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In Fond Memory of Jerry Rothenberg (1931-2024)
I am still on my “book break”, but I wanted to share here a brief notice in memory of my friend and great inspiration, the poet Jerry Rothenberg, who…
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The New Yorker on the “Crisis of Attention”
And a Long Interview on Sakha, on Oral Epic, on Why Philosophers Should Study Indigenous Languages, &c.
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The Cancellation Policy
“When attractive opportunities abound… we are apt to be willing to pay a little and accept some small, even trivial cost of doing business for access to…
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“HR Managers of the Human Soul”
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Neo-Utilitarians Are Utter Philistines
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What Are the Humanities?
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Proust’s Panmnemonicon
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Writing Is a Bad Habit
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Cultural Strip-Mining for an Exhausted Age
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For Those Who’d Prefer Not To
On Democracy, Technology, and the False Promises of Universal Participation
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Fear the Eclipse
Why “Ancient Superstition” Was Preferable to Whatever We're Doing Now
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Neo-Utilitarians Are Utter Philistines
1. Here on the banks of the Seine it can be hard to notice new trends in the Anglosphere before they have already arrived in the phase of their full…
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The Storyteller
I am old and my memory is not what it used to be, but if I recall correctly it was in 1948 that I first came up, in a fit of inspiration, with the basic…
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The Reeds and the Silt
“The starry heavens above me and the moral law within[, and the sediments of the Memel, and the amber deposits at Palmnicken, and the moss on the rocks…
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An Ocean of Data
By the time I finish writing this sentence, vastly more data will have been generated around the world than was produced in the entire 18th century…
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Occupation: Jean Cocteau
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