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Alex Bravo

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  • His frantic search for sexual experience reminds me of late-blooming queers who worry how they’ll ever have gay sex if no queer their age wants to have sex with rookies. It’s a double indignity: the shame not just of undesirability but of thrusting their incompetence onto others. And Craig is not the first people pleaser who has furiously modulated their identity to match what they assume other people want, only to be accused of tediousness and insincerity.
    Tony Tulathimutte’s Rejection: A Novel for Dating Defeatists
  • Why is it such a lonely country? Out West, they experience it as a lonesome country; but the feeling of seeing a tumbleweed blow through your sense of community is universal.
    DREGINALD :: Prudence Gendron
  • “The Hollywood to the San Bernardino and straight on out, past Barstow, past Baker, driving straight on into the hard white empty core of the world.”
    Britney Spears: Blackout Album Review | Pitchfork
  • Ambient jazz albums?
    Ambient jazz albums? : r/ambientmusic
  • Misanthropy is surely one of the hazards of putting cruelty first. If it horrifies us, we must, given the facts of daily life, always be in a state of outrage, overwhelmed, like Hamlet, by the density of evil. M
    Putting Cruelty First on JSTOR
  • Seeing all this as I do, and unravelling the web of human life into its various threads of meanness, spite, cowardice, want of feeling, and want of understanding, of indifference towards others, and ignorance of ourselves, - seeing custom prevail over all excellence, itself giving way to infamy - mistaken as I have been in my public and private hopes, calculating others from myself, and calculating wrong; always disappointed where I placed most reliance; the dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; - have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hate…
    Wm. Hazlitt - "On The Pleasure Of Hating" (c.1826).
  • Unions and mass membership organizations used to bear influence over a civic universe within which politicians were actually responsive to popular pressure. As both were gutted in the neoliberal period, institutions of the middle classes, including academia, NGOs, and the media, gained more control over left-liberal discourse. The problem today is not simply that working-class institutions are still at a nadir of their power; it’s also that the PMC is trying to LARP as the subject of history. And no amount of ridiculing their absurd culture can replace a thorough historical understanding of th…
    The Pitfalls of Polemic, or How to Criticize the Crankiest Class of Critics
  • The university becomes a transient place where solidarities, not apprenticeships, occur; “criticism” names something that happens elsewhere. It is scarcely tenable, but it is increasingly criticism’s setting.
    Is This the End of Literary Studies? | The Nation
  • But teaching is a manner of focusing implement, one that accentuates all my tics and habits and obsessions and turns them into a pedagogy or framework.
    the virtues of the boring draft - by Brandon
  • River that must turn full after I stop dying Song, my song, raise grief to music Light as my loves’ thought, the few sick So sick of wrangling: thus weeping, Sounds of light, stay in her keeping And my son’s face – this much for honor
    “A” • Louis Zukofsky - Addieway Books
  • Through the space opened up by this concept I offer a development in the ways we conceptualize contemporary historical experience,especially when that experience is simultaneously at an extreme and in a zone of or- dinariness, where life building and the attrition of human life are indistin- guishable, and where it is hard to distinguish modes of incoherence, distractedness, and habituation from deliberate and deliberative activity, as they are all involved in the reproduction of predictable life.
    Slow Death (Sovereignty, Obesity, Lateral Agency) on JSTOR