From Aharon Appelfeld: INTERVIEWER The German spoken by your parents, you said later, was similar to the German of Franz Kafka. APPELFELD Yes, Franz Kafka—of all the writers, Franz Kafka. When I read him, he was immediately familiar to me. INTERVIEWER So you had a secular upbringing but with some knowledge of religion from your grandparents?Continue reading “ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY ONE”
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ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY
Léopold Lambert, from The Speech of Things. “A ruin is not, however, a proof as such. Only a narrative that would integrate the ruin as the object of its plot could transform it into one. The degree of consistency of this narrative is consequently proportional to the degree of truth that it will reach. InContinue reading “ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY”
ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY NINE
Songs to sing along to on cold nights in warm bars. Buy their album.
ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY EIGHT
From “Revisiting Richard McGuire‘s Graphic Novel Here.”
ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY SEVEN
Sogyal Rinpoche, in the Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. Looking in will require of us great subtlety and great courage—nothing less than a complete shift in our attitude to life and to the mind. We are so addicted to looking outside ourselves that we have lost access to our inner being almost completely. WeContinue reading “ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY SEVEN”
ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY SIX
Everybody Sexts, from Jenna Wortham, illustration from Melody Newcomb. [NSFW]
ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY FIVE
Headphones only.
ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY THREE
From “Physical Training,” Maria Svarbova.
ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY TWO
John Kenn.
ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY ONE
Columbia, Gender Issues in the College Classroom. Put the ponytail on the other one.
ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY
Frank Gehry keeps it real: “Let me tell you one thing,” he replied. “In this world we are living in, 98% of everything that is built and designed today is pure shit. There’s no sense of design, no respect for humanity or for anything else. They are damn buildings and that’s it. “Once in aContinue reading “ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY”
ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY NINE
Kevin Kelly on three breakthroughs in artificial intelligence. In the next 10 years, 99 percent of the artificial intelligence that you will interact with, directly or indirectly, will be nerdily autistic, supersmart specialists. In fact, this won’t really be intelligence, at least not as we’ve come to think of it. Indeed, intelligence may be aContinue reading “ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY NINE”
ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY EIGHT
About a year and a half ago I had a voice injury that left me basically unable to speak and on steroid medication for about two weeks. Friends joked about being like the Little Mermaid, but it was actually a brutally challenging, alienating, and awkward experience. Earlier this week, I found myself with a soreContinue reading “ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY EIGHT”
ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY SEVEN
Last night I couldn’t sleep because I was thinking about writing a paper on morality and robots. Are you allowed to write about Asimov in law school? Powell’s radio voice was tense in Donovan’s ear: “Now, look, let’s start with the three fundamental Rules of Robotics — the three rules that are built most deeplyContinue reading “ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY SEVEN”
ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY SIX
Jill Filipovic on the “trigger warning.” “But generalized trigger warnings aren’t so much about helping people with PTSD as they are about a certain kind of performative feminism: they’re a low-stakes way to use the right language to identify yourself as conscious of social justice issues. Even better is demanding a trigger warning – thatContinue reading “ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY SIX”
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