Off-Modern Onions
Off-Modern Onions
plainreading
Your basic frustrated writer who hasn’t yet figured out where she falls on the spectrum between poetry and academia. Host of the reading-focused podcast Plain Reading. Gradually finding my groove with Mastodon.
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Craig Sunter from Manchester, UK. CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons For a number of reasons, I’ve been rereading a few books. It’s been enjoyable, rediscovering turns of phrase and plot twists and characters stuck so deeply in memory, you...
Erkki Voutilainen, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons This is the second time I’ve taken this effing hat apart, unraveling hours’ worth of work and starting again from almost the very beginning. I’m not a bad knitter, but when things...
YuliaAndreeva, Repetition (1995). CC BY-SA 4.0 image via Wikimedia Commons Thanks to Simon Critchley’s use of it in Mysticism, I dove this weekend into Annie Dillard’s Holy the Firm. Dillard comes in in part to help Critchley illuminate...
Embracing the existentialists in the face of subservience to AI.
The scary podcast Uncanny draws me in with much-needed conversation
Thinking about community, beauty, and knowing your neighbors.
Lamenting powerlessness in the face of growing US authoritarianism.
A review of David Hoon Kim's Paris Is a Party, Paris Is a Ghost
Looking at the necessity of emotional freedom and the education, especially via art and literature, required to attain to it.
Consideration of Anders Kølle's tech criticism via information theory
A look at the way sung liturgy shaped me. In lamenting its disappearance, I also consider what belief could mean.
A review of Leo Marx's thought to look at American views of technology, progress, and morality.
Looking at Tzvetan Todorov's thoughts on the fantastic and poetry to be less categorical about literature.
Thinking about how consumerism influences and interferes with political aspirations.
An examination of whether or how much of an understanding of cultural particularity is necessary to understand poetry or literature.