now having seen the doc i can say that despite her best efforts i did not find Elizabeth Holmes’s faux-naïf persona convincing, nor did i find her sympathetic except in one very limited respect: her irritating habit of whipping out words like “annealed” in casual conversation
every other impression tends to really overplay the sniffling nose-rub. but Zižek’s essence is more spread across all of his manic gestures and his speaking rhythms. she even has his fast-paced thinking and reading style down pat.
when she (or Seyfried via transcript, i think) said, “our love has been ‘annealed’ in this forge” or whatever it was, i had this doubled-up, contradictory feeling—essentially: “that sounds so cliche and insincere, just repugnant… fuck, what a great word though.”
On John Berger’s 100th birthday, read Andrew Holter’s interview with Tom Overton, author of the new biography John Berger: From Life.
“It’s quite hard to codify Berger as a critic… but when he feels that something does work, there’s a sense of inevitability to it.”
Link below.
President Trump has been asking advisers around him and on the phone whether Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth should stay in his job, following Republicans' losses Tuesday night, multiple sources familiar with the matter tell CBS News.
Some White House aides have predicted some of the blame for GOP midterm losses will be trained on Adm. Brad Cooper, the head of U.S. Central Command, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine, who both played big roles in guidance on Iran war.
Read more: https://t.co/Lv17RnHC9F
"When Darwish asks 'Ghassan Kanafani, who are you?' he is not asking Kanafani but the rest of us: How well do we know him or ourselves, then or now?"
Fady Joudah on Mahmoud Darwish and the West's image of Palestine: https://t.co/iekWAhnltn
an article on this tactic and several others that the admin is deploying to intimidate, disenfranchise, and/or manipulate voters: https://t.co/3UU0Q036zc