I just remember liking this 16th century essay in college
Feb 25, 2024
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Absolutely the best book Iāve ever read but it took me, if Iām remembering correctly, over a month to get through. Itās so dense with material I had to reread things over and over to get everything being put together. It has an academic vibe, so if thatās not your thing, you probably wouldnāt enjoy. But god, I loved it.
Feb 7, 2025
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Iām waiting for my triumphant return to school in January, till then I am CHILLING.
Right now Iām almost done One Hundred Years of Solitude and Gabor MatĆ© (my love)ās Hungry Ghosts. One Hundred Years has me conflictedāalthough I can appreciate itās patient meditation on the cyclical nature of capitalism, itās pacing is emotionally nonlinear, and paired with the six generations of all too similar names, itās been a tedious venture so far. Conversely, I was enthralled by the first half of Hungry Ghosts so much that I went back and highlighted all the lines that struck me, and now Iāve got just shy of a hundred pages left. As an addict Iām indebted to his compassion, research, prose, and those adorable cheek bones
Nov 26, 2024
has haunted me since I first read it like idk a decade ago
Sep 29, 2024
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this was the epitome of the Obama administration
Feb 19, 2024
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Not a rec but a trend I noticed in music.
In Hayes Code Hollywood (puritanical production mandates against things like sex, violence, swearing in movies), there were musical numbers that took otherwise innocuous songs and added eroti./BDSM undertones. we had āDiamonds Are a Girlās Best Friendā from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. The big dance sequence in Minnelliās The Pirate, where a woman is transformed into a donkey/bunny(? I forget) on all fours (I think?) while Gene Kelly gyrates around her in tight, low cut leather (this is crystal clear).
Fast forward (Iām skipping many steps - an amateur at this sort of thing) to the late 2000s/early 2010s. The latent BDSM becomes more explicitly lyrical in songs Like āBad Romanceā and (obviously) āSM.ā However, these songs have erotic purchase - they chart desire ( ā I want your revengeā āChains and whips excite meā) without the context of the body. The instrument and the lyrics let the listener construct titillation/lust.
Then, in the latter 2010s, we get total assaults of the physical experience of pleasure in Songs like āWAPā artists like Cupcakke, etc. so explicit that they undermine eroticism. At the same time, thereās also artists like Carly Rae Jepsen, who wax about yearning in a mystical, spiritual fashion (that im sure Jia Tolentino wrote about somewhere).
still working out why, but I think this change speaks to how rabidly we want sensation (not contemplation) from art but also (bc we get most of our art electronicall) technology and (still Working this one out) religion?
i told my friend about this and he said, āSex Positive Accelerationism.ā
Feb 26, 2024
The following photos are examples. another instance which belongs only to memory: I was teaching kindergarten on the UES at a point in my life which seemed to have no point but one morning I was walking from 86th street where they have enormous lavish dogs who look like they have a 401k and the sun was coruscating like entire streets were orange and I strolled past this Platonic piece of dog shit that was sculpted like a soft serve and the shit had this gleaming halo from the sun and stopped and stared at it for like 5 minutes
This song from the legend of Zelda always plays when I see these: https://youtu.be/qtCWgWUhA8s?si=f13382M560HRzX6B
Feb 4, 2024