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Public Library 6.11

By TF | Published: November 6, 2009
Kabul: city Number One – Part 4. Adam Curtis’s series on Afghanistan continues. You should be following it if you aren’t already. Borges’s short story, ‘The Book of Sand’ as a hypertext and game. Beckett with Lacan. Slavoj Zizek writes on Beckett’s ‘utter self-emptying of subjectivity’. Dictionary of Sydney. Exciting project that will only continue [...]
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Public Library 5.8

By TF | Published: August 5, 2009
Additions to the library this time are strictly – strictly – literary. Nixon’s obituary by Hunter S. Thompson from 1994. There were so many lead-ins from the article that I wanted to use, most of which included the word ‘scum’. Here is the one I settled for: “You don’t even have to know who Richard [...]
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Public Library 29.6

By TF | Published: June 29, 2009
This is a pretty modest addition to the Public Library series. I’m not sure if that’s our doing or if it’s just been a slow few days in literature. What writers really do. What ‘they’ do is not that interesting - neither is the article, really. St. Petersburg Times’ report on Scientology. This is the second [...]
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