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𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔 - 𝑾𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑩𝒂𝒄𝒌: 𝑮𝒖𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒂 𝑻𝒆𝒙𝒕𝒔 & 𝑩𝑻𝑺

Is that blank page paralyzing your activism?

William James and David Foster Wallace interrogate the "sneer trap" of modern irony. And from Marvin Gaye’s protests to BTS’s solidarity, let's consider how "New Sincerity" and "Guerilla Texts" can unsettle the status quo and physically alter the world.

https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords_podcast/guerilla-texts-bts-gaye/

#podcast #books #bts #springday #marvingaye #davidfosterwallace #newsincerity

𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔 - 𝑾𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑩𝒂𝒄𝒌: 𝑮𝒖𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒂 𝑻𝒆𝒙𝒕𝒔 & 𝑩𝑻𝑺

Is that blank page paralyzing your activism?

William James and David Foster Wallace interrogate the "sneer trap" of modern irony. And from Marvin Gaye’s protests to BTS’s solidarity, let's consider how "New Sincerity" and "Guerilla Texts" can unsettle the status quo and physically alter the world.

https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords_podcast/guerilla-texts-bts-gaye/

#podcast #books #bts #springday #marvingaye #davidfosterwallace #newsincerity

𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔 - 𝑾𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑩𝒂𝒄𝒌: 𝑮𝒖𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒂 𝑻𝒆𝒙𝒕𝒔 & 𝑩𝑻𝑺

Is that blank page paralyzing your activism?

William James and David Foster Wallace interrogate the "sneer trap" of modern irony. And from Marvin Gaye’s protests to BTS’s solidarity, let's consider how "New Sincerity" and "Guerilla Texts" can unsettle the status quo and physically alter the world.

https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords_podcast/guerilla-texts-bts-gaye/

#podcast #books #bts #springday #marvingaye #davidfosterwallace #newsincerity

𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔 - 𝑾𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑩𝒂𝒄𝒌: 𝑮𝒖𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒂 𝑻𝒆𝒙𝒕𝒔 & 𝑩𝑻𝑺

Is that blank page paralyzing your activism?

William James and David Foster Wallace interrogate the "sneer trap" of modern irony. And from Marvin Gaye’s protests to BTS’s solidarity, let's consider how "New Sincerity" and "Guerilla Texts" can unsettle the status quo and physically alter the world.

https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords_podcast/guerilla-texts-bts-gaye/

#podcast #books #bts #springday #marvingaye #davidfosterwallace #newsincerity

𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑵𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒅𝒔 - 𝑾𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑩𝒂𝒄𝒌: 𝑮𝒖𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒂 𝑻𝒆𝒙𝒕𝒔 & 𝑩𝑻𝑺

Is that blank page paralyzing your activism?

William James and David Foster Wallace interrogate the "sneer trap" of modern irony. And from Marvin Gaye’s protests to BTS’s solidarity, let's consider how "New Sincerity" and "Guerilla Texts" can unsettle the status quo and physically alter the world.

https://waywordsstudio.com/podcasts/waywords_podcast/guerilla-texts-bts-gaye/

#podcast #books #bts #springday #marvingaye #davidfosterwallace #newsincerity

Nova Sinceridade: O projeto literário e filosófico de DFW — a tentativa de escrever ficção que se levasse a sério emocionalmente, depois de décadas em que a ironia se tinha tornado o modo dominante da escrita culta. paulopinto.place/wiki/literat... #david-foster-wallace #novasinceridade

a-nova-sinceridade - Ignoranti...

Pages 10–12 of the Reader contain the text’s most frequently quoted and most disturbing passage: an attempt to describe, from the inside, what The Bad Thing (depression) is. #literature #reading #books #davidfosterwallace paulopinto.xyz/notes/2026/0... Image credits: zero.eu

"It’s a massive and impossible assignment to turn around the cruise ship that is David Foster Wallace’s legacy. Amy could simply recede, as many family members of famous artists do after a tragic and untimely end." —Lindsey Adler for The Small Bow https://www.thesmallbow.com/p/consider-the-sister-2b94?src=longreads #dfw #davidfosterwallace #infinitejest #books #writers #family #grief #longreads

"It’s a massive and impossible assignment to turn around the cruise ship that is David Foster Wallace’s legacy. Amy could simply recede, as many family members of famous artists do after a tragic and untimely end." —Lindsey Adler for The Small Bow https://www.thesmallbow.com/p/consider-the-sister-2b94?src=longreads #dfw #davidfosterwallace #infinitejest #books #writers #family #grief #longreads

"It’s a massive and impossible assignment to turn around the cruise ship that is David Foster Wallace’s legacy. Amy could simply recede, as many family members of famous artists do after a tragic and untimely end." —Lindsey Adler for The Small Bow https://www.thesmallbow.com/p/consider-the-sister-2b94?src=longreads #dfw #davidfosterwallace #infinitejest #books #writers #family #grief #longreads

"It’s a massive and impossible assignment to turn around the cruise ship that is David Foster Wallace’s legacy. Amy could simply recede, as many family members of famous artists do after a tragic and untimely end." —Lindsey Adler for The Small Bow https://www.thesmallbow.com/p/consider-the-sister-2b94?src=longreads #dfw #davidfosterwallace #infinitejest #books #writers #family #grief #longreads

"It’s a massive and impossible assignment to turn around the cruise ship that is David Foster Wallace’s legacy. Amy could simply recede, as many family members of famous artists do after a tragic and untimely end." —Lindsey Adler for The Small Bow https://www.thesmallbow.com/p/consider-the-sister-2b94?src=longreads #dfw #davidfosterwallace #infinitejest #books #writers #family #grief #longreads

Reminder to watch this #DavidFosterWallace video: https://youtu.be/8juL7cdGj40

Reminder to watch this #DavidFosterWallace video: https://youtu.be/8juL7cdGj40

Reminder to watch this #DavidFosterWallace video: https://youtu.be/8juL7cdGj40

Reminder to watch this #DavidFosterWallace video: https://youtu.be/8juL7cdGj40

Reminder to watch this #DavidFosterWallace video: https://youtu.be/8juL7cdGj40

The Addiction as a Civilizational Metaphor in Infinite Jest paulopinto.xyz/wiki/literat... #david-foster-wallace #infinite-jest #literature

#InfiniteJest: A Postmodern Saga of Damnation and Salvation (1996) #DavidFosterWallace

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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1996/02/the-alchemists-retort/376533/

#InfiniteJest: A Postmodern Saga of Damnation and Salvation (1996) #DavidFosterWallace

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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1996/02/the-alchemists-retort/376533/

#InfiniteJest: A Postmodern Saga of Damnation and Salvation (1996) #DavidFosterWallace

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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1996/02/the-alchemists-retort/376533/

“What writers have is a license and also the freedom to sit—to sit, clench their fists, and make themselves be excruciatingly aware of the stuff that we’re mostly aware of only on a certain level. And if the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is. Is to wake the reader up to stuff that the reader’s been aware of all the time.”

#DavidFosterWallace

“What writers have is a license and also the freedom to sit—to sit, clench their fists, and make themselves be excruciatingly aware of the stuff that we’re mostly aware of only on a certain level. And if the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is. Is to wake the reader up to stuff that the reader’s been aware of all the time.”

#DavidFosterWallace

“What writers have is a license and also the freedom to sit—to sit, clench their fists, and make themselves be excruciatingly aware of the stuff that we’re mostly aware of only on a certain level. And if the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is. Is to wake the reader up to stuff that the reader’s been aware of all the time.”

#DavidFosterWallace

Voting

Do I vote in political elections? No, I don’t vote in political elections. Are you serious? Voting? I traditionally spend election day – and evening – at home alternating between eating pizza and summer sausage with peanut butter and American cheese sandwiches and dunking Oreo cookies in chocolate milk until the sun sets when I switch to a 2 liter bottle of Coke and peanut M&Ms. And instead of watching the news and getting bored watching everyone talking about everything, I’m happy flipping between reruns of Housewives of Wherever and the Maury Povich Show. The only voting I do is picking who is and who is not the father. And yeah, I know what you’re thinking and it doesn’t have anything to do with the summer sausage and peanut butter with American cheese sandwich and you’re right: I do then spend the next 2-4 years bitching about the elections and all the things that are wrong with the country, and how it can be, they can be, you can be better. But so what? There’s no law says we have to vote and whose business is my complaining but my own? And really, it’s not like my vote would make a difference anyway, ‘ya know, and if people can’t get it right then I have the God-given right to complain about it.

“Not voting is not a protest. It is a surrender.” – Keith Ellison, Attorney General of Minnesota

Yes, I vote. I vote in every political election and this is a numbskull question. And I’m guessing I may have disparaged and belittled the character of people who don’t vote and for that I’m… thinking about it.

“By all means stay home if you want, but don’t bullshit yourself that you’re not voting. In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard’s vote.” – David Foster Wallace

The one bad thing about voting for me is the feeling of having one chance to get it right or else. And not getting the candidates right, but the ballot right. We have paper ballots here and what if my hand shakes and I color outside the little oval a little bit? Or what if I don’t follow the line of text correctly and I color in the wrong hole? I know mistakes happen and the poll workers are there to help with that kind of thing, but then something like that happens and now I get on a list like, Goofy Voter Guy or something, and when I go back to vote in the next election and I give them my name, the room gets kind of quiet and all the poll workers glance over in my direction. Not obviously or anything like that, because poll workers are trained to be discrete, but it doesn’t take much on my part to see all the poll workers busy at their jobs and talking to other, more responsible, voters with steady hands and the ability to color in a circle and follow a line correctly, shifting their eyes to me. And then when I step up to that little table thing to vote and my back is to the room, there’ll be the inevitable hushed whispers of the poll workers and it’ll be impossible to avoid the words.

“Hey, that’s the guy.”
“Really? That’s him?”
“Yup.”
“Goofy Voter Guy?”
“Mmm hmm.”
“He’s better looking than I thought.”
“Don’t let that fool you. It’s what’s upstairs that counts.”
“You mean like—”
“Mmm hmm, the light’s on, but no one’s home.”
“Poor guy. How hard is it to color in a little circle, anyway?”
“I know, right?”
“Shh, he’s looking over here. Look busy.”

Yeah, all that. Or worse.

And worse.

And then by the time I’m finally done voting I’m so on edge that my hands shake when I reach out to accept the “I VOTED” sticker the poll worker near the door hands me and I drop in on the floor. Now I have to bend over and pray that I don’t rip my pants and as I bend to pick up the sticker it’s easy to hear the muffled laughs and the words.

“Goofy Voter Guy? Goofy Butterfingers Guy, is more like it!”
“I know, right?”
“At least he didn’t rip his pants when he bent over.”
“That would have been something!”

We have problems on the north, south, east and west. New York City, Saint Louis, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago. Everybody has problems and personally, I don’t care” – Alice Cooper, Elected

The title of the song here, don’t do it. Don’t vote for me. I’m not running for anything, it’s just a good Chicago song. And in case you’re wondering what’s real and what’s not in this upside down world, I have never had a summer sausage with peanut butter and American cheese sandwich.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skfbo8oQuBE&list=RDskfbo8oQuBE&start_radio=1

This 👏 book 👏 is 👏 trashed 👏.

Front and back covers completely severed; stains from god know how many muddy university coffees; and lots of chicken-scratch hand writing, a good portion of which I can't even decipher anymore. Also many rogue question marks 😅.

I did think about giving this to the local library, but it's likely a biohazard at this point. Curious if anyone else has a more egregiously blown out copy than mine! #infinitejest #davidfosterwallace #literature #reading #entertainment

This 👏 book 👏 is 👏 trashed 👏.

Front and back covers completely severed; stains from god know how many muddy university coffees; and lots of chicken-scratch hand writing, a good portion of which I can't even decipher anymore. Also many rogue question marks 😅.

I did think about giving this to the local library, but it's likely a biohazard at this point. Curious if anyone else has a more egregiously blown out copy than mine! #infinitejest #davidfosterwallace #literature #reading #entertainment

This 👏 book 👏 is 👏 trashed 👏.

Front and back covers completely severed; stains from god know how many muddy university coffees; and lots of chicken-scratch hand writing, a good portion of which I can't even decipher anymore. Also many rogue question marks 😅.

I did think about giving this to the local library, but it's likely a biohazard at this point. Curious if anyone else has a more egregiously blown out copy than mine! #infinitejest #davidfosterwallace #literature #reading #entertainment

This 👏 book 👏 is 👏 trashed 👏.

Front and back covers completely severed; stains from god know how many muddy university coffees; and lots of chicken-scratch hand writing, a good portion of which I can't even decipher anymore. Also many rogue question marks 😅.

I did think about giving this to the local library, but it's likely a biohazard at this point. Curious if anyone else has a more egregiously blown out copy than mine! #infinitejest #davidfosterwallace #literature #reading #entertainment

This 👏 book 👏 is 👏 trashed 👏.

Front and back covers completely severed; stains from god know how many muddy university coffees; and lots of chicken-scratch hand writing, a good portion of which I can't even decipher anymore. Also many rogue question marks 😅.

I did think about giving this to the local library, but it's likely a biohazard at this point. Curious if anyone else has a more egregiously blown out copy than mine! #infinitejest #davidfosterwallace #literature #reading #entertainment

Een onuitputtende lijst van dingen die me opvielen tussen pagina 94 en 250.

Een onuitputtende lijst van dingen die me opvielen tussen pagina 94 en 250.

Een onuitputtende lijst van dingen die me opvielen tussen pagina 94 en 250.

Wrote a passion piece about 2 of my favourite books.

Gödel, Escher, Bach, Wallace: the "o's, d's and p's" in Infinite Jest

"the [typographic encoding] becomes the smoking gun in the case against Avril Incandenza when you appreciate Wallace's intellectual debt to Douglas Hofstadter and Gödel, Escher, Bach – a debt the essay documents in detail below."

https://www.chiply.dev/post-reperspectivizing-orin

#infinitejest #davidfosterwallace #typography #geb #literature

Wrote a passion piece about 2 of my favourite books.

Gödel, Escher, Bach, Wallace: the "o's, d's and p's" in Infinite Jest

"the [typographic encoding] becomes the smoking gun in the case against Avril Incandenza when you appreciate Wallace's intellectual debt to Douglas Hofstadter and Gödel, Escher, Bach – a debt the essay documents in detail below."

https://www.chiply.dev/post-reperspectivizing-orin

#infinitejest #davidfosterwallace #typography #geb #literature

Wrote a passion piece about 2 of my favourite books.

Gödel, Escher, Bach, Wallace: the "o's, d's and p's" in Infinite Jest

"the [typographic encoding] becomes the smoking gun in the case against Avril Incandenza when you appreciate Wallace's intellectual debt to Douglas Hofstadter and Gödel, Escher, Bach – a debt the essay documents in detail below."

https://www.chiply.dev/post-reperspectivizing-orin

#infinitejest #davidfosterwallace #typography #geb #literature

Wrote a passion piece about 2 of my favourite books.

Gödel, Escher, Bach, Wallace: the "o's, d's and p's" in Infinite Jest

"the [typographic encoding] becomes the smoking gun in the case against Avril Incandenza when you appreciate Wallace's intellectual debt to Douglas Hofstadter and Gödel, Escher, Bach – a debt the essay documents in detail below."

https://www.chiply.dev/post-reperspectivizing-orin

#infinitejest #davidfosterwallace #typography #geb #literature

Wrote a passion piece about 2 of my favourite books.

Gödel, Escher, Bach, Wallace: the "o's, d's and p's" in Infinite Jest

"the [typographic encoding] becomes the smoking gun in the case against Avril Incandenza when you appreciate Wallace's intellectual debt to Douglas Hofstadter and Gödel, Escher, Bach – a debt the essay documents in detail below."

https://www.chiply.dev/post-reperspectivizing-orin

#infinitejest #davidfosterwallace #typography #geb #literature

Considerar a la langosta: reflexiones éticas sobre el sufrimiento animal al hervirlas vivas

📰 Título original: Hablemos de langostas

🤖 IA: No es clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: No es clickbait ✅

Ver resumen IA completo: https://killbait.com/es/considerar-a-la-langosta-reflexiones-eticas-sobre-el-sufrimiento-animal-al-hervirlas-vivas/?redirpost=802b12d8-184a-4fb6-9c20-68ecc191d836

#filosofía #éticaanimal #sufrimientolangosta #davidfosterwallace

Considerar a la langosta: reflexiones éticas sobre el sufrimiento animal al hervirlas vivas

📰 Título original: Hablemos de langostas

🤖 IA: No es clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: No es clickbait ✅

Ver resumen IA completo: https://killbait.com/es/considerar-a-la-langosta-reflexiones-eticas-sobre-el-sufrimiento-animal-al-hervirlas-vivas/?redirpost=802b12d8-184a-4fb6-9c20-68ecc191d836

#filosofía #éticaanimal #sufrimientolangosta #davidfosterwallace

I never could finish Infinite Jest, but this is gold. David Foster Wallace, compellingly stating the obvious with dry poesy.

https://youtu.be/DCbGM4mqEVw?si=HFDVm9FNZ7de3bc9

This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

#davidfosterwallace #compassion #mindfulness #speech

I never could finish Infinite Jest, but this is gold. David Foster Wallace, compellingly stating the obvious with dry poesy.

https://youtu.be/DCbGM4mqEVw?si=HFDVm9FNZ7de3bc9

This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

#davidfosterwallace #compassion #mindfulness #speech

I never could finish Infinite Jest, but this is gold. David Foster Wallace, compellingly stating the obvious with dry poesy.

https://youtu.be/DCbGM4mqEVw?si=HFDVm9FNZ7de3bc9

This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

#davidfosterwallace #compassion #mindfulness #speech

I never could finish Infinite Jest, but this is gold. David Foster Wallace, compellingly stating the obvious with dry poesy.

https://youtu.be/DCbGM4mqEVw?si=HFDVm9FNZ7de3bc9

This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

#davidfosterwallace #compassion #mindfulness #speech

I never could finish Infinite Jest, but this is gold. David Foster Wallace, compellingly stating the obvious with dry poesy.

https://youtu.be/DCbGM4mqEVw?si=HFDVm9FNZ7de3bc9

This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life

#davidfosterwallace #compassion #mindfulness #speech

The Turbulent Genius of #DavidFosterWallace

https://www.newsweek.com/2015/01/16/turbulent-genius-david-foster-wallace-297688.html

The Turbulent Genius of #DavidFosterWallace

https://www.newsweek.com/2015/01/16/turbulent-genius-david-foster-wallace-297688.html

The Turbulent Genius of #DavidFosterWallace

https://www.newsweek.com/2015/01/16/turbulent-genius-david-foster-wallace-297688.html