LinkLog #5

Now

Screaming, throwing up at the approach of winter (good excited, not bad anxious)

Midterm season (October)

I haven't really slept in my bed in 3 weeks! Lots of house/pet sitting and traveling!

Media

Still reading The Night Sky

Read

Katabasis by RF Kuang

Interesting Times by Terry Pratchett

The Soft Machine by William S Burroughs

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars by Kai Cheng Thom

Watched

There Will Be Blood (2007)

One Battle After Another (2025)

Kpop Demon Hunters (2025)

Weapons (2025)

Parasite (2019)

The Pacifier (2005)

Practical Magic (1998)

American Psycho (2000)

Research

Finished Art and The Creative Unconscious

I've been putting off writing this blog because I thought had to go through and get more quotes / analysis. I'm skipping that in favor of actually posting something in October.

Can people please stop writing on substack ffs

Articles:

against the paved web (or, why we can't have nice things)

The Eclectic Reader | Published in Journal of Cultural Analytics

strategies of consumption and presentation are shaped in part by the affordances of the site itself

social media sites enforce particular cultural systems (ie goodreads algo prioritizing romance/scifi)

There is no definitive set of genre categories and no definitive way to determine which works belong in which category. Different people treat different features as decisive, or employ entirely different taxonomies, depending on their situations, desires, and governing horizons of expectation. As John Frow remarks, genre is “a dynamic process rather than a set of stable rules.”

also interesting as spotify inventing genres.

The Invention of Close Reading

For Guillory, the syllabus was a distraction from the true problem: an unequal access to higher education, which reproduces class hierarchies. Professors can teach Frantz Fanon and Fred Moten all they want, but it won’t make much difference if their students continue to come from the upper class and go on to become consultants and hedge fund managers, however fluent they might now be in decolonial theory and the undercommons.

Our misapprehension about the simplicity of reading offers an opportunity for literary scholars to make a case for ourselves: Because reading is actually difficult, we need experts to teach and specialize in it.

The Internet Has Borders

Tools:

The homebrewserver.club principles

Teaching tools I use right now

animal crossing letter generator sparking typeface epiphanies

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