@mitchellvii What Miller is articulating is called authoritarianism. It’s emphatically anti-American. In America we have a system of governance that is predicated on institutional checks and balances—particularly for a president who won a razor-thin election.
@detachment_red If cooking and cleaning gets anything they want but 2 or more = sex does that mean the person who wrote the list is disincentivizing them since apparently sex isn’t something they want?
@blgtylr I enjoyed Anahid Nersessian’s The Calamity Form, but the name is derived from Marx’s concept of the commodity form so maybe it’s not up your alley.
Also, what were Lorentzen’s recs?
Non coincidentally, Curtis Yarvin once wrote something to the effect of if you condemn Anders Breivik and praise Nelson Mandela perhaps you have a mother you’d like to fuck.
Neo-Nazi terrorist and convicted mass murderer Anders Breivik, who killed 77 people in Norway in 2011, cited this same Napoleon quote in his manifesto.
@bernardtjoy “Circe” because it has my favorite lines in literature: “Stephen: Nothung! (He lifts his ashplant high and its both hands and smashes the chandelier. Time’s livid final flame leaps and, in the following darkness, ruin of space, shattered glass and topping masonry.)
@bernardtjoy I guess I don’t understand why an English professor (or any professor in the humanities) would see themselves as primarily training their students to be professionals. Does Gwynn teach only graduate level classes?
There are 10 times more Irish people (people with predominantly Irish heritage) in North America than in Ireland.
There are more Irish people in Sydney than in Dublin.
They displaced the natives. They are settlers.
Nah, this isn’t filmmaking, but poetry. It is Tarkovsky reaching his highest level of introspection, functioning on another level. His ability to find pockets where time remains stagnant, yet incredibly alive, is unrivaled. Nostalghia is going to haunt me for the rest of my life.