Ryan Ruby @ryanruby on Kojève - would have never thought the man behind the Hegel lectures would deserve film treatment, some mindblowing details in the review, f.ex. Kojève was also a French civil servant and a KGB agent negotiating EEC (the first form before EC and the EU) and the GATT?!
Hegel Dust
A little-known philosopher’s deep influence over the avant-garde, neoconservatives, and the European Union
– Ryan Ruby
www.bookforum.com
July 19, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Ryan Ruby @ryanruby on Kojève - would have never thought the man behind the Hegel lectures would deserve film treatment, some mindblowing details in the review, f.ex. Kojève was also a French civil servant and a KGB agent negotiating EEC (the first form before EC and the EU) and the GATT?!
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January 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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January 31, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Writing poetry, reading poetry: these are ethical activities when all is said and done, concerned with our mode of being. And as long as we are being beings the only being we impoverish by not writing poetry is our own
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January 31, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Writing poetry, reading poetry: these are ethical activities when all is said and done, concerned with our mode of being. And as long as we are being beings the only being we impoverish by not writing poetry is our own
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At the peak of its popularity
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According to a 2018 study by the National Endowment for the Arts, the percentage of poetry readers (ages 18-24) had doubled since 2012. Among adults, poetry reading increased by 76%.
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According to a 2018 study by the National Endowment for the Arts, the percentage of poetry readers (ages 18-24) had doubled since 2012. Among adults, poetry reading increased by 76%.
January 31, 2025 at 2:45 PM
At the peak of its popularity
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According to a 2018 study by the National Endowment for the Arts, the percentage of poetry readers (ages 18-24) had doubled since 2012. Among adults, poetry reading increased by 76%.
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According to a 2018 study by the National Endowment for the Arts, the percentage of poetry readers (ages 18-24) had doubled since 2012. Among adults, poetry reading increased by 76%.
And when context becomes the new content,
CONTEXT COLLAPSE cannot be far behind.
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CONTEXT COLLAPSE cannot be far behind.
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January 31, 2025 at 2:44 PM
And when context becomes the new content,
CONTEXT COLLAPSE cannot be far behind.
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CONTEXT COLLAPSE cannot be far behind.
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The exception's name is Rupi Kaur, who-along with a maybe two or three other Instapoets is one of the few people on the planet who are actually able to make a living exclusively from writing poetry-if you can call it that.
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January 30, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The exception's name is Rupi Kaur, who-along with a maybe two or three other Instapoets is one of the few people on the planet who are actually able to make a living exclusively from writing poetry-if you can call it that.
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But a basic law of economics
That makes poetry seem irrelevant
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"A piece of paper has a definite economic value,” he says, quoting Roof publisher James Sherry. "If you print a poem on it, this value is lost."
That makes poetry seem irrelevant
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"A piece of paper has a definite economic value,” he says, quoting Roof publisher James Sherry. "If you print a poem on it, this value is lost."
January 30, 2025 at 1:56 PM
But a basic law of economics
That makes poetry seem irrelevant
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"A piece of paper has a definite economic value,” he says, quoting Roof publisher James Sherry. "If you print a poem on it, this value is lost."
That makes poetry seem irrelevant
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"A piece of paper has a definite economic value,” he says, quoting Roof publisher James Sherry. "If you print a poem on it, this value is lost."
And if this sounds
Alarmist, consider that it hasn't
Even begun to take into account
Publishing degree zero: the Internet:
A.k.a. networked digital media.
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Alarmist, consider that it hasn't
Even begun to take into account
Publishing degree zero: the Internet:
A.k.a. networked digital media.
#Ruby25 #RyanRuby #ContextCollapse
January 30, 2025 at 1:55 PM
And if this sounds
Alarmist, consider that it hasn't
Even begun to take into account
Publishing degree zero: the Internet:
A.k.a. networked digital media.
#Ruby25 #RyanRuby #ContextCollapse
Alarmist, consider that it hasn't
Even begun to take into account
Publishing degree zero: the Internet:
A.k.a. networked digital media.
#Ruby25 #RyanRuby #ContextCollapse
Compared to film, painting, sculpture, and music, literary genres in general require minimal capital outlay, and lyric, in particular, being brief, is far less time- and labor-intensive than the drama, short story, or novel.
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January 30, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Compared to film, painting, sculpture, and music, literary genres in general require minimal capital outlay, and lyric, in particular, being brief, is far less time- and labor-intensive than the drama, short story, or novel.
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Craig Dworkin estimates
That by the first decade of the twenty-first
Century, over one thousand book-length
Collections of "serious" poetry
Were being cranked out in the US per Annum.
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That by the first decade of the twenty-first
Century, over one thousand book-length
Collections of "serious" poetry
Were being cranked out in the US per Annum.
#Ruby25 #RyanRuby #ContextCollapse
January 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Craig Dworkin estimates
That by the first decade of the twenty-first
Century, over one thousand book-length
Collections of "serious" poetry
Were being cranked out in the US per Annum.
#Ruby25 #RyanRuby #ContextCollapse
That by the first decade of the twenty-first
Century, over one thousand book-length
Collections of "serious" poetry
Were being cranked out in the US per Annum.
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Which has the lowest barrier to entry Of any art form in any medium,
Is, for this reason, particularly Vulnerable to sharp fluctuations
In supply. Making a back-of-the-napkin
Calculation
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Is, for this reason, particularly Vulnerable to sharp fluctuations
In supply. Making a back-of-the-napkin
Calculation
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January 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Which has the lowest barrier to entry Of any art form in any medium,
Is, for this reason, particularly Vulnerable to sharp fluctuations
In supply. Making a back-of-the-napkin
Calculation
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Is, for this reason, particularly Vulnerable to sharp fluctuations
In supply. Making a back-of-the-napkin
Calculation
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January 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
January 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
[T]he curator is interested not in what... texts "say" but rather in what words occur in these texts and what words do not. (Emphasis added.)
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January 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
[T]he curator is interested not in what... texts "say" but rather in what words occur in these texts and what words do not. (Emphasis added.)
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Merger of poetry and poetics,
A friendly takeover ostensibly Undertaken in the name of a certain Oft-neglected external stakeholder Some in the movement liked to call the reader.
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🎨Pierre-Auguste Renoir
A friendly takeover ostensibly Undertaken in the name of a certain Oft-neglected external stakeholder Some in the movement liked to call the reader.
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🎨Pierre-Auguste Renoir
January 29, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Merger of poetry and poetics,
A friendly takeover ostensibly Undertaken in the name of a certain Oft-neglected external stakeholder Some in the movement liked to call the reader.
#Ruby25 #RyanRuby #ContextCollapse
🎨Pierre-Auguste Renoir
A friendly takeover ostensibly Undertaken in the name of a certain Oft-neglected external stakeholder Some in the movement liked to call the reader.
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🎨Pierre-Auguste Renoir
To turn William Carlos Williams' quip on its head: all countercommunicative texts communicate the same thing of no importance, viz., communication is dead.
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January 29, 2025 at 3:11 PM
To turn William Carlos Williams' quip on its head: all countercommunicative texts communicate the same thing of no importance, viz., communication is dead.
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as the rapacious
Scramble to lay one's claim to novelty Comes to operate under conditions Of informational saturation
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●Hasn't the epithet poet's poet basically become a pleonasm?
Scramble to lay one's claim to novelty Comes to operate under conditions Of informational saturation
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●Hasn't the epithet poet's poet basically become a pleonasm?
January 29, 2025 at 3:10 PM
as the rapacious
Scramble to lay one's claim to novelty Comes to operate under conditions Of informational saturation
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●Hasn't the epithet poet's poet basically become a pleonasm?
Scramble to lay one's claim to novelty Comes to operate under conditions Of informational saturation
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●Hasn't the epithet poet's poet basically become a pleonasm?
In Barthes's notorious paraphrase, when
C'est le langage qui parle [et] pas l'auteur.
Now do you agree? Anyhow. QED.
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C'est le langage qui parle [et] pas l'auteur.
Now do you agree? Anyhow. QED.
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January 27, 2025 at 4:15 PM
In Barthes's notorious paraphrase, when
C'est le langage qui parle [et] pas l'auteur.
Now do you agree? Anyhow. QED.
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C'est le langage qui parle [et] pas l'auteur.
Now do you agree? Anyhow. QED.
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You disagree?
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In his review of Composition as Explanation, Eliot wrote: "If [Stein] is of the future, then the future is... of the barbarians." He would not have been wrong had he instead written: of the bots.
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In his review of Composition as Explanation, Eliot wrote: "If [Stein] is of the future, then the future is... of the barbarians." He would not have been wrong had he instead written: of the bots.
January 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
You disagree?
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In his review of Composition as Explanation, Eliot wrote: "If [Stein] is of the future, then the future is... of the barbarians." He would not have been wrong had he instead written: of the bots.
#Ruby25 #RyanRuby #ContextCollapse
In his review of Composition as Explanation, Eliot wrote: "If [Stein] is of the future, then the future is... of the barbarians." He would not have been wrong had he instead written: of the bots.
Between these tendencies, one could be found
In the writings of Gertrude Stein, who ought-
More than Joyce, Proust, Kafka, or even Pound-
To be regarded as the century's Preeminent literary figure.
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In the writings of Gertrude Stein, who ought-
More than Joyce, Proust, Kafka, or even Pound-
To be regarded as the century's Preeminent literary figure.
#Ruby25 #RyanRuby #ContextCollapse
January 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Between these tendencies, one could be found
In the writings of Gertrude Stein, who ought-
More than Joyce, Proust, Kafka, or even Pound-
To be regarded as the century's Preeminent literary figure.
#Ruby25 #RyanRuby #ContextCollapse
In the writings of Gertrude Stein, who ought-
More than Joyce, Proust, Kafka, or even Pound-
To be regarded as the century's Preeminent literary figure.
#Ruby25 #RyanRuby #ContextCollapse
The Futurists and Dadaists, by contrast,
Seeking a wider audience (humankind)
For their "primitivist" rites of renewal, Force language in the opposite direction:
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Seeking a wider audience (humankind)
For their "primitivist" rites of renewal, Force language in the opposite direction:
#Ruby25 #RyanRuby #ContextCollapse
January 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The Futurists and Dadaists, by contrast,
Seeking a wider audience (humankind)
For their "primitivist" rites of renewal, Force language in the opposite direction:
#Ruby25 #RyanRuby #ContextCollapse
Seeking a wider audience (humankind)
For their "primitivist" rites of renewal, Force language in the opposite direction:
#Ruby25 #RyanRuby #ContextCollapse
Even when the signals sent
Can only be received as intended
By a self-selecting semipublic-
A caste of fellow poets,connaisseurs,
Professional critics, and, professors Its portfolio is still diversified,
As it retains investments in rhetoric.
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Can only be received as intended
By a self-selecting semipublic-
A caste of fellow poets,connaisseurs,
Professional critics, and, professors Its portfolio is still diversified,
As it retains investments in rhetoric.
#Ruby25 #RyanRuby #ContextCollapse
January 26, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Even when the signals sent
Can only be received as intended
By a self-selecting semipublic-
A caste of fellow poets,connaisseurs,
Professional critics, and, professors Its portfolio is still diversified,
As it retains investments in rhetoric.
#Ruby25 #RyanRuby #ContextCollapse
Can only be received as intended
By a self-selecting semipublic-
A caste of fellow poets,connaisseurs,
Professional critics, and, professors Its portfolio is still diversified,
As it retains investments in rhetoric.
#Ruby25 #RyanRuby #ContextCollapse
But then the "damned flamboyant" persona
Of what was not yet called the "Song of Myself,"
Was less a "multitude" than (sub)triune,
A reductio ad individuum
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Of what was not yet called the "Song of Myself,"
Was less a "multitude" than (sub)triune,
A reductio ad individuum
#Ruby25 #RyanRuby #ContextCollapse
January 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
But then the "damned flamboyant" persona
Of what was not yet called the "Song of Myself,"
Was less a "multitude" than (sub)triune,
A reductio ad individuum
#Ruby25 #RyanRuby #ContextCollapse
Of what was not yet called the "Song of Myself,"
Was less a "multitude" than (sub)triune,
A reductio ad individuum
#Ruby25 #RyanRuby #ContextCollapse