The Interesting Times #280 (30.4.24)

Issue #280

• Technologies of illusion. >>The Shadow of the Object.

• Resist assuming. >>The Palm House.

• Don’t mind me in my coffin. >>The Palm House.

• It is necessary to speak from the uncomfortable place of subjectivity. >>Lithium.

• Levitt x Denis. >>Lithium.

• Why the novel matters. >>My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein.

• Morality as a zero sum game. >>The Quantity Theory of Morality.

• Anagnorisis. >>Recognising the Stranger.

• How should we look at the period formerly known as the Renaissance? >>Inventing the Renaissance.

• The cult of Solvej Balle. >>On the Calculation of Volume.

• A genius in any language. >>Books by Yoko Tawada.

• Enemy language. >>I Don’t Care.

• Something more subtle. >>Hell of Solitude.

• What do we have when we do not have a story? >>Hell of Solitude.

• No other choice. >>The Art of Asking Your Boss for a Raise.

• Only nine days. >>Death of an Ordinary Man.

• Both epic and intimate. >>Son of Nobody.

• Processed and packaged. >>Snack.

• An antidote to loneliness. >>Nation of Strangers.

• In twenty years most of the world could be racist dictatorships. >>Chain of Ideas.

• A renovation of Nazi ideas. >>Chain of Ideas.

• Hotel/hostel/hospital. >>Hotel Exile.

• Ten of the best. >>In the Dreamlife You Need a Rubber Soul.

• Prone to be productive.

• More like us.

• Death and translation.

• The impossible patient.

• The man behind the curtain.

• The libraries that weren’t supposed to exist.

• Our film recommendation this week: High and Low.

• How to write a statement condemning violence without saying anything.