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american audiences catching strays

its beginning to feel like postmodernism is a diagnosis of exclusion

a world where anything goes that can be negotiated !

the section on postmodern technological life being fragmented is the most relatable thing i've read in a while - i have been complaining about this exact thing for the past year or so as i have felt more and more oversaturated with the constant access. drove me away from social media, the internet generally, and even responding to texts. social saturation.

"naming music that is nearly a hundred years old postmodern is not willfully perverse..."

lol

speedrun get ready set go

“…in the ninth (ninth!) edition…”

i fear he missed his true calling as a comedian

death by misadventure

stalinists really just love ignoring the whole support for hitler thing…

this reads how my brain thinks

the cigar biting your lips
the way love used to.

marxism doesn’t account for human nature!

literally lenin:

[utopian ideas] “…serve only to postpone the socialist revolution until people are different. No, we want the socialist revolution with people as they are now, with people who cannot dispense with subordination, control, and “foreman and accountants”.

"The Sick Woman is someone diagnosed with a chronic illness, whose family and friends continually tell them they should exercise more."

Ann Cvetkovich writes: “What if depression, in the Americas, at least, could be traced to histories of colonialism, genocide, slavery, legal exclusion, and everyday segregation and isolation that haunt all of our lives, rather than to be biochemical imbalances?”

i swear i must’ve just been significantly stupider the past 2 times i tried and failed to read this

well yknow what they say. a wrong note played with conviction is an interpretation.

"Our souls, shamewounded by our sins, cling to us yet more, a woman to her lover clinging, the more the more. She trusts me, her hand gentle, the longlashed eyes. Now where the blue hell am I bringing her beyond the veil? Into the ineluctable modality of the ineluctable visuality. She, she, she. What she?"

james dont do this to me rn

he's such a clear writer

one can only take so much john cage

it took me this long to finally understand the law of quantity into quality

why are marx and engles so sassy

reading this book reminds me distinctly of what it felt like to green out

i am just straight up not vibing with this