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January 31, 2021
2020: looking back at a year in crappy links Below, merely a small sliver of links clicked by TiR during a crappy and clickable year: on functional nonsense (1935) Haiti prospects 2020: revolt everywhere, non-stop newly created jobs are increasingly shite: we have an index for that now welcome to the age of category errors: thanks, social media de-mythologizing Senghor? Behold the 21st Century: the return of 3rd class services, everywhere tired: luxury Communism. wired: "scarcity nativism": the academic conference why we need "hinterland studies" a new way to make sense of Orson Welles: think Patti Smith the "rebel soundtrack" in war-torn Sierra Leone: some field observations bracing ourselves for global capital's newest inevitable by-product collapsologists agree: "It happened quicker than we thought it would" Kropotkin back in style with a follow-up goodbye 21st century elites: let's track their crackup Independence @ 60: the playlist DeBeauvoir across the USA, 1948: a more depressing Kerouac whence came 'the police force'? the investigations, for some, commence How democracies' assassins enter through the door marked 'gender roles': observations from Brazil Planet of slums stress test: can the "First World" really survive without the "Third"? where did the "D" end & the "G" begin? [did an "E" & "F" stand between them?] Towards a Soviet Socialist theory of boredom tech firms: from makers to takers Is taking opiates sadly America's only full-time job? some sources "[H]e always pitched his voice as if he were selling you reefer in the men’s room at Minton’s in 1946." Marseille punk: the academic conference 1930's Shangai cinema and the "auditory grotesque": Darby English on what he learned from Douglas Crimp: "In isolation, a question is merely entertained, not posed. My questions were intellectual playthings, talismans of smartness I just sort of hoarded. . . . I began to understand that a real question anticipates replies one cannot predict. And replies supplied the only way to learn from my questions, to develop them, to put them to work." What would the new US authoritarianism look like? Like the old kind: Jim Crow from whence came the ideas of modern American psychiatry? in part, post-slavery racial politics What made early American libraries possible? You can guess. "Last night, I was peeling a cucumber and I was infuriated. Like, why am I peeling this cucumber?" "It's money that has permitted the virus to propagate itself." (The virus is not what you think.) "When the living can no longer fight, the dead will fight. With every heart beat of the revolution the flesh will grow back on the bones, the blood into their veins, life into their death." new democracies and how to disempower them: he helped crack the code our future AI-driven, future hellscape: a Lacanian take "data annotation workers" as the new 21st century proletarians Locke vs. The Bishop (Stillingfleet): "A Discourse in Vindication of the Doctrine of the Trinity: With an Answer to the late Socinian Objections against it from Scripture, Antiquity, and Reason. and a Preface concerning the different Explications of the Trinity, and the Tendency of the present Socinian Controversie" (part 2 of a 7-part 1690s throwdown on human understanding) What changed 1940s cinema? Radio, of course. Miles as anthropologist: what's of value in the foreign or schlocky? the anthropology of Liberia -- the other one the secret is knowing "who hates who": timeless wisdom It's all too much: newish histories of (our, everyone's) insanity why Bach's Passions are secular works, disguised as religious "Afrobeats": a meaningless label? yes & no revisiting Bellah's "Civil Religion in America" (1967) GBS's radical turn: why so big? why so little? Were The Sixties invented on Sept. 19, 1960? Ai Weiwei summarizes a big thing perhaps best get to know a favorite philosopher of Caetano Veloso where consent ends & coercion begins: thinking Nasserism through Gramsci what to call a novel that offers the reader no internal explanation for why it was written? Genette may know heaven forbid we decolonize: the rise of tax havens George Novack in 1939: "The high price of The Black Jacobins will inevitably restrict its circulation." [then, from Dial Press at $3.75] $3.75 in 1939 was worth how much in 2020? $69.82. when exactly was the fabulous "Sindiza Ngecadillacs" recorded? Mallarmé in 1890: "This crazy game of writing, it only exists by virtue of a doubt . . . some duty to recreate everything, with reminiscences to prove that we are truly here where we ought to be (because, allow me to express this apprehension, there remains some uncertainty [incertitude]." "It's like sucking a lollypop with the wrapper on" the great Joan Semmel on looking at paintings in times of pandemic, on-line (@ minute 50 herein) what will end income inequality? violence & mass death, of course ho ho ho "How much in the world depends on appearances you can judge from the mere fact that coffee served in wine-glasses is a very miserable drink."" Alas we realized in the end that the crappiness was not in the links, and not in their content, but in TiRselves. |
