Better Than Friday - 75

Good morning ya'll, hope you're well. Get that coffee. 

1. Nina Power - Platforms 

Nina Power was one of the instructors who taught and gave some fantastic lectures in the online course I took on Georges Bataille. A very knowledgeable and interesting thinker. Looking forward to this short experimental read...Looks like it's unfortunately sold out on the publisher's website :/

Someone will definitely get my copy though. Looks like it's already rare hahaha

Over a decade ago, Nina Power’s One Dimensional Woman appealed to a new generation of feminists and critical thinkers. 

PLATFORMS is a confessional essay-poem “in this season in microhell, in this jetlag of the heart.” Dissecting her own existence with philosophical enquiry, she wonders if “everyone must tend towards masochism or sadism?… or can one proceed, sexually, socially, without these ideas altogether?”

Addressed to an unnamed lover, this automatic, surreal text was composed on a psychedelic New York train journey in 2019, where the ghosts of her friends and tormentors are visible through the window: Kierkegaard, alcohol, Kant wrestling with the spirits, her late friend and contemporary Mark Fisher.

In light of a global “lockdown,” her visions of both Armageddon and Acid Communism now appear prophetic.

2. BIRD 

I love Charlie Parker. I heard this last night on KMHD, solid.

3. New Knausgaard interview from Paris Review. O-Boy

The best thing about The Paris Review is the interviews. 

He's one of the greatest living authors, so, voila. 

"Art is about transgressing the expected, not confirming the world as we know it."

4. Jean Dujardin's OSS 117 Dancing 

I think he was mentioned in the discord and it made me think of this. 

Far better than 'The Artist'.

5. This came recommended, anybody seen it? 

Antiquarian booksellers are part scholar, part detective and part businessperson, and their personalities and knowledge are as broad as the material they handle. They also play an underappreciated yet essential role in preserving history. THE BOOKSELLERS takes viewers inside their small but fascinating world, populated by an assortment of obsessives, intellects, eccentrics and dreamers.

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The verticality of this tree is bizarre. Like static electricity raising the hairs on its branch arms.