Saturday, July 16, 2022

Hunger of Memory

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.

— Marcel Proust, born in 1872


Kate Bush praises Brisbane choir’s ‘utterly wonderful’ Running Up That Hill cover


There are a few things to come out of Stranger Things 4: 13 Emmy nominations, concern for Max, fantastic reaction memes and, above all, the internet's new, unshakeable love of Joseph Quinn, who played Eddie Munson.

In the six weeks between the season's volume one and two, Eddie became a fan favourite character - and that only became more true following the final two episodes of the series, in which Eddie... (spoiler, but if you haven't watched by now, what are you even doing?) dies a hero.

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FASTER, PLEASE:  Research shows investigational drug fosters nerve repair after injury.


Scientists think they know when a rogue star will ruin the Solar System.


Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez - GODINE


Resisting the easy way of following received dogmatic and conventional thought, Rodriguez has encountered kneejerk hostility for his provocative positions on issues such as affirmative action and bilingual education. But the extraordinary clarity of his iconoclastic writing—the surprising twists in his thinking, the view of public policy as it limits individual lives, and the story he tells of an American education—have made this book endure for four decades and counting


 

A Great Writer/Editor Partnership: Robert Caro And Robert Gottleib

When Caro was almost finished with “The Power Broker,” he got an agent, Lynn Nesbit, and she matched him up with Gottlieb. If there is any enmity between Caro and Gottlieb, it would seem to be a remnant of Caro’s pain at the amount of material Gottlieb cut from...



Harold Rosenberg Was A Towering Critic. How Did He Disappear?

One of Rosenberg’s most celebrated essays skewered those whom he dubbed “The Herd of Independent Minds”: scholars and critics who roundly dumped on an ascendant popular culture, claiming it inspired a sameness of thought. - Dissent

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Hailing Ishimura is a Sci-Fi Post-Rock Indie Band out of Southeastern Virginia / Divide and Dissolve, doom and drone / music by Aaronson / Lennon-McCartney / Sounds Maps, a music history of Peckham and Camberwell / new music podcast recommendations / illustration by Owen D.Pomery / the Minimalist Wave, reduced surfing style by Alain Bourdon / ‘Japanese City Launches Campaign to Preserve Forest that Inspired Hayao Miyazaki’s ‘My Neighbor Totoro’‘ / Emma Willard’s Maps of Time (via tmn) / A way from home: Bethlem artists on longing and belonging / The Automotive Absurdism of Pippa Garner / macro magic at Object Videos / AI stem-seeking magic at Split my Song / the lost sound of the Departure Board