This might just be my best attempt yet at an Icelandic layer cake!
Wishing you all the best for the holidays and the oncoming year.
Happy holidays!
A very belated Happy Halloween and first snow from Providence!
Link
Going Postal A psychoanalytic reading of social media and the death drive
This book review is a mostly not wrong discussion of why I have moved my tweetlike posting off facebook to a privately hosted wordpress instance – to serve a “scripturient” addiction to writing and sharing without also feeding the rapacious machine, which transforms the desire for connection into a death wish. I don’t think he has it exactly right, but he’s definitely onto something, and more nuanced than most anti-social-media thinkpieces. Perhaps someday I will read the book!
Bagel shop bounty!
Link: BinaryThis
BinaryThis: the sound of the machine breaking
I’ve been a fan of this blog for years now (it’s always a treat to get an update in my email), and they’ve just posted this fantastic essay on consumption and capitalism under lockdown.