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in thread "Nature Onto Man":

I never thought of Istanbul as a colorful place. It's a low, gray city, with some handsome buildings left over from a long time ago. I would say the same for Kyoto, where the oldest buildings you'll see beyond the central quarters are postwar shacks made o... 3d ago received

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Assigned Reading: Bloom, Harold. The Western Canon. 1994. Chapter 1: “An Elegy for the Canon,” pp. 15–41.
Who am I to assign a reading? Who am I to assume that you haven’t already read, absorbed or rejected, and debated to death Harold Bloom on the canon? It's not compulsory. I’m hopeful. The chapter helped me to think. It might help others. It's a contrib... (archive.org) posted 3d ago with no replies received

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in thread "What goes on the reading list for the Students?":

I’m skeptical of the “obvious” list. Unless "online discussion groups" counts, these lists don't represent a distinct tradition. I'm tired of seeing scraps of disparate canons taped up together. It seems like these recommendations, separated from any... 5d ago received

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in thread "It's The Asian Century":

I’ll the peripheral argument about the nature of the Chinese first.... 2w ago received

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This sort of linguistic deconstruction is going to push you further from a clear understanding, especially for this sort of recent political terminology, made up of early modern neologisms. It reads so peculiarly in English—"socialism with Chinese charac... 2w ago received

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I'm skeptical that it's encoded at such a deep syntactic level. "资本主义" is "capitalism"—and by that I mean that you couldn't get a sense of the connotations or flavor of the former by analyzing the meaning of the characters, or the linguistic vibr... 1w ago received

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I will insist that some of these early modern Sinitic calques of foreign political and economic terms don't really work with this idea. The Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans all use 资本主义/資本主義—the same characters read differently: ziben zhuyi... 1w ago received

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I agree on "rice" and "beauty."... 6d ago received

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in thread "Living as real Sims in small "9:16 windowed" apartments":

It’s always a thrill to watch someone, usually without them planning on it, often while looking over their shoulder on the train, open the photo storage app on their phone. It looks like a social media feed. It looks like Instagram. But you see the sorts... 7d ago received

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in thread "The roots of modern yoga and the future of physical culture":

It's true of many Eastern traditions, and especially those that might seem to wear a fairly ancient patina—they're the products of transcultural circulation: young men were traveling out of the East in the early modern period, and others were traveling i... 2w ago received

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in thread "on ugliness":

I think it's worthwhile to connect sociology to aesthetics. It's good to think about why we classify things as "ugly" or "beautiful." You've invited the reader to imagine a dust-colored hooligan with his neck covered in ink, his ears and nostrils full of m... 2w ago received

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in thread "Chinese Industrialization, a view from within China":

I suppose the irony is intentional—a nakedly sentimental appeal against sentimentalism. So, maybe Wang Xiaodong, writing in 2011, realized the coming importance of affective governance 情感治理 (qínggǎn 情感, here, and the qínghuái 情怀 for t... 4w ago received

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in thread "On American Political Aesthetics":

As for the first question, I think the answer would come from the ways that the United States hoped to resist its enemies, who believed in a particular sort of aestheticization of politics and politicization of aesthetics. I'm thinking of the Walter Benjam... 1mo ago received

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All right, leaving aside broader Western aesthetic decline and so on. I think you're right: "well-coordinated and aesthetically competent" definitely fits the first Obama administration. A great deal of his domestic and global appeal was built on re-aesthe... 4w ago received

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in thread "Beauty Tycoons (Avetis Muradyan)":

I think Avetis Muradyan has good taste. I think his conclusion is right, even if I would get there in a different way. I wish that MFA students were the sorts of communists that Walter Benjamin was talking about. I wish that we had the sort of fascist art ... 1mo ago received

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in thread "How to catch a wife, 2025 edition.":

This list gives me a good idea of what you might imagine a good husband to be, but it raises the question of what a good wife is. The list is good, but it needs a preamble, setting out exactly what the young man should be looking for. (My definition might ... 1mo ago received

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in thread "Bad influences on my intellectual side":

I think my first piece of advice would be to develop your communication skills. I read the post a couple times, and I'm still not sure what sort of situation you're describing. But before becoming a better writer, work at becoming a better conversationalis... 6mo ago received

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