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A.V. Marraccini

@saintsoftness

essayist + art historian ⎔ book WE THE PARASITES https://xitter.twitterapi.xyz/t.co/SC2u11Cg15 ⎔ Critic In Residence at IDM NYU ⎔ THESE NEW FRAGILITIES 2028 ⎔ Pliny 🐈 ⎔ she/her

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Joined December 2009
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Manuscript of These New Fragilities delivered to @7StoriesPress! Excited for you all to see it in early 2028– and also with @7storiespressuk!
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On Substack: A new Goethe translation, with self, other, Occident, and Orient at play along with Said’s and other reception. (Link in reply).
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There's a moment when the connoisseurial purpose of training the eye just hits you all at once, because just from the use of line alone, this sketch tells me who made it in an instant. And the frantic, besotted purposefulness of that line-- even in a sketch!
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(I mean it's also signed, so you know you don't have to use that second sense, but it speaks...)
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idk why this alcoholic loser is coming for my mans, but:
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.@SECWAR “The philosophical doctrines of the Frankfurt School – critical theory and the corrosive apparatus of ‘Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion’ – are fundamentally INCOMPATIBLE with military service and antithetical to the Constitution of the United States.”
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Need a y2k baby tee that says "Critical Theory" now, but it's kind of unsuited for winter. Frankfurt School tramp stamp?
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Thanks to everyone for the Volodine advice — starting here:
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She always reads her friends’ publications. This is why I have to get Bookforum and the TLS in paper!
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I love how evocative this is of so Many possible things, how it makes semi-abstraction feel like a lush possibility and not a hazy guess.
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Daniel Karrer .
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During the golden hour, she watches over her domain… and me, assiduously:
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When Plin goes and sits in the recycling area I call it her Freak Box. The evidence speaks for itself.
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Also for those of you who don’t know how academia works, 20 hours/term of teaching employment is not 20 hours of work. To prep ONE one and a half hour undergrad class can take me 5 hours. So essentially, you’re working 70 hours for 20 hours of pay if you’re a LUCKY grad student.
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Since I’ve been a prof for a little longer, my preps, especially for classes I’ve taught before, get easier, but grad students are often sole instructors for the first time— plus they do ALL lecture and exam grading for the tenured faculty. So no, it’s not a living wage per hour.
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Hey, if you cross the Harvard Grad (and soon contingent) picket, I will scorn you forever. I still remember how much it sucks to be a grad student without a union. No, it’s not heterodox or cool or interesting to scab or support scabs. Grad students are workers, too!
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These choices impact lives. When I was a grad student at Chicago, our health insurance was so bad that I essentially lost most of my thyroid function. I remember the day the Point ran Agnes Callard’s pro crossing that picket editorial. I refuse to write for them to this day.
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I finally have a breather: where do I start with Volodine, his heteronyms, and post-exoticism? Especially if I have a thing for literary spec fic...
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I really do like everybody's cats.
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Volcano nose close-up:
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I spend a lot of time wondering what the historical Pliny the Elder would think of his namesake. Granted, his first thoughts would probably be that it was odd to have a household pet that wasn’t a weasel or monkey, but after that…
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Late night hijinks from atop the bookshelf:
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She has two states of being: cuddle-flop and crazzzzy.
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Tonight, writing like this, but on innumerable worlds, not just Haeckel's or Schiele's.
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She looks fake, 3D rendered somehow. I asked her if she was real and she sort of chirped a little.
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A rare reissue with a GREAT cover — 50th anniversary Le Guin from Harper Perennial. The cover design is by Milan Bozoc, and the illustration is by Patricia Voehl. Again, I always love Le Guin and this is a very affordable edition.
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Cc @TheLincoln and @nosubstance relevant
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Night Plin, arms crossed, busy day complete:
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Look @jamesamarcus she did so much work! All those elections!
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This is a lovely framework for today's feeling. Gotta give Verso yet more of my money for this vol of Mike Davis... because at the end of the day, romantic humanism is (rightly!) hard to abandon even if you are a socialist with structuralist historical models like me.
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Mike Davis sums up my thoughts on this day
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