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Jenny Odell: The Myth of Self-Reliance (The Paris Review)
Jenny Odell: The Myth of Self-Reliance (The Paris Review)
I saw that I had absorbed from my family and my upbringing a specific brand of individualism, valorizing and transmitting it unknowingly. I’d done this throughout my entire life, but especially in How to Do Nothing. Around my favored versions of contemplative solitude, so similar to Emerson’s, a whole suite of circumstances appeared in full relief, like something coming into focus. The women in the kitchen made the mens’ conversation possible, just as my trip to the mountain—and really all of my time spent walking, observing, and courting the “over-soul”—rested upon a long list of privileges, from the specific (owning a car, having the time), to the general (able-bodied, upper-middle-class, half white and half “model minority,” a walkable neighborhood in a desirable city, and more). There was an entire infrastructure around my experience of freedom, and I’d been so busy chasing it that I hadn’t seen it.
·theparisreview.org·
Jenny Odell: The Myth of Self-Reliance (The Paris Review)
Bookshop
Bookshop
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·bookshop.org·
Bookshop
Woke
Woke
An Amazon.com Wishlist by Erica Joy (@ericajoy) with books about black America. Added to GoodReads here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/3519627-matthew-mcvickar?shelf=erica-joy-woke-list&view=table
·amazon.com·
Woke
The Morning News: This Is Not a George Plimpton Interview
The Morning News: This Is Not a George Plimpton Interview
‘Every artist deals with critics differently—Richard Ford spitting on Colson Whitehead, for example. But the rule is to avoid direct contact. Not for John Warner, debut novelist, who decided to seek out the man behind his worst review.’
·themorningnews.org·
The Morning News: This Is Not a George Plimpton Interview
An Open Letter to Cursor by Richard Eoin Nash | TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home
An Open Letter to Cursor by Richard Eoin Nash | TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home
"I’m afraid of what the systematic harnessing of communities will result in." Specifically, he's afraid that it will result in a) fans wasting their time and money and b) the artist being relegated to the sidelines while context and 'engagement' take over. Valid fears if you ask me, and exactly the sort of the thing that Matt LeMay outlines in the MBV post 'Living in the Age of Art vs Content' (http://www.mbvmusic.com/2010/10/19/living-in-the-age-of-art-vs-content/26911).
·teleread.com·
An Open Letter to Cursor by Richard Eoin Nash | TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home
Goodreads: Kevin Fanning reviews 'Twilight'
Goodreads: Kevin Fanning reviews 'Twilight'
Basically: It's sometimes amateurish, and there's troubling misogyny, but is that so bad? I say, and I think this is what Kevin is getting at, is that the age-old paradigm of adults worrying about young minds being influenced by media is a bit more complicated -- I think more than a new idea being introduced and etched onto a young mind by 'Twilight', the more likely circumstance is that the ideas therein subtly reinforce existing ideas that the child is already exposed to.
·goodreads.com·
Goodreads: Kevin Fanning reviews 'Twilight'
Harper's: Blood and time: Cormac McCarthy and the twilight of the West
Harper's: Blood and time: Cormac McCarthy and the twilight of the West
A great profile of the author, who wrote "No Country for Old Men". "At its root, McCarthy's fiction arises from the tragedy of all wild creatures, of whatever is begotten, born, and dies, the tragedy of autonomous life in a world increasingly circumscribed by a rage for order and captivity. More than merely human. It is the tragedy of warm blood itself, of blood and time."
·harpers.org·
Harper's: Blood and time: Cormac McCarthy and the twilight of the West
Open Library: About Us
Open Library: About Us
"What if there was a library which held every book? Not every book on sale, or every important book, or even every book in English, but simply every book." Aaron Swartz is at it again!
·demo.openlibrary.org·
Open Library: About Us