Harries, Martin. Scare Quotes from Shakespeare: Marx, Keynes, and the Language of Reenchantment. Stanford, 2000. Knox, Ronald A. Essays in Satire. 1928. Kennikat, 1968. Applies Higher Criticism to British literature–intended to amuse and instruct. Vollmann, William. Rising Up and Rising Down. Vol I. McSweeney’s, 2003. Strange.
Where the equivalent of Critique of Cynical Reason sells 40,000 copies in its first few months. I don’t think Empire compares well, but what were its American sales figures? There were about 60 million people in West Germany when it was published, so that’d roughly 200,000 copies here now. I’ve heard that the publishing industry [...]
But I just learned via this NYT Magazine profile of David Cronenberg that After “The Dead Zone,” Cronenberg spent most of 1984 writing 12 drafts of a screenplay for “Total Recall,” only to have the producer reject them all; he found himself going broke. Reitman – who says he has “always thought that David should [...]
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Books read: Coker, Christopher. The Future of War: The Re-enchantment of War in the Twenty first Century.. Blackwell, 2004. Contains many suggestive ideas, particularly about considering the digital/biological synthetico-imaginary of war. Makes somewhat puzzling and undocumented claim that SAS troops take Viagra to increase testosterone and thus aggression. De Bono, Edward. The Use of Lateral [...]
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From William Noyes’ “Paranoia. A Study of the Evolution of Systematized Delusions of Grandeur.” The American Journal of Psychology 2.3 (May, 1889): 349-375. A quote from his writings: Water contains just the same subtle qualities today as it did when Christ changed the water into wine at the marriage of Cana. But we should be [...]
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Male and female. The latter is closest, though still recognizably different than my family’s accent. Via Unfogged.
[A representative of Simon and Schuster sent me a review-copy of this book.] Chuck Klosterman can write sentences, sometimes even paragraphs, worth preserving: Another 30 percent of those 2,233 have been played less than five times, including one (The Best of Peter, Paul and Mary) I’ve never even listened to once–it’s still wrapped in cellophane [...]
