daniel adler

metamodernism | thinking | art | mfa @uofsc | phd candidate @unevadareno

[daniel adler @danielryanadler]

a note about the fourfold in durrell's alexandria quartet: https://t.co/u3NqGRf3L1

[daniel adler @danielryanadler]

this little guy must’ve flown into the window. took him a sec but he recovered and flew off unhurt

[daniel adler @danielryanadler]

first thursday in portland tonight--i've heard it's mostly bridge and tunnel crowd now, and i guess i'm part of the problem

[daniel adler @danielryanadler]

the chatbots are getting more confident in their replies, more resistant to critique and admitting they’re wrong

[daniel adler @danielryanadler]

A river does not want to go anywhere. It wants to grow bigger and deeper.

[daniel adler @danielryanadler]

when a student says deadass to me it's never a good sign

[Verso Books @VersoBooks]

Fredric Jameson was born on this day in 1934.

To honor the great writer's life, we've discounted his titles and encourage everyone to read the works he produced in his 90 years.

https://t.co/yRTUUJ7oHD

[daniel adler @danielryanadler]

i object to the pre-digested affective-moral position of much recent art: structural ambiguity and you're supposed to feel a certain way when you're done consuming. brings art ever closer to entertainment.

[daniel adler @danielryanadler]

@wdavidmarx remarkable how contemporary aesthetics presupposes a political dimension--i think of it as an inability to keep form and allegorical interpretation separate

[daniel adler @danielryanadler]

while watching panahi's it was just an accident, i learned that tehran and reno's climates are remarkably similar

[daniel adler @danielryanadler]

filho's bacarau was surprisingly weak: premised on allegorical literalness, affective immediacy, and moral over-resolution, it already feels dated, a protest movie which like much art in the streaming era, tells you exactly how to feel. i only hope the secret agent is better.

[daniel adler @danielryanadler]

spring break brazil curriculum so far:
rio, zona norte
falsa loura
the devil to pay in the backlands

[daniel adler @danielryanadler]

finally read mansfield park. even if fanny is a prig, her judgment redeems her. i was more shocked by the resolution of cousin marriage than any of the other scandals.

[daniel adler @danielryanadler]

who is going to campinas for the philosophy and literature conference?

[daniel adler @danielryanadler]

i've entered my aeropress era

[daniel adler @danielryanadler]

i am translating structures of meaning—mythic, philosophical, historical—into contemporary forms that preserve seriousness without dogma

[daniel adler @danielryanadler]

but ultimately its postmodern skepticism prevents it from reaching the heights of great novels, such as nausea, for example, which offers a more affirmative risk at its end

[daniel adler @danielryanadler]

i'm reading john fowles' the magus years after my high school english teacher suggested the strangeness of revising a novel after publishing it. having searched for the original (1965), i finally decided to read the one available (1978) and i am pleased to say i am enjoying it

[daniel adler @danielryanadler]

re the monuments show @MOCAlosangeles: a future with more diverse monuments, sure, and not just racially but intellectually—artists, thinkers, writers, astronauts. Towards a people unburdened by history with the imagination to change things; not just taking down but building up.

[daniel adler @danielryanadler]

the oranges from the trees in pershing square are some of the juiciest i’ve had in a long time

[daniel adler @danielryanadler]

jupiter before leda