David Pennington
@dtpennington
I write stuff. I’d like to write more stuff. Currently: reclaiming my brain.
David Pennington
dtpennington.com
“Your homework is to stop canceling each other, find out about punk, and get laidwhile you’re at it,” I told them. “Punk isn’t a hairstyle; it’s getting your friends together to make useful stories outside approved systems. And it’s still happening right now, all over the world.” MAGA has adopted an authoritarian style of punk that disdains what... See more
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What do I mean by that? Fiction, even when it’s fantasy or sci-fi, is about life and life is not mostly about words. Consider how many things you’ve thought or seen that are impossible for you to say in words, even something simple, like someone’s facial expression. Life, even on a quiet day, happens so densely and quickly around us andmost of it... See more
Mary Gaitskill • The deracination of literature
Genius is the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.
Adam Robbert • Attention is an Art Form
In the 1960s, psychologist Jerome Singer, the grandfather of daydreaming studies, identified three kinds of mind-wandering: the productive, creative “positive constructive daydreaming,” obsessive “guilty–dysphoric daydreaming,” and “poor attentional control.” Singer believed daydreaming was a positive adaptive behavior—a bold departure from the... See more
Christine Rosen • On The Death of Daydreaming
The Zeitgeist Is Changing. A Strange, Romantic Backlash to the Tech Era Looms
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/ross-barkantheguardian.com“The new romanticism has arrived…Backlash is bubbling against tech’s dominance in everyday life, particularly the godlike algorithms - their true calculus still proprietary - that rule all of digital existence.”
How I learned, early on, that we did not live in a home that welcomed art.
The point Klinenberg wanted to make was this: If there was no such thing as a library, and someone proposed it today, there's a 99.9% chance they and their “radical and crazy idea” would be laughed out of the room.
But, as we know, it’s not a crazy idea.
But, as we know, it’s not a crazy idea.
Andy Olin • Public libraries are the crazy, radical ideas that might save society | Kinder Institute for Urban Research
Libraria and
. As author Leah Price put it in her book How to Do Things with Nooks in Victorian Britain: “Once a sign of economic power, reading is now the province of those whose time lacks market value.”