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Brice Ezell

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Writer, critic (@PopMatters), teacher. ATL. PhD in English, University of Texas. Modern drama, theatre, and philosophy. Writing a book on Tom Stoppard. Also a denizen of debate-land. https://boxd.it/1rEO5

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Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · Jan 14

Years ago, I started noticing that post-2016 America could best be divided into days that felt like SOUTHLAND TALES and days that felt like TRUE DETECTIVE season two. I put this theory of mine into words for the good folks at @mid-theory.bsky.social: mid-theory.com/2025/01/14/t...

The Southland-Vinci Theorem

Using Los Angeles as a synecdoche for the nation, these stories ambitiously try to chart the scale of America’s degradation, only to find that it’s easy to become artistically inchoate in the proce…

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Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing so many "Great Books" professors either be silent or tacitly approving of the Trump admin really adds another prophecy point to Bolano's column. The passage where Father Urrutia immerses himself in the classics while the Pinochet coup happens in the background is our present.

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 2d

😂😂😂😂

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 2d

tbf, “Wi$h Li$t” and “Cancelled” do sound like soft lib-triggers

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Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

we simply do not have a union anymore if the president is using troops from one state to invade others entirely on the basis of political disagreements

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 2d

UPDATE: Hegseth today called up 400 members of the Texas National Guard, with Gov. Abbott's apparent permission, to be deployed "where needed, including in the cities of Portland and Chicago." www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 2d

I get that the Bills are obviously a better team than the Pats, but teams in the Pats' situation do this all the time in the NFL against better teams, when they play well and hold their ground, only to in the 4th be like, "Ok that was fun, now you can win!"

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 2d

It was hilarious when the score went 20-17 to see the Pats as having a 69 percent win probability. The bailout fest that followed belied that line.

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 3d

I do reject, though, that TLOAS is some kind of MAGA pivot. Taylor doesn’t strike me as a chud, but rather someone who’s soft left on some social issues but is “fiscally conservative” in all other respects. Which, to be clear, is still conservative. But I thought we already knew this.

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 3d

THE LIFE OF A SHOWGIRL post facto disproves the already hilarious idea that someone on Twitter one suggested; that Taylor is our contemporary Joni Mitchell

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 5d

The new Taylor album’s best song, from what I’ve heard so far, sounds like something Bruno Mars would have written in 2016, and one song straight up cops the chord progression to “Say It Ain’t So.” Is this your queen, etc

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 5d

(It did take a month to read because it is a Whole Damn Book, but, still...)

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 5d

It's a lot of things about modern living, which will stop even someone who loves reading, like myself, from reading as much as they could. Minimizing distraction helps. I got rid of my gaming console this summer and then immediately read Bolano's 2666.

Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 6d

Why aren't students reading whole books?
a) phones
b) covid
c) common core
d) other

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Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 6d

I am excited to see the film adaptation of Denis Johnson's TRAIN DREAMS but, not gonna lie, having a hard time imagining how the film will adapt the final paragraph, my favorite in all of fiction.

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 6d

THE MORNING SHOW went from being a more normie version of THE NEWSROOM to something fully unhinged and nonsensical, still here for it I fear

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 6d

It is funny how some people will say things like “no one deserved to win that game” but then also get mad ties exist

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 7d

And, of course, two of these guys were linked with Spurs. What we wouldn’t give to have Paz in the mix right now.

The Transfer Flow @thetransferflow.bsky.social · 7d

It's some guys you'd expect (Paz, Olise), and others you wouldn't (a former Arsenal flop?)

www.thetransferflow.com/p/5-very-fun...

5 very fun attackers off to hot starts this season

Including a couple we can't believe didn't get sold during the transfer window.

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Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 7d

Reported. You are a submental piece of trash if you exploit the dead like this.

Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 7d

Please report this fucking AI slop. Goddamnit. www.amazon.com/KALEB-HORTON...

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Ben "Ben Pack" Pack @packbenpack.bsky.social · 7d

Circle K has what can only be described as “Saints Row Food”

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Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 7d

Watching the Democrats once again talk about needing to sell out core social values, I’m reminded of this amazing moment from the E1 Joe Biden saga. “you’ve performed liminal spaces in bodies, jack”

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 8d

all to say: I too would reject an allegiance to “analytic philosophy” as a category of devotion, but tbh I’m not sure much any more how widely that’s held except as a matter of style

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 8d

coincidentally, this piece published in Jacobin speaks to how blanketed critiques of analytic philosophy’s (putative) politics (or lack thereof) gloss over a much more complex political reality jacobin.com/2025/09/anal...

Is Analytic Philosophy a Class Ideology?

Christoph Schuringa insists that analytic philosophy serves as an ideological fig leaf for liberal capitalism. But his polemic distorts the discipline’s history and fails to draw persuasive links betw...

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Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 8d

tbh, after my diss research I came to see analytic phil as less a thing to defend and more as a particular historical moment, whose methods we’ve inherited to some degree but but not in some structured school to which there are still a large number of adherents

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 8d

he was amazing. a mark of this world’s injustice that he died without a permanent column somewhere

Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 8d

Amazing work here by @alexnpress.bsky.social eulogizing Kaleb Horton and gathering his writing in one easy to locate place. If any indie publishers want to do an edition of his work, I’d volunteer time to see it done. thealexpress.substack.com/p/kaleb-hort...

Kaleb Horton

Writing can be beautiful.

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Brice Ezell @briceezell.bsky.social · 8d

I have always felt that critics go far too gaga over PT Anderson, and that lots of them can’t accept good faith criticism, but, MAN, hearing how bad some of the ONE BATTLE criticism is, now I’m feeling inclined to dig in more on the movie!

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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 9d

a few small beers

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