“It is only too human that we wish our suffering to be gravid with significance, to indicate meaning beyond the apparently wasteful stranglings and strafings.”
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“It is only too human that we wish our suffering to be gravid with significance, to indicate meaning beyond the apparently wasteful stranglings and strafings.”
Was free on waivers earlier in the year, no? Or was he flipped then for a low pick? Also—WHY would he engage with Peeke on extension talks? Because you think Aspirot is a top 4 or something??? Otherwise he’s so expendable.
"Solitude is an elemental necessity of intellectual life, but it has been replaced by a technocratic vision of learning."
Joshua Hall on the work of literary critic Mark Edmundson: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/mark-edmundson-literary-criticism-american-university-humanities-essay/
If you’re in the Chicago area this weekend, come check out this awesome session on Philosophical Approaches to Woolf! #modernism #aesthetics
How is this still happening? Haha
This is my feeling. They should know that every other team feels like they can beat them; they have to play with that awareness and use it to be better, to push back.
The editors are delighted to announce Tareeq Jalloh as the winner of the 2025 JoAP essay prize. #philsky #philosophy #essayprize
Read the winning article 'Speech Acts and Unspeakable Raps' 👇
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Had a nice time chatting with @shaneisland.bsky.social about “aesthetic” and internet aesthetics for this wonderful piece in @washingtonpost.com
We just rewatched. A totally tragic tale of unled lives, as wonderfully analyzed in Andrew H. Miller’s book on that theme.
ICYMI: "#Aesthetics in #Grief and #Mourning"
Kathleen Higgins with Kate Warlow-Corcoran on grief as a rupture, limitations of language, art as continuity, the role of music in mourning, and the solace of suffering.
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Jack, I have a question as someone whose other major sports love is professional hockey. Why in football are managers so reluctant to make GK changes at half the way an NHL coach will yank a poorly performing goalie? I’d really love a piece on this. GV should be benched.
That’s a lot of desk copies! Congrats David :)
The short-form video has brought about a second age of orality. That’s partly because phones are addicting, and partly because America’s ruling class wants it that way.
@emmiemalone.bsky.social and @seantmurphyy.bsky.social gave killer papers on hardcore and emo thus morning. I feel lucky that I got to be on a panel with them. And it’s cool to remember that people are doing kickass work on things that I will be thinking about for a long time
You brought so much positive energy and deep knowledge to the panel! It was a treat presenting with you
My morning routine is ruined. Classes cancelled.
‘We have also freed our study from the superfluous ballast of citations and references, for they lack any direct methodological significance in studies of a nonhistorical nature […]. For the qualified reader, they are unnecessary, and for the unqualified, useless’. Dang, Bakhtin goes hard. #Goals
Meanwhile, Strawson is off deducing the affective structure and emotional contours of interpersonal life from the atmosphere of an Oxford seminar room. Don’t get me going…
My grad school work routine. Print 5 articles on some new exciting debate. Read the first half of 1 at the coffeeshop. Head to the pub. Never look at them again.
The way she cultivates a sense and feeling of a very particular place in these stories—inland FL with its muggy mysteries and dark side—is so excellent
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The anti-plane commitment is to be admired
Can't let the first anniversary of Edna O'Brien's death pass without this classic quote for The Paris Review Art of Fiction interview.
Idk—Kant just strikes me like the kind of guy that documented everything, all ‘evacuations’
Obviously they’re talking about bowel movements, right?
More needs to be said (outside Ireland) about Jack B. Yeats. His ‘Men of Destiny’ (1946) is below.
Really does
People pay a lot of money for falsehoods - Adorno (probably)