never dare say online. “And so, there is an unspoken, horrible idea that contemporary political activity starts and perhaps ends with building a really good politicized identity—a processContinue reading “TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FIVE”
TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FOUR
From Kyle Dargan‘s The Robots are Coming. Give them Gary. Give them Detroit, Pittsburgh, Braddock—those forgotten nurseries of girders and axels. Tell the machines we honor their dead, distant cousins. Tell them we tendered those cities to repose out of respect for welded steel’s bygone era.
TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY THREE
Gifs by Nancy Liang.
TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY TWO
I love La boîte verte‘s photo mystère n°195:
TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY ONE
There is a Venn diagram of everything I love somewhere out there, and at its core you will find this reference to teeny tiny tortoise bootstraps. Full comic at NBM.
TWO HUNDRED AND EIGHTY
Daito Manabe, 3 dancers and 24 drones is beautiful — via booooooom.
TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY NINE
From Blues Build the Temple by Trevor Naud, via 50 watts.
TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY EIGHT
Happy birthday Joan Didion, via Maria Popova. Re-reading and reflecting on Didion here makes me think about my parents, who always insisted on this kind of self-respect and discipline. As an adult, I am incredibly grateful that I can call upon that practice, and feel a lot of sadness for those who never learned it. The dismal fact isContinue reading “TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY EIGHT”
TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY SEVEN
From Lon Chan‘s portfolio.
TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY SIX
This is a really wonderful abstract to a fascinating paper. “The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work,” Phillip Rogaway. Cryptography rearranges power: it configures who can do what, from what. This makes cryptography an inherently political tool, and it confers on the field an intrinsically moral dimension. The Snowden revelations motivate a reassessment of the political andContinue reading “TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY SIX”
TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY FIVE
From Jonathan Lethem’s The Empty Room. My father created a sign-in sheet at the empty room’s door. My mother spent her afternoons managing it. This was the first thing she complained of when my father slogged in for dinner. If he arrived in time to personally hound kids from the room—always checking to make certain we’dContinue reading “TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY FIVE”
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TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY THREE
Warsan Shire, what they did yesterday afternoon. what they did yesterday afternoon they set my aunts house on fire i cried the way women on tv do folding at the middle like a five pound note. i called the boy who use to love me tried to ‘okay’ my voice i said hello he said warsan,Continue reading “TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY THREE”
TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY TWO
From the incredible Arundhati Roy / John Cusack conversations. JC: So the term human rights can take the oxygen out of justice? AR: Human rights takes history out of justice.
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