october 2024
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boneglueIn the Freud Archives, Janet Malcolm. 1984. 165pp. University library.
Psychoanalysis: The Impossible Profession, Janet Malcolm. 1981. 174pp. University library.
Iphigenia in Forest Hills, Janet Malcolm. 2011. 155pp. University library.
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The Last Emperor, Edward Behr. 1987. 327pp. University library.
Essay: "Complicity 1".
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The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler. 1939. 277pp. Charity book sale.
The Detections of Totality, Fredric Jameson. 2016. 81pp. Accessible here.
- “Thus, the work of art itself, although exhibited in that worldly place which is the museum, and drawn into a web of social and worldly relationships—those of sale and investment, interpretation and evaluation, pedagogy, tradition, savred reference—must always somehow scandalously exceed all those worldly relationships in the ultimate and irreducible materiality of its earthly element that cannot become social, the color that cannot be made altogether human.” (79)
- “For now, at the end, all the events of the book are seen in a new and depressing light: all that energy and activity wasted to find somebody who had in reality been dead for so long, for whom the time of the present was little more than a process of slow physical dissolution. And suddenly, at the thought of that dissolution, and of the mindless lack of identity of the missing person so long called by name, the very appearance of life itself, of time in the present, of the bustling activity of the outside world, is stripped away and we feel in its place the presence of graves beneath the bright sunlight; the present fades to little more than a dusty, once-lived moment which will quickly take its place in the back years of an old newspaper file. And our formal distraction at last serves its fundamental purpose: by diverting us with the ritual generic aim of the detection of the criminal and of his transformation into the Other, it is able to bring us up short, without warning, against the reality of death itself, stale death, reaching out to remind the living of its own moldering resting place.” (81)
Vita contemplativa, Byung-Chul Han, transl. Daniel Steuer. 2022, transl. 2024. 120pp. Local library.
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Making Middle-Class Multiculturalism, Jennifer Elrick. 2022. 242pp.
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The Pale King, David Foster Wallace. 2015. 548pp. Local library.
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High-Rise, J.G. Ballard. 1975. 253pp. Local library.
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Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice. 1974. No idea where I got my copy. It is simply my birthright. I’m actually not sure I exchanged money to obtain my copy of any of the books in this series, even though I somehow own five. Essays forthcoming.
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Notable short stories, essays, and papers:
- “Notes on the Difficulty of Studying the State” (1988), Philip Abrams.
- “Postmodernism” (1984), Fredric Jameson.
Movies and TV:
- Yesterday (2019) dir. Danny Boyle
- Farewell, my Concubine (1993) dir. Chen Kaige
- Seven Samurai (1954) dir. Akira Kurosawa