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Jul 27, 2017

On Twin Peaks: The Return, and the Present Delerium

Note: Spoilers below for Twin Peaks: The Return, Parts 1–11. 1989 comes to a small northwestern town, just as it comes to every other place. This town, sheltered by the rains and forests of Washington State, is called Twin Peaks. And in 1989, Twin Peaks becomes a place so unlike…

Fiction

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Fiction

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Jun 21, 2017

Reductions: The Consumer and the Critic

I’m going to go ahead and post some more abstract notes, developing some ideas I’ve had floating around for a while. This is related to this post and this post, where you’ll find what I was then calling the Aspect Aesthetic (I think I need a better name). This is…

Philosophy

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Reductions: The Consumer and the Critic
Reductions: The Consumer and the Critic
Philosophy

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Apr 7, 2017

A Manifesto, dedicated to Fernando Pessoa

Your style is a straitjacket. You’ve figured out what you think is beautiful, and what kind of work you’re committed to, and what kind of character you have as an artist, and this is your protective stance as you present yourself to the world. Every time you give the public…

Life Lessons

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Life Lessons

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Mar 11, 2017

Dads and Daughters and Dozing Off

John Crowley wrote about Sleep more perfectly than I could ever hope to rival, so I’ll use his words (culled from his novel Little, Big) as padding between my mutterings. “But life is wakings-up, all unexpected, all surprising. On a certain November afternoon, twelve years ago, from a certain nap…

Sleep

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Sleep

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Feb 22, 2017

A Defense Against the Dark Clouds

It’s hard to think about anything but politics these days. I’m not the first to notice this. It’s a known issue, especially within the media-elite bubble of anxiety and outrage. …

Writing

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Writing

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Jan 6, 2017

Platitude Review: “Those who would sacrifice liberty for safety…”

A disfiguration of a Ben Franklin quote: Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Which is itself a poor flopping fish, ripped out of a sea of context, looking pretty in only the most superficial, dysfunctional way. Original quote…

Politics

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Politics

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Jan 6, 2017

An Aesthetics of Aspect

Those of us who fetishize the expressive capacities —we self-identified “creatives” and “artists” and associated communities— we have a lot of unresolved questions floating over our heads. Among these questions: who is your target audience? Do you have one, and if not, should you? What’s your obligation to the people…

Art

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An Aesthetics of Aspect
An Aesthetics of Aspect
Art

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Dec 23, 2016

The Pendulum

Driving between a daycare center and a pediatrician’s office, I heard a story on NPR about Trump’s cabinet. The lede, as I heard it, was about how Trump is organizing a coup to deregulate Wall Street. This is, of course, infuriating to me, as I thought this was one of…

Politics

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Politics

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Dec 7, 2016

The Spectacle

When lightning strikes on the horizon, we stand and gape for a moment, no matter how predictable it was, and no matter how prepared we thought we were. The hardest part about reconciling with the present moment — not submitting to it, of course, but finding the right way to…

2016 Election

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2016 Election

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Jun 2, 2016

Platitude Review: “If you’re not a liberal at 25, etc etc”

Earliest attribution, via Quote Investigator, is that this comes from a guy named Anselm Batbie, quoted by Jules Clariete, attributing the idea to Edmund Burke. The formulation that’s most relevant to my own political framework comes from a 1977 pamphlet, and was attributed to Benajmin Disraeli: “ A man who…

Aphorisms

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Aphorisms

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