reading:
emily apter, "weaponized thought: ethical militance and the group-subject" (kind of a portmanteau essay)
paolo virno, "childhood and critical thought" (just perfect)
francoise dastur, "phenomenology of the event: waiting and surprise"
diana coole, "politics without nostalgia" (review of wendy brown, politics out of history)
jameson's review of the parallax view in the lrb (coruscating density, as usual).
j. hoberman's review of v for vendetta
cat and girl
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music:
unwound / leaves turn inside you
the red krayola / hazel (with reservations re the pretentious parts)
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cinema:
the shipping news (surprisingly good for a stupid self-help movie)
divine intervention (droll, brilliant)
finding neverland
munich (dark but also funny, viz. the anarchist prank midway through; great screenplay)
mamma roma (lapidary, devastating)
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recent suckage: smilla's sense of snow, after she boards the boat to the arctic. before that happens it's really good.
so-so, but hard to dislike: the decemberists / castaways and cutouts
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