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anacoluthically // a miⁿd s t hiatus
anacoluthically // a miⁿd s t hiatus
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"The difficulty of translation from a language that doesn’t yet exist is considerable, but there is no need to exaggerate it. The past, after all, can be quite as obscure as the future."
– Ursula K. Le Guin, Always Coming Home
– Ursula K. Le Guin, Always Coming Home
January 5, 2026 at 8:19 PM
"The difficulty of translation from a language that doesn’t yet exist is considerable, but there is no need to exaggerate it. The past, after all, can be quite as obscure as the future."
– Ursula K. Le Guin, Always Coming Home
– Ursula K. Le Guin, Always Coming Home
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"If it's a matter of words, if it's a function of language, if it's concerned with what it's like or not like to be human, it will prove to be some sort of fiction."
- Wright Morris, Time Pieces
- Wright Morris, Time Pieces
December 29, 2025 at 3:54 AM
"If it's a matter of words, if it's a function of language, if it's concerned with what it's like or not like to be human, it will prove to be some sort of fiction."
- Wright Morris, Time Pieces
- Wright Morris, Time Pieces
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“Only fiction will accommodate the facts of life...Our choice, insofar as we have one, is not between fiction and fact, but between good and bad fiction..."
- Wright Morris, Time Pieces
- Wright Morris, Time Pieces
December 29, 2025 at 3:54 AM
“Only fiction will accommodate the facts of life...Our choice, insofar as we have one, is not between fiction and fact, but between good and bad fiction..."
- Wright Morris, Time Pieces
- Wright Morris, Time Pieces
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[…] images come between the world and human beings. They are supposed to be maps but they turn into screens: Instead of representing the world, they obscure it until human beings’ lives finally become a function of the images they create.
—Flusser
*snap!*
—Flusser
*snap!*
November 16, 2025 at 9:31 PM
[…] images come between the world and human beings. They are supposed to be maps but they turn into screens: Instead of representing the world, they obscure it until human beings’ lives finally become a function of the images they create.
—Flusser
*snap!*
—Flusser
*snap!*
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Charles Broskoski ( @broskoski.bsky.social ) on why business should be personal:
www.are.na/editorial/pe...
www.are.na/editorial/pe...
October 18, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Charles Broskoski ( @broskoski.bsky.social ) on why business should be personal:
www.are.na/editorial/pe...
www.are.na/editorial/pe...
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go read this immediately:
You can read "On the Marionette Theater" a short philosophical dialog in which Kleist radically challenges our commonsense notions of human volition, over at Paradise Almanac: www.paradise-almanac.net/p/on-the-mar...
On the Marionette Theater by Heinrich von Kleist
A translation from the Berliner Abendblätter
www.paradise-almanac.net
October 1, 2025 at 5:36 PM
go read this immediately:
“The fiction is already there. The writer's task is to invent the reality.”
— J.G. Ballard, Crash
— J.G. Ballard, Crash
August 18, 2025 at 12:48 PM
“The fiction is already there. The writer's task is to invent the reality.”
— J.G. Ballard, Crash
— J.G. Ballard, Crash
“Reality… What a Concept” (Robin Williams)
August 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
“Reality… What a Concept” (Robin Williams)
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Dominik Zechner reviews Peter Szendy's latest, which recognizes the internally divided role of the reader/listener from Plato to the audiobook. Zechner's review brings together Nietzsche and Sade, The Talking Heads and Taylor Swift to analyze this structure
olrsupplement.com/2025/08/11/p...
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Powers of Reading, by Peter Szendy - The OLR Supplement
Szendy recognizes multiple conflicting roles within any reader, examining the literary, technological, psychoanalytic, and sexual stakes of this decomposition
olrsupplement.com
August 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Dominik Zechner reviews Peter Szendy's latest, which recognizes the internally divided role of the reader/listener from Plato to the audiobook. Zechner's review brings together Nietzsche and Sade, The Talking Heads and Taylor Swift to analyze this structure
olrsupplement.com/2025/08/11/p...
olrsupplement.com/2025/08/11/p...
“But … we must bless the difficult authors of our day. Given a little more time, we shall no longer be able to understand them.” — Valéry, homage to Proust
August 5, 2025 at 8:01 PM
“But … we must bless the difficult authors of our day. Given a little more time, we shall no longer be able to understand them.” — Valéry, homage to Proust
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Gonna start calling hyperscale data centers "temples to the eldritch gods"
July 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Gonna start calling hyperscale data centers "temples to the eldritch gods"
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Constantly struck by how good academia is at teaching people to be critical of texts, but how poor at engaging with the beauty of the text. This suspicious mode of thinking, discussing art seems often to be a way of avoiding having that unsettling, profound encounter with the weird beauty of art.
July 15, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Constantly struck by how good academia is at teaching people to be critical of texts, but how poor at engaging with the beauty of the text. This suspicious mode of thinking, discussing art seems often to be a way of avoiding having that unsettling, profound encounter with the weird beauty of art.
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"Weak desires protect you from disappointment. But nothing keeps you safer than being a visible ruin."
- Fanny Howe, Indivisible
- Fanny Howe, Indivisible
July 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM
"Weak desires protect you from disappointment. But nothing keeps you safer than being a visible ruin."
- Fanny Howe, Indivisible
- Fanny Howe, Indivisible
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JEAN COCTEAU: Our inability to obtain a particular article does not prevent us from becoming aware of the empty space that it should fill, and by which we perceive its shape while being unable to identify it.
ME: My head itches.
ME: My head itches.
a white statue of medusa with a snake in her hair
Alt: a white statue of medusa with a snake in her hair
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June 19, 2025 at 3:51 AM
JEAN COCTEAU: Our inability to obtain a particular article does not prevent us from becoming aware of the empty space that it should fill, and by which we perceive its shape while being unable to identify it.
ME: My head itches.
ME: My head itches.
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Of course, as soon as a thing has happened it isn’t fantastic any longer, it’s inevitable. The inevitable is what you’re doing or have done. The fantastic is simply what you didn’t do.
June 8, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Of course, as soon as a thing has happened it isn’t fantastic any longer, it’s inevitable. The inevitable is what you’re doing or have done. The fantastic is simply what you didn’t do.
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BURNING HOUSE PRESS are excited to welcome (back) JOHN TREFRY @incastellated - as the 1st BHP guest editor of our current special-edition series!
JOHN’S theme for the month is
—INANIMISM
“Text is not active, it exists all at once, simultaneously.”
sendsendx
burninghousepress.com/2025/06/01/j...
JOHN’S theme for the month is
—INANIMISM
“Text is not active, it exists all at once, simultaneously.”
sendsendx
burninghousepress.com/2025/06/01/j...
JUNE 2025 Guest Editor Is JOHN TREFRY!!! THEME: INANIMISM
Burning House Press are excited to welcome JOHN TREFRY as the first BHP guest editor of our return series of special editions! As of today JOHN will take over editorship of Burning House …
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June 1, 2025 at 1:01 PM
BURNING HOUSE PRESS are excited to welcome (back) JOHN TREFRY @incastellated - as the 1st BHP guest editor of our current special-edition series!
JOHN’S theme for the month is
—INANIMISM
“Text is not active, it exists all at once, simultaneously.”
sendsendx
burninghousepress.com/2025/06/01/j...
JOHN’S theme for the month is
—INANIMISM
“Text is not active, it exists all at once, simultaneously.”
sendsendx
burninghousepress.com/2025/06/01/j...
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Robert Morris, Blind Time - Grief
May 23, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Robert Morris, Blind Time - Grief
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I want a night that lasts a month.
May 23, 2025 at 3:23 AM
I want a night that lasts a month.
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André Leroi-Gourhan on Technology: A Selection of Writings from the 1930s to the 1960s, ed. Nathan Schlanger, trans. Nils F. Schott - Hau Books, February 2025 (open access)
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André Leroi-Gourhan on Technology - HAU Books
A Selection of Writings from the 1930s to the 1960s, by André Leroi-Gourhan, edited by Nathan Schlanger, translated by Nils F. Schott. A selection of Leroi-Gourhan’s most important texts—many translat...
haubooks.org
April 1, 2025 at 11:58 AM
André Leroi-Gourhan on Technology: A Selection of Writings from the 1930s to the 1960s, ed. Nathan Schlanger, trans. Nils F. Schott - Hau Books, February 2025 (open access)
haubooks.org/leroi-gourha...
haubooks.org/leroi-gourha...
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“Entangled Verses is the 1st anthology to fully realize quantum theory as poetic condition. It does not merely reference the quantum—it is quantum: unstable, multiple, observer-shaped, and always in collapse. We do not write about entanglement; we write from within it.”
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Sedserio
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April 13, 2025 at 3:46 AM
“Entangled Verses is the 1st anthology to fully realize quantum theory as poetic condition. It does not merely reference the quantum—it is quantum: unstable, multiple, observer-shaped, and always in collapse. We do not write about entanglement; we write from within it.”
sedserio.com/entangled-ve...
sedserio.com/entangled-ve...
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>Burning House Press will be re-opening for intermittent guest-edited editions in 2025<
_Your Guest Editors Are Assembling_
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>Burning House Press will be re-opening for intermittent guest-edited editions in 2025<
_Your Guest Editors Are Assembling_
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BHP RETURNS 2025
Burning House Press will be re-opening for intermittent guest edited editions in 2025 – this will be a completely speculative operation intended to test waters and take temperatures. Like a l…
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>Burning House Press will be re-opening for intermittent guest-edited editions in 2025<
_Your Guest Editors Are Assembling_
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>Burning House Press will be re-opening for intermittent guest-edited editions in 2025<
_Your Guest Editors Are Assembling_
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“the geometry of a Disney”
(j.g. ballard)
(j.g. ballard)
March 12, 2025 at 6:02 AM
“the geometry of a Disney”
(j.g. ballard)
(j.g. ballard)
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from ‘My Culture Is Flowers’/Miggy Angel
Pbd 2023 @hesterglock.bsky.social Press
Cover art by @bydhiyanah.bsky.social
#poetry
Pbd 2023 @hesterglock.bsky.social Press
Cover art by @bydhiyanah.bsky.social
#poetry
February 28, 2025 at 10:12 PM
from ‘My Culture Is Flowers’/Miggy Angel
Pbd 2023 @hesterglock.bsky.social Press
Cover art by @bydhiyanah.bsky.social
#poetry
Pbd 2023 @hesterglock.bsky.social Press
Cover art by @bydhiyanah.bsky.social
#poetry
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Gerhard Marx
One thing, then another (III).
'distance is an open space for longing, an architecture for loss, a space of blurred certainty, an entry point to the sublime. The question, however, is to engage distance without it turning into nearness'
One thing, then another (III).
'distance is an open space for longing, an architecture for loss, a space of blurred certainty, an entry point to the sublime. The question, however, is to engage distance without it turning into nearness'
February 12, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Gerhard Marx
One thing, then another (III).
'distance is an open space for longing, an architecture for loss, a space of blurred certainty, an entry point to the sublime. The question, however, is to engage distance without it turning into nearness'
One thing, then another (III).
'distance is an open space for longing, an architecture for loss, a space of blurred certainty, an entry point to the sublime. The question, however, is to engage distance without it turning into nearness'