Eric Brandom
Intellectual history, here decontextualized. Especially modern France, history of political thought, and socialism. And Kansas, because that's where I live.
- The children, it turns out, are super into Princess Bride.
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- Best not to think about it too consistently is my experience
- Did we ever settle on the number of pencils the beautiful little girls will be able to have
- One blackwing or any number of inferior pencils I think
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View full threadWhich is why Sarrasine is such a fucking wild text
- Well, one reason
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- And they are right!
- It's that wild moment where they're able to be both totally engaged in the Buttercup/Wesley/Inigo business and also completely accept the reality of being read this/a story by your granddad.
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- One of the kids thought his accent sounded...French? No! I believe that character is Spanish.
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- I wasn't sure at all how it would go, glad it went the way it did
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- Andre, man!
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- It's a good question
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- It is! A 12 year old girl running around shouting about being Inigo Montoya!
- Martin Jay on Habermas on 1700 years of European philosophy and theology. ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/also...
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- Riding a train, reading a book, and each time you finish a page you rip it out and let it go out the window
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- This is true affluence
- I wish that shoe had hit GWB right in the face
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- You know, I am specifically wishing humiliation rather than physical harm
- Again, it's just slaves! A stupid fantasy of slaves!
- MUSK, in Riyadh: "My prediction, actually, for humanoid robots is that ultimately they will be tens of billions. I think everyone will want to have their personal robot. You can think of it like, as though you had your own personal C-3POor R2-D2. But even better. @cnbc.com $TSLA
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- I do not know this movie, but it sounds very cool --
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- Oh yeah.
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- Not especially. I am listening to that podcast about the Haditha massacre.
- I've just started reading *Tools for Conviviality* and Illich is against exactly this idea of technology. But he *also* (in 1972) thinks the medical profession has mainly since 1955 made the world worse.
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- It should, minimally, be counted as service to the profession in annual review documents -- which I believe it is in some departments?
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- What great and strange looking birds
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- They have no mouth (just that shadowy opening at the top), and they must scream!
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- They're just as scared of you as you are of them
- Dorothy Parker once wrote a list titled “Unattractive Authors Whose Works I Admire” and literary criticism peaked right there
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- I want to know more about the question mark after Dos Passos
- Important service to the community
- The restaurant of which I have maybe the fondest memories is an Ethiopian place in Paris
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- Ah hah! That's the thing, fond memories don't mean best food --
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- Many years since I've been, but Ethiopian is nearly always a good choice
- Godjo nearish to the Pantheon, and it's still there at least according to Google.
- Forgot to lock my bike up at the office, just clipped the helmet around it and went upstairs for 2.5 hours. Glad it's still here.
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- Oh, shit
- It sounds a little like a curse!
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- Ah! Ok! -- I am not a historian of Algeria at all, but thought LP was tremendous. Would be good to have a different angle on the police though.
- What a fantastic and useful book review
- I wrote about close reading. What it is, why it matters, and what John Guillory gets right and wrong in his recent On Close Reading. Offers a sneak peek of a little of what @johannawinant.bsky.social and I are up to in our forthcoming Close Reading for the 21C www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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- Not at all, it's elegantly done
- Sort of random question, but do you think one of those chapters would be good to assign alongside Cole's Lethal Provocation?
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- I am sure this is a very low priority for the wreckers, but I bet they'll also say, don't worry, there are great (for profit) alternatives!
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- It's not great!
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- !!!!
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- Conviviality is increasingly seeming to me like an important critical concept.
- Ganz reading through Nolte and Herf www.unpopularfront.news/p/does-trump...
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- Ah, nice nice nice. It's so hard to know what's going to click with students. I don't think I've ever tried subjecting them to microfilm. Our library does still have some machines, but not many, and different from the ones I spent the most time using -- all run through computers.
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- That's excellent! An important lesson -- newspapers.com makes certain kinds of things, in my opinion, too easy.
- OK having slept on it, and without having read the book in question, here is the main reason I do not like that review. OK, it's fascism, why has it been so successful? The Jacobin "clique" has a claim about that, and the review does not, does not even gesture at one.
- Maybe there is something inside the book that would help us in that direction? I don't know! There were more twitter screenshots than paragraphs discussing the texts included.
- Catchweed bedstraw :(
