Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Exit, Voice and Loyalty,
Ethan Zuckerman • Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them
Identity politics,
Jonathan Crary • Scorched Earth: Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-Capitalist World
As the philosopher Wendy Brown puts it, from the perspective of the modern imperial hub, “we have culture while they are a culture.”
Raj Patel • Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice
In fact, he was a romantic in the strict sense of the term, one who believed that music should be composed and played through the “addition of strangeness to beauty.”
John F. Szwed • Space Is the Place: The Lives and Times of Sun Ra
In a chapter called “Egotism in Work and Art” he launches an extraordinary, racially tinged attack on jazz, “the clearest of all signs of our age’s deep-seated predilection for barbarism.”
Richard M. Weaver • Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition
The freedom of disregard.
Nell Irvin Painter • Old In Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over
Just what was most protected is cruelly requisitioned and exposed.
Theodor W. Adorno • Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life (Radical Thinkers)
legacy cognitive blindness
Richard Powers • The Overstory: Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Hayden White expresses what I believe is a sympathetic critique of Ricoeur’s ideas.