Notes from August 2024
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1. Ryan O'Connor "The Voids"
2. Thought is dialogic
3. "Typestract"
4. "Dirty concrete poetry"
5. Paul Radin's "Primitive Man as Philosopher"
6. Levi-Strauss' "The Savage Mind"
7. Seasonal dualism and double morphology societies
8. Levi-Strauss' epilogue to "Man the Hunter"
9. Franz Boas' studies on Kwakiutl peoples
10. Early Bill Orcutt solo albums
11. Birchville Cat Motel, "We Count These Prayers"
12. Bruce Russell's "Left Handed Blows"
13. Chicago Underground Quartet
14. Califone's "Quicksand/Cradlesnakes"
15. The carnivalesque
16. Defining ritual
17. "Youth abbeys"
18. Rituals as anti-structures
19. Indigenous regional organization
20. "Mesolithic" cultures and early cuisine
21. Fog, "Ether Teeth"
22. On ActBlue
23. Contemporary experimental folk
24. Ludovico Einaudi
25. Biden as anticorporate crusader
26. The origins of domination
27. Did agriculture create bureaucracy?
28. On surplus
29. Egalitarian immediate return economies
30. Martin MacInnes’ IN ASCENSION
31. Formal freedoms vs substantive freedoms
32. Marshall Sahlins's "Original Affluent Society"
33. Office workers vs medieval serfs
34. The work ethic of hunter-gatherer societies
35. Kwakiutl art
36. Personal reminder [redacted]
37. Personal reminder [redacted]
38. Dash Shaw's "Three New Stories" (via Hagai Palevsky) (@dialhforhagai.bsky.social)
39. The imaginary sovereign citizen
40. Publics and active uptake
41. Publics and the space of discourse
42. The interactive character of public discourse
43. Manuel DeLanda, "A New Philosophy of Society"
44. Sara Ahmed, "The Cultural Politics of Emotion"
45. Melinda Cooper's "Family Values"
46. Georges Canguilhem
47. Personal reminder [redacted]
48. Personal reminder [redacted]
49. Personal reminder [redacted]
50. Warner on circulation
51. "Paris: The Early Internet"
52. Public circulation, public action, and time
53. "Highly temporalized affects and interests"
54. 1711: The Spectator and the general public
55. "Talk value"
56. Vernacular performance and catchphrases
57. Marie Howe on writing without metaphor
58. Paul Krugman's "Self-Organizing Economy"
59. The "social imaginary"
60. Bakhtin on professional jargon
61. "Molly houses"
62. "World making"
63. Hiroshi Yoshimura
64. The feminist counterpublic
65. Verbs for public agency
66. Counterpublics vs social movements
67. Early Oneohtrix Point Never albums
68. Lia Kohl, Cole Pulice, and Lynn Avery
69. Tujiko Noriko, John Chantler, and Lawrence English
70. Early Akron/Family albums
71. Bell Gardens
72. Giuseppi Ielasi

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