Marshall McLuhan and Norman Mailer saw so far into the future (bc it was already present in the 60s and its evolution algorithmically obvious) that people today have not even caught up.
Deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Many young people today live under the yoke of expectations to perform, immersed in an exasperated competitiveness that generates anxiety, fear of not measuring up, and disorientation.
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The My Martin Amis podcast is going LIVE in London again on 25 AUGUST 2026 (Amis’s birthday, it just so happens🍸)
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If you have dedicated your life to words and books and literature and language, you have my respect and I will be collegial in all my relations and interactions with you. I think we owe each other that in this strange age, in which our trade, our passion, goes so against the tide
🚨 ANNOUNCEMENT!
The My Martin Amis podcast is going LIVE in London again on 25 AUGUST 2026 (Amis’s birthday, it just so happens🍸)
🎉 AFTER AMIS 🎉 takes you from noon to midnight with one fabulous conversation after another, culminating in an afterparty for the ages.
We’ll also be celebrating the launch of the Cambridge Companion to Martin Amis, produced by @CambridgeUP
More detail to follow.
Note it in your calendars. This is going to be something special.
.@MbeDuke’s take one of the best re #usykrico – Usyk never underestimates his opponents, but when a boxer fights a novice, they often don’t know how to estimate their opponent at all.
“From a psychological perspective, you can’t raise your game.”
https://t.co/fOSSZaJVL9
As I watched #usykrico, I wondered whether this could be true, but I don’t buy the idea that a boxer ever drags a fight out longer than they have to, just so an audience gets more bang for its buck. This is the first time we’ve seen Usyk’s accounts attempt to manage the public’s perception of a performance, something normally only lesser fighters do. @highfieldboxing
Glory in Giza may not have been a big upset, but it should upset Usyk's former opponents in the division to reflect on the fact that none of them were able to generate anything like the same weather in the ring against the champ as Rico managed to last night. #usykrico
It’s making someone work when they don’t want to, that and the constant head movement and unconventional style Rico doing much better than I expected #UsykRico