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I thank Thinklings Books for making me grin at this double play. I asked a librarian if she had a book on Pavlov’s dog and Schrödinger’s cat. She said it rang a bell, but she wasn’t sure if it was … Continue reading →

What was written: Our bodies grew stranger, to ourselves, to each other. Maggie Nelson The Argonauts What is being read: Our bodies grow strange, to ourselves, to each other. Morphological mutations. Temporal dislocations. Semantic shifts. And so for day 2920 … Continue reading →

Hilton Als The Women The speaker in relation to his mother … She spent many hours with me in the dark, in her bedroom, listening to me lie. Somehow she knew that most writers became writers after having spent their … Continue reading →

Lisa Robertson The Baudelaire Fractal which I always want to call the Fractal Baudelaire It’s a novel. It’s about subject positions. p. 85 If I repeat the word girl very often, it’s for those who, like me, prefer the short … Continue reading →

Julie Joosten Nought “Swoon Revolt” in its exploratory beneath-the-skin approach to organs this reminds of Monique Wittig Les guérillères. For example … Have you ever wondered what it would be to caress the liver, the spleen, a kidney with the … Continue reading →

Encyclopédie entry on logic … from finding to transferring … Comme pour penser juste il est nécessaire de bien appercevoir, de bien juger, de bien discourir, & de lier méthodiquement ses idées ; il suit de-là que l’appréhension ou perception, … Continue reading →

Lisa Robertson Nilling Worth quoting at length because it reminds us of that the private/public split is not impermeable, not universal, not unhistorical. In Indo-European Language and Society, Benveniste analyzes the Latin worlds “Civis” and “Domus,” finding that the earliest … Continue reading →