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john underkoffler @john_under

how... how did the entire gamelan get wedged in there like that? what? nonsense. strom thurmond doesn't even have opposable thumbs.

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la medusa is a magnificent, monumental work. tempting to say that @VanessaPlace2 creates a gorgeous one-time (non-barthy) literature of exhaustion by juicing impossible volumes from the words we're all allotted: so nothing's left? not so: she shows language's permanent abundance.
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"how little we have done to deserve these great gifts", you probably think. not so! what's happening here is actually milty friedman and freddy hayek's machinery precision-maximizing shareholder value while the invisible hand rummages furiously in culture's socks & undies drawer.
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the klober muller character in gonçalo m tavares's gobsmackwork joseph walser's machine: one of recent lit's great comic summonings. but what he offers re: personal science (rhett mcneil's überfine rendering, pp.120-4) is astonishing. @Dalkey_Archive please: tavares is essential!
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tilty hope-bolus that even as th' u.s. works diligently to bite its own head into bloody flaps there should exist a publishing florescence to include just e.g. @press_erratum, calamari archive, isolarii, @DorothyProject, and @Dalkey_Archive. for full marvelosity, simulread these.
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2025's optico-typographico-cognito-narrative incursion through the iris onto the retina shambling up the string pressing damply into the lobes near broca's and wernicke's bivouacs and along the hippocampal condo to remain buzzing in the precuneus's splendidly recirculative vicus.
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gratitude for induced firsts: @IneluctableQuak --> ocampo, davila, rivera garza; meades --> (dba) derek raymond. knowably overdue firsts: lobo antunes, @gariellelutz, cooper, del paso, jahnn, belben. erumpent spectacularity: butler, amdahl, @saintsoftness, singer, pawson, turner.
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a pachinko bounce found jack cox (dodge rose up next in 2026) but revealed in turn jeremy m. davies, whose carom connection to cardenas is raw delight and whose 'fancy' is a lovely runaway megaton, metastructure metabolized to muscle & meaning; a scalded-thrilling ontologic yowl.
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our permanent orgy of incontinent omnipraise has flattened all superlative to semantic trompe l'oeil, so there's no way left to speak about rosalind belben's "the limit". out the phoneto-syntactic axis a stride past gass. an ecstasy of devastation, words living & of darkest soil.
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cărtărescu's solenoid is connected on topics of mind and physiology by transatlantic & -millennial cables to del paso's palinuro of mexico; the latter meanwhile jostles in jolly contention for reference materials with the work of p. greenaway, esp. the tulse luper suitcase films.
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can someone (@TheUntranslated?) with the original of solenoid tell us what the romanian words are that sean cotter has transmuted into the dirigibly gasstastic "oboes, cobras, and cargo boats" amidst the tattoo fantasy & a bit over halfway down p.165 in the deep vellum edition?
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of three scoreish 2024 reads, finest lobe-grope and sulcus-pummel from m cisco: animal money; m j cardenas: american abductions; k o muslim: the drone outside all usly available; j craig: wall; r harsch: five, but esp. voices after evelyn; r ducornet: those few unread (cont'd)
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d vardeman: april is the cruelest month; c schutt: a day, a night, another day, summer; i bachmann: malina; j rulfo: pedro páramo; g murnane: landscape with landscape; a schmidt: b/moondocks; e baltasar: mammoth; m j harrison: the centauri device; r loewinsohn: magnetic fields...
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.. with, as 2024's representedest presses, @CoronaSamizdat, @FumdEstampa, @andothertweets, @Dalkey_Archive primal-always, @NewDirections, @DeepVellum, @WhiteRabbitBks: paragons // ref: @HarschRick424, @IneluctableQuak, @kristinemuslim, @MichaelTCisco, @mjohnharrison.bsky.social
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from the great dennis lee's 'civil elegies' aloud into near space: "yet still they take the world full force on their nerve ends, leaving the / bloody impress of their bodies face forward in time and i believe / they will not go under until they have taken the measure of empire."
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serial watch of alk's/green's "the murder of fred hampton" / "the weather underground" resonant & timely; in the latter, several weathermen (as dohrn too refers to herself) express a goading, existential anguish-panic-paralysis in the face of gleeful us-led genocide. then as now.
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alasdair gray's "everything leading to the first english" in its rvw-cntmpr-fiction vol.xv/no.2 guise is a tsunami of writing, scholarship, generosity, and clarion morality such as might be used to found a nation. @chadwpost / @Thornwillow, what chance of reissuing as a pamphlet?
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a project, already in progress & herewith announced, to remake computation by building a wholly new operating system called ANIMIST, embodying by axiom & fiat its & our spatial, distributed, collaborative, & temporal reality. also comic. demos, ideas, details impendy & recurring.
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on this international beltane / workers' day: ANIMIST's built from the hominids & ui down, via a liquid nervous system protocol. via lebbeus woods: "i cannot know your name. nor can you know mine. tomorrow, we begin together the construction of a city." animist-os.org

Animist

is a new operating system: spatial, distributed, collaborative, and temporal.

animist-os.org
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