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dunya
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Neurotic creative professionals and members of the upper middle class have beaten the genre to a dead pulp.
But there’s life in it yet if you’re a straight woman with a different set of conflicts with a different kind of man.
We need more flavours of abjection.
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Mark Fisher’s greatest legacy is of course his interview with Burial in The Wire where Burial says this
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I think the internet has made people deeply uncomfortable with the idea of being ordinary, and I think being ordinary is one of the greatest privileges of being alive.
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Found folio of Edo period aerial maps of castle fortifications that look like Kandinsky paintings.
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Oggi, 2 novembre 2026, a cinquantuno anni esatti dal brutale assassinio avvenuto all'Idroscalo di Ostia nella notte tra l'1 e il 2 novembre 1975, la Procura di Roma ha ufficialmente riaperto le indagini sull'omicidio di Pier Paolo Pasolini.
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None of us dance today, like this, without Juan Atkins (1962-2026)
As a child, he developed a secret technology and sequence method to breathe emancipation into consumer-grade rhythmachines.
A grandmother’s love started all this; a gifted Korg MS-10 provided a Black teenager from the outskirts of Detroit means to produce a forever thing. An architecture for us all to dream up worlds where a future with technology is funky and not deathgiving. May your philosophy carry us into the next. REST IN PEACE. Now in sonic infinitum mode.
Keats, born on this day. A poet I’ve carried with me over the deepening years.
A sweltering day in Rome at his deathbed and graveside summers ago, and I wasn’t embarrassed to shed a tear or two.
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Every poet is a little bit like this, but no one is as much like this as birthday boy John Keats
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During WW2, London's underground transport system occasionally suffered blackouts. This is Henry Carr’s scene of Piccadilly Circus at night in 1942 - the downlight cast from a single lamp makes the picture particularly atmospheric.
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R.I.P. Ryu Murakami (1952–2026), enfant terrible of Japanese literature and author of "Coin Locker Babies" "Almost Transparent Babies", "In the Miso Soup" and "Audition". He was also known for directing TOKYO DECADENCE and for Hideaki Anno's adaptation of his novel LOVE & POP.
Reporting from the Zheng He-themed cafe where you can get an iced latte with your dose of Pax Sinica.
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people can tolerate a surprising amount of uncertainty when they feel like they're meeting each other honestly... what becomes difficult is when a person speaks plainly and the other responds in riddles, and both somehow pretend that the ambiguity is kinder than the truth