padraig (u.s.)

a monkey that will go ape
This thread has actually given me a good idea
one can only hope it's a massive, sprawling Pynchonesque novel tying together - among other things - Killah Priest, 21st C. authoritarian female political figures, giallo cinema, Wales, and 80s R+B to tell the true political-psychological story of our times

with plenty of, one further hopes, badly written sex
 

padraig (u.s.)

a monkey that will go ape
excellent. and I think you're on relatively safe ground talking about Palin as she's not directly of the moment, even if she helps to explain it.

it has a fitting symmetry, and it encapsulates/brushes upon a wide swathe of the dark side of international politics in so far in this century

energy, Central Asia, democratic retreat and autocratic advance, right-wing populism, fake news and the death of facts, etc

the transition from post-Cold War neoliberal hegemony thru the breakdown of that order (to the extent it existed) to wherever we are now
 

luka

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"Her property portfolio cut into the dark heart of Tashkent nightlife, but her daytime employment remained impeccable."
 

luka

Well-known member
one of the things i admire about craner is that he has 'interests'. who has interests in this day and age?
 

luka

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"In 2005, GooGoosha appeared like a glazed apparition out of the gun-smoke of Andijan. Already a self-described poet and designer, Gulnara’s brief detour into music was an impressively mad move in a country famous for its extravagant progressive rock scene and exquisite devotion to the lute."

what is this perverse timeline we are living in where owen hatherly is published by penguin and oliver craner is not famous at all?
 

padraig (u.s.)

a monkey that will go ape
craner does have something of the air of literary intellectual of the 1930s or so. a man of letters.

back when people had interests and cared about things
 

padraig (u.s.)

a monkey that will go ape
I've been talking up that Gulnara essay for years

long before Veep devoted an entire season to the rottenness and hypocrisy of 21st C. global elite gladhanding, our man was on the case
 

luka

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you have to really relish that kind of corrupt glamour, curdled wealth and gleeful vulgarity to write well about it.
 
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