May 2010
15 posts
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Details’ 1996 Profile of David Foster Wallace « Craig Fehrman http://bit.ly/bfSoQZ # Powered by Twitter Tools
May 17th
Rushdie’s Archive at Emory →
Two weeks ago, Emory unveiled an archive of the notebooks and manuscripts of Salman Rushdie. But, this archive is more significant than you might imagine. Rushdie’s archive is the first to be …
May 13th
Allegory Of The Cave →
Via Allegory Of The Cave .
May 12th
Jorge Luis Borges’ Encyclopedia →
Then I came to the idea of how fine it would be to think of an encyclopedia of an actual world, and then of an encyclopedia, a very rigorous one of course, of an imaginary world, where…
May 12th
Bullet in the Brain Video →
Thanks Jeremy!
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stevenberlinjohnson.com: The Glass Box And The Commonplace Book http://bit.ly/aQgTiE # stevenberlinjohnson.com: The Glass Box And The Commonplace Book: http://bit.ly/aQgTiE # Gary…
May 10th
An Evening of Transrational Sound Poetry →
For big fans of Russian Futurism in general and fans of Alexei Kruchenykh and Velimir Khlebnikov, there is a bunch of videos of zaum’ being translated and re-enacted in English over at the…
May 6th
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical... →
Magician and surgeon compare to painter and cameraman. The painter maintains in his work a natural distance from reality, the cameraman penetrates deeply into its web. There is a tremendous…
May 6th
A Debate on the Google Book Settlement →
When Google began its initiative in 2004 to digitize 15 million books within a decade from university and public libraries, the project was met with immediate resistance…
May 6th
Longform Offers Hand-Crafted Links →
Longform.org is devoted towards curated links and an ever-present minimalism. Rather than blurbs or 140 characters of analysis, editors Aaron Lammer and Max Linsky post articles that they…
May 5th
There Is No Lenin Pig →
Christopher Hitchens re-reads Animal Farm There is, however, one very salient omission. There is a Stalin pig and a Trotsky pig, but no Lenin pig. Similarly, in Nineteen Eighty-Four we…
May 5th
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May 3rd