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More D H Lawrence. Paging Dr Freud!

my fave memory of Fred Jameson was seeing him use a computer. he was pushing the mouse around with two hands. like a ouija board. RIP to the king

Narrative [is the] imaginary resolution of a real contradiction. - Frederick Jameson, by way of Althusser and Levi-Strauss

jameson ephemera... his list of films for a class on road movie, circa late 90s

"The pauses by Pinter. The words by Beckett. The deconstruction by Derrida. Maybe this was a masterpiece after all and we just hadn’t realised it. Keir included." Nice to see Derrida get a shout out in this piece by John Crace theguardian.com/politics/2024/…

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Desperately need some more podcasts to let me know how things stand #Election2024

An’ here I sit so patiently Waiting to find out what price You have to pay to get out of Going through all these things twice —Bob Dylan

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As the cover says, here is me ion the bizarre history of blood transfusion...

Only 'about' right.. Dylan sees the opportunity to parse that statement over 15 verses.

Literary worlds colliding this week. In Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky mentions The Last of the Mohicans, and in Graham Greene's The Honorary Counsel the main character keeps reading Borges short stories! Any other examples? #dostoevsky #grahamgreene

My article on The Early Film Writings of Chris Marker is in the latest issue of The TLS. Here's a preview... Rush to your local bookshop or newsagents to get the second half! the-tls.co.uk/arts/film/earl…

Little known picture of T. S. Eliot as an extra in the 1978 film Death on the Nile, starring Peter Ustinov as Hercule Poirot. #tseliot

A historic summer school program begins tonight! It’s the first time the The Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy has run a course on Hyppolite (tonight), Girard (Thursday) and Schmitt (Feb 10), and the last school in the Nicholson building on Swanston street mscp.org.au/courses/summer…

Just taking a moment to remember that when A J Ayer was working for the Special Operations Executive in 1941-2 he spent time in Algiers, and so may have passed an 11 year old Jacques Derrida in the street, maybe even kicked a football with him... #Ayer #Derrida

✨ New online: Peter Salmon on the bizarre history of blood transfusion newhumanist.org.uk/articles/6371

Camille Paglia is heroic and insightful about gender identity but she is not right about Derrida and post-structuralism. As Peter Salmon brings out in his biography Derrida did not deny the reality beyond words but celebrated it deeply in ways that the avowedly mystical Paglia

One of my favourite folk myths in the UK is 'The Days When Postage Was Cheaper'. Love how the person serving at the post office always winces as they say something like, "It's going to be £1.49, is that ok?"

Lower Brinsop Writers’ House is open for applications! Stay at a C15th Hall House in Herefordshire country for up to 2 months. International fellowships by invitation. Published writers, artists & musicians contact us for residency opportunities. whitehousebrinsop.com