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Like is that evidence that alt-right agendas have secured a serious platform? Could be.
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@suspendedreason we need an update on this bk mafia, who's next on your chopping block?
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we all need some hate reading once in awhile.
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Recently I've been spending my days on the archives instead of Twitter... Plus what with lockdown and living in WI, I don't get the in-person contact... BK Cult Mafia may be behind me... It was part of a big project in my life that's now mostly behind me, still, I'll see what I can do
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Do you go about these projects in anticipation of their being subsumed by a later larger project?
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Where'd you get this? This is cool/wild/somethin
Oh I just collect little things, like scrapbooking, and try to write and respond to things around me, and pretty soon it adds up, there's a lot of loose ends, themes emerge, you can string em togethr. Not unlike zines e.g. Julia Fox's
Butt yeah, I suppose so
There's a reddit for Julia fox, was posted in there.
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Apparently there's a real literary squad that's formed the past decade or so—reading the acknowledgments section in Ben Lerner's Topeka School it thanks Annie Baker, Maggie Nelson, and Rachel Kushner for correspondence. That's pretty much the start and end of a list on best contemporary literature. I saw Nelson and Lerner appear at the 92nd St Y a year or two back, they seemed very intimate.
My guess is that these scenes are a little less geographically tethered than they used to be—I don't think Baker or Nelson have lived in New York recently, which means they probably built those friendships via... email?
My guess is that these scenes are a little less geographically tethered than they used to be—I don't think Baker or Nelson have lived in New York recently, which means they probably built those friendships via... email?
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These folks are about a decade older than the BCM—40s instead of 30s.
(Are there any hyped scenes of 20-somethings in literary or intellectual production? There are obviously a lot in music, where taking off in your 30s or 40s is rarer. Would imagine very few folks are writing things worth reading in their 20s, myself obviously an exception.)
(Are there any hyped scenes of 20-somethings in literary or intellectual production? There are obviously a lot in music, where taking off in your 30s or 40s is rarer. Would imagine very few folks are writing things worth reading in their 20s, myself obviously an exception.)
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One of the great sadnesses. Fantasies of recognition, legitimation—being rated by the folks you, yourself, rate. Perhaps this happens several times—friendships become syllogistic, and then shared. Or it happens before you, you enter into it, a homecoming, Suspended you're here, you belong. A strange feeling as others' third-person perspective synchronizes with the form of your first-person dreams, becomes your first-person reality.