Quirk Your Enthusiasm (16)
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Talking Heads’ “Life During Wartime” — a mantra for our paranoid days.
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Tim Carmody writes about technology and culture for Wired, The Verge, The Atlantic, Newsweek, The Message, and more. He blogs about a little bit of everything at Snarkmarket and on Twitter as @tcarmody.
Herc Your Enthusiasm (10)
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Tim Carmody on Afrika Bambaataa’s “Jazzy Sensation” (1981)
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Stéphane Mallarmé
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“It is not at all with ideas that one makes poetry. It is with words.”
Read This PostGeorg Simmel
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He tried to explain both new modes of being and new social structures.
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Gertrude Stein
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Each “mistake” or transposition of logic and syntax carried a shift in meaning.
Read This PostFritz Lang
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He tapped into the era’s anxieties — crime, mechanization, new media.
Read This PostMax Weber
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The scholar must study the consequences of politics and other inconvenient facts.
Read This PostLangston Hughes
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Audio recordings of LANGSTON HUGHES (1902-67) are disarmingly contemporary. On those recordings, he sounds like no one more than his least likely heir, Allen Ginsberg, who borrowed both his incorporation of loose musical forms from […]
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