Para ver e ouvir: Marty Supreme, nos cinemas e o hit do Carnaval, Jetski, de Pedro Sampaio

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My meditation on cool. It'd be -- well, you know -- if you read it.

"In the midst of socially mediating, I came across the observation, from some generational instance younger than my own, that back in the early 90s people of his kind thought the rock band Steely Dan was uncool.

"I steadied myself. I read on."

#writing #Baudelaire #WalterBenjamin #medieval knights #cultue #cool

https://ajayadler.substack.com/p/cool-man?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2

Cool, Man

In the midst of socially mediating, I came across the observation, from some generational instance younger than my own, that back in the early 90s people of his kind thought the rock band Steely Dan was uncool. I steadied myself. I read on. Something to do, I gathered, with creative mainstays Walter Becker and Donald Fagin employing a rotating line up of session musicians to record with from album to album rather than a fixed crew of fellow band members. Steely Dan wasn’t, that is to say, a

Homo Vitruvius by A. Jay Adler

I want to believe things are better than we perceive, I really do. I just wish we didn’t have to hear about it from free market cheerleaders like David Brooks who frame a flowering of creativity and innovation exclusively in terms of new business & capital investment. https://apple.news/AhgFUxuzlT9SDjUvTS6zirQ

This myopia is at the heart of our cultural dysfunction. We are given license to ignore everything about human enterprise that is not pinned to movement of currency.

#capital #socialism #cultue #creativity

Despite Everything You Think You Know, America Is on the Right Track — The Atlantic

Yes, America is a wounded giant—but it always has been, and the case for optimism is surprisingly strong.

La romancière à succès Françoise Bourdin est morte à l’âge de 70 ans

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