It looks like we haven’t done one of these in a couple years, which is both a surprise and also totally unsurprising, because as I am fond of saying, the last several years have been a sickly pink slurry and I’ve lost track of a lot of what happened.
Read MoreSummer reading, you say? More like, “The second hellish summer we have endured while in an active pandemic, under an ineffectual national government and a malignantly stupid state government, now with an even greater likelihood of heat stroke due to accelerating climate change,” am I right?
Read MoreBut the painting was only the prestige medium for a certain period of time, and it has been superseded by other media, just as it, in turn, replaced other media. We can think of the pre-modern period as the age of sculpture or theater. We can think of the later modern period as being dominated by the novel and film. The postmodern period is dominated, largely by television.
Read MoreI also tend to do much smaller book challenges than Edgar does, specifically so I can spend more time ruminating on things. Of course, this means that I don’t explore quite as much, and often end up picking through the remainder of their omnivorous ranging for my own reading.
Read MoreIt’s been a rockier road with reading, though I see now that I said roughly the same thing the last time I subjected everyone to my reading list. I also neglected to mention what else was on my plate while I was being underwhelmed by Eugene Thacker, so we’ll start there.
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