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Both David Cronenberg and Stephanie LaCava ask us to consider the potential appeal of a lover who cannot be hurt, and LaCava, in particular, also suggests that we think about who exactly might be looking for a partner of this kind. newrepublic.com/article/169247…

Two erotic-philosophical fantasies about knowledge: ashesandsparks.substack.com/p/paragone-cca

Sexy stuff:

I didn't see any satisfactory answers to this question Yes, books are good for transmitting data. But if that's all they do, Vitalik's implied point is right: They'll be made obsolete by digital media But there's a more important justification for books: machinewar.substack.com/p/a-response-t…

Promissory note open.substack.com/pub/ashesandsp…

James Ellroy’s biographer does not mince words about the writer’s “voracious appetite for women.” Bloomsbury Academic trib.al/O9bHXZA

For TANK, I wrote about my obsession with Terry Gilliam's 1996 time-travel film 12 Monkeys, a film that now seems prophetic not just of the recent pandemic, but of the simultaneous emergence of predictive AI and ubiquitous surveillance. tankmagazine.com/issue-94/featu…

Meet me in Philadelphia open.substack.com/pub/ashesandsp…

Meet me in Philadelphia open.substack.com/pub/ashesandsp…

Where nothing ever happens open.substack.com/pub/ashesandsp…

"It was too much like a resurrection from the dead, still smelling of the cerements, and consequently too much tinged with forgiveness. How could everyone forgive each other, and themselves, so much?" open.substack.com/pub/ashesandsp…

Anabasis open.substack.com/pub/ashesandsp…

Ask any one of us. We had spent so many days under the trees, never wandering, never lost, yet lacking everything except that one direction that made our going possible. ashesandsparks.substack.com/p/anabasis

It was like being with a woman, almost—something I still remembered; that I still, from time to time, dreamed of, even desired. ashesandsparks.substack.com/p/anabasis

Letter 8 open.substack.com/pub/ashesandsp…

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On Louise Glück’s Marigold and Rose open.substack.com/pub/ashesandsp…