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The Sydney Review of Books unleashes a deliriously pointless parade of self-important #buzzwords and endless lists, all in an attempt to transform navel-gazing literary criticism into an art form 🎨📚. Spoiler alert: it doesn't work. 😆
https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essays/the-aesthetes-progress #literarycriticism #artfail #navelgazing #SydneyReviewofBooks #critique #HackerNews #ngated -
Jennifer Lindsay waxes poetic about the "value of differences" in #translation, as if noticing them suddenly makes her a United Nations diplomat 🤔📚. Meanwhile, the Sydney Review of Books pads out the article with self-congratulatory lists and irrelevant tangents because, apparently, brevity is a lost #art 🙄✍️.
https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essays/the-value-of-differences #valueofdifferences #SydneyReviewofBooks #brevitylost #oftranslation #literature #HackerNews #ngated -
New from me on the #SydneyReviewOfBooks: UNNATURAL BEING, an essay on #QueerEcology, #ozlit, the colonial uncanny, and loving “nature” in the Anthropocene: