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Comparatist trawling the jetsam of our civilizational collapse in the hopes of sharing a funny video or two. Liberal, metro ATL, love to talk literature, cinema, and sports (Vamos ATL!) in no particular order.
‘Why mine so close?’: the fight to protect the pristine Okefenokee swamp

An Alabama company wants to mine near the 440,000-acre Georgia swamp, but locals and scientists fear it could be irreparably harmed

The Guardian
Not Your Daddy’s Freud

A new generation of analysts and patients is embracing the father of psychoanalysis – in magazines and memes and many hours on the couch.

The New York Times
Mauritania’s ancient libraries could be lost to the expanding desert

This Mauritanian city boasts 13 libraries and some 6,000 manuscripts. Their teachings range from Islamic law to poetry to mathematics.

The Washington Post
"[F]or Kojève, the ideal of universal equality won through an endless battle for recognition was always an individualist notion that required domination when confronted by otherness. But for Hegel, human freedom could be won only through collectivity by embracing the opacity of otherness that we are constantly confronted with in ourselves, and in the world with others. It is an acceptance of that fact that self-mastery will always remain an illusion." https://aeon.co/essays/the-philosophical-legacy-of-alexandre-kojeve
The philosophical legacy of Alexandre Kojève | Aeon Essays

Alexandre Kojève was an immense influence on many French thinkers. What was so compelling about his lectures on Hegel?

Aeon
"Shorter and more elliptical than an essay, the Brazilian crônica is in fact a maddeningly elusive genre. The difficulty lies not so much in identifying the form’s attachment to the mundane (simple prose, wry personal anecdotes, an eye for the odd detail or fleeting character), but in the specific magic dust that transforms minor observations into prose that’s brimming with pathos." https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/04/06/the-unbearable-weight-of-levity-clarice-lispector/
The Unbearable Weight of Levity | Alejandro Chacoff

The cronista hunts big game with a pocketknife. A brief description of the old neighborhood soccer team suggests the unrelenting passage of time; a

The New York Review of Books
"'In Oe’s work…challenges from the past again and again evoke new answers,' noted the Swedish academy when awarding him the Nobel prize for literatur... Mr Oe’s answers have aged better than Mishima’s. Japan is at peace, and drawing closer to former victims such as South Korea. Children with awful medical problems are, by and large, treated with compassion. And the ultra-nationalists who drive around Tokyo bellowing martial slogans are considered faintly ridiculous." https://www.economist.com/culture/2023/03/13/the-legacy-of-oe-kenzaburo-novelist-nobelist-pacifist
The legacy of Oe Kenzaburo, novelist, Nobelist, pacifist

An anti-nationalist writer who aged better than his nationalist rival

The Economist
ChatGPT Gains Sentience

A philosophy webcomic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes

Friends, the wait is almost over. The third season of "Ted Lasso" drops on Weds, but until then, check out my review.

https://charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/review-ted-lasso-season-3#details

REVIEW: Ted Lasso, Season 3

Escucha ahora (18 min) | The art of making this place beautiful.

Charlotte's Web Thoughts
Kenzaburo Oe, Nobel Laureate and Critic of Postwar Japan, Dies at 88

With his powerful novels and essays, Mr. Oe tried to ensure that Japan learned the lessons of its 20th-century militarism.

The New York Times
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