June 2012
“Luzhin was indeed tired. Lately he had been playing too frequently and too...”
– The peerless Vladimir Nabakov in The Luzhin Defense (via suhrith)
THURAM! →
one of my favourite bloggers, laurent dubois of @soccerpolitics, interviews lilian thuram about racism in football and in world society. flawless as ever.
the museum of endangered sounds →
surprise! does exactly what it says on the tin — curates technological sounds we are hearing less and less every day. via alexis madrigal at the atlantic.
guerrilla mama medicine: who's got his own →
guerrillamamamedicine:
and in thinking about black cool.
i am thinking towards the argument, well, the reason that new world black culture has become globally ‘cool’ is because the us is a global empire. hell, its THE global empire.
but i think its more nuanced than that. in part i think that the reason that the us…
and what gets me is that... →
guerrillamamamedicine:
and what gets me is that hip hop *is* global. and that points to a problem.
the appropriation of black cool.
i think at its core, that is what bothers me about this conversation, how it was started, and how it has developed. is that in all this, we arent talking about how like everyone, globally, appropriates black cool to their own purposes.
and ive lived and...
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“The world, unfortunately, is real; I, unfortunately, am Borges.”
– Borges A New Refutation of Time (via magnificentruin)
May 2012
borges could have written a four-page story about... →
subashini:
roswitha:
i don’t think i’ve read anything about pamuk and the museum of innocence, so uninteresting has it hitherto seemed, but elif batuman’s essay on the novel — and the museum — is full of gems.
This line is delicious. I temporarily forgive Batuman for her past remarks on “developing nations” with “no literary traditions”.
she counter-attacked my resentment over that essay...
borges could have written a four-page story about... →
i don’t think i’ve read anything about pamuk and the museum of innocence, so uninteresting has it hitherto seemed, but elif batuman’s essay on the novel — and the museum — is full of gems.
hemingway grew to dislike other writers not... →
andrew o’hagan, terrific on the bullshit and the bullshit-detection of hemingway.
“I think I am a genius,
but not a rebel.
I have my life, my world,
I do what I...”
– The Love Song of Mario Balotelli, words by mario, versifying by ayjay.
pheromone dating. →
i don’t find this outside the realm of common sense. is not that strange?
colonial history survives well in the mouth; it’s... →
elaine castillo on mother tongues, unfamiliarities and the problem with prescriptive typography.
BRING IT TO INDIA! →
irfan husain on the shrew in urdu at the globe theatre’s ongoing 37 plays in 37 languages festival.
(on a scale of one to world cup 2014, my desire to attend this will have ranked a 9.5. another time perhaps.)