- historical inertia and unexamined habit
- an emotional understanding devoid of logic
- From Redesigning Cormac McCarthy's Brutal 'Blood Meridian' by Bobby Solomon (via Kottke)
- I'll say this could also be a very good anthology name
- Of a Patchwork of Extractive Regimes
- lil' knock knock (from @elbow-jason in a work Zoom 🤣)
- it seemed right to style it in all lowercase.
- The Curse of Dimensionality
- @billylanchantin
- The Pyramids of My Insecurity
- discussing making emotional progress on certain topics
- Serendipitous Spanners
- Pessimism Barbie (🙋🏽♀️)
- A Heteroglossic Wonderland
- Viscoelastic Creep
- Paradigms of Control
- industrial metal with synth pop B-sides, via Shane
- fiery bubbles of doom
- Empirical Accident
- Reading in 2012:
- Victorian Middle-Class Shorthand for Madness
- Workaday Paranoia and Aeronautic Abandon
- a trip to the museum:
- Fragment of a Female Head
- Packing for Martyrs
- Scuttlebut Grumps
- Freakishly Frivolous
- Atmospheric Menace
- Rigor of Pedagogy
- Syntactic Sugar
- A Distillation of Spite ❤️
- uninitialized constant
- Existentially Fraught Free Throws
- Humidity and Parsnips
- The Nihilistic Embrace
- Unkempt Nihilism
- Coronal Consonants
- Craven and Insular
- from JA:
- Heathen Vision (Possible album title: Tombstones)
- Mr. Mermaid (album: Jaunty Dolphin)
- the bright and sustained return
- Source: Icons of Sound: Auralizing the Lost Voice of Hagia Sophia, re: the way performers can make use of the Hagia Sofia's design with their harmonies.
- In the Extraordinary Form of the liturgy
- Source: reading about Pentacost on Wikipedia, this phrase appears in the description of Western churches' Pentacost celebrations. How did I even get here? I was listening (again!) to auralization "Teleutaion" (hagiasophia.stanford.edu) and went looking up what "cathedral vespers on Pentecost" even means.
- a powerful quantum vortex in a tank of superfluid helium
- in dialectical tension with each other
- My failures, quotidian and spectacular
- the periphrastic construction of identity itself
- Synchronous Transition in Complex Object Control
- The title of a paper linked in Food & Wine's "How Humans Walk and Carry a Cup of Coffee Is a Bit of a Physics Mystery", via Tom & Lorenzo's loung post for September 9, 2021
- Instead I endured mere perfection.
- From Bill Addison's "Chez Panisse reimagined the way we eat. After 50 years, is that enough? in the LA Times; h/t a Helen Rosner tweet.
- Both a necessity and a terrifying liability
- In a blistering amicus brief Friday
- This is I'm guessing, an album full of wonderfully melodic singles with lyrics people don't grok until a few listens in and then they fall out when it all clicks (from The Washngton Post: U.S. men’s soccer team backs women in equal-pay fight, saying USWNT should have been paid more
- The bourgeois cultural lingua franca of academia
- Absolutely a punk album title (from Tressie McMillan Cottom's newsletter issue, "Let's Talk About Tenure")
- An array of indifferent watercolors
- from A Treacherous Curse by Deanna Raybourn
- The sonic energy exhaled in the interior
- From the explanation on auralizations in a project about the Hagia Sophia
- A better line of work than motherfucking vigilance
- From Dessa's song "Fire Drills"
- a certain kind of suburban basement ethos
- From New Republic's article, "The GameStop Saga Shows How Casino Capitalism Is Eating the World"
- This would definitely have to be a Stranger Things-esque vaporwave album, right?
- Your Systematic Overthinking of Superfluous Details
- From the caption of horses in Andalusia in Magnum Photographers Turn Their Lenses on the Start of a New Year in Vogue
- In Argument of Perihelion
- from general information about Planet Nine in the Star Walk iOS app
- Summoned into Sympathetic Vibration
- from Robin Sloan's newsletter, 23 Dec 2020
- Tasked with the job of municipal plunder
- From Ta-Nehisi Coates's essay "The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration"
- A sea of empty posturing
- from Jay Smooth's "How To Tell Someone They Sound Racist"
- conducive to the outbreak of a revolutionary
- the molten, ever-present eye of a merciless star
- The Crux of Our Solitude
- The Poetics of the Sustainable Kitchen (from Just Enough Research by Erika Hall
- From tweets (of mine) that no longer exist because Twitter (as I'd care to use it) no longer exists:
- Pleasure of Intuition by Rigor of Pedagogy
- preaching Serious Literature to the elbow patches
- Clarification in the Abstract
- unexplained and inexplicable
- the catastrophic consequences of likeability
- the ouroboros of inequality
- I like HTTP status codes over embedded success indicators
- From @bleything
- Spill your impossible scripture
- Dominique Christina's "The Period Poem" via @keavy
- The bandwagon of my uncertainty
- Human nature (together with the operation of time)
- From The Word Choices That Explain Why Jane Austen Endures, via @tiffehr)
- "Do not be wedded forever to fear"
- From Maya Angelou's "On the pulse of morning"
- "This is the ballad of aspirational bourgeois existence."
- From The Shopping Cure edition of Anne Helen Petersen's newsletter, The Culture Study
- "…the mise en abyme of mimetic desire…"
- "So really, the contest comes down to two grown men squabbling over a shared delusion…"
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