"'The Stone Door' can initially seem puzzling...[but] the seemingly disjointed narrative strands coalesce to form the story of the opening of the stone door and a metaphorical journey between one world and the next."
Eliza Browning on Leonora Carrington
https://t.co/VCvcj08YRo
As Higher Education editor at @PublicBooks, I asked experts—thinkers, scholars, teachers, organizers—for short essays outlining one positive change we can work towards in higher ed, no matter who currently occupies the White House. Our roundtable series begins publishing today.
A friend from LA sent me this photo of a painting by Noah Davis (1983-2015) from a survey of the tragically short-lived artist’s work at @hammer_museum. Shook us to the core. Davis captured a visionary moment—the sight of history’s weight on the shoulders of a passing figure…
An excellent piece, and this point is vital: the humanities easily pay for themselves. Their destruction is nothing more than a determination to steal money.
Jia Zhangke's 'Caught by the Tides,' one of the year's most essential films, is now on @criterionchannl.
It leads our streaming picks of the week: https://t.co/X1jZiJajJU
Remember that time lost media wiki had an article up for 8 years about a lost album no one could find and it turns out it was on soulseek for the past 20 years
my thanks to Andy Perluzzo for stats help, and @BrandyLJensen for editing @DefectorMedia
but I am to blame and will see myself out
https://t.co/iXdH1YMgLd
KOKO: Koko birkin bag. Practical Koko possession bag
RESEARCHER: No, Koko. You can’t have a Birkin bag.
KOKO: Good Birkin good Koko give beautiful Koko deserve gorilla
RESEARCHER: Koko, we simply can’t afford a Birkin bag. It is an unjustifiable expense.
KOKO: jealousy professor
What work can genre do today? Can the genre system become more than a method of reductive containment and market segmentation—can it be a generative source of imaginative chaos? Ponder this question and more with Lauren Beukes and Andrew Pepper! https://t.co/zeAF01o28u
Remembering Fred #Jameson. Duke's Literature Program has now put up the video of the memorial gathering it hosted for Fred Jameson. Feel free to share the link: https://t.co/McpnPh12iO
doing dishes and had the thought “the sink helps you with water”. such a hauntingly dimwitted sentence to produce that im actually a bit frightened now. there’s no way the brain that produced that thought is capable of making something of my life. time will tell