A Brooklyn Culture Mafia

[catalog]

Jafa talks about how black people who came over as slaves had nothing but their bodies. They had to carry their history in their body, so he says the focus on the black body as the site of identity is that much stronger for black people.

Projective verse.

 

[beiser]

still think about Jafa’s kanye vid sometimes, incredible visuals:

 

[catalog]

Yeah that's good as well, same sort of vibe as love is the message. But love is the message is amazing, spine tingingly good. I made a thread on it somewhere.

 

[catalog]

The use of Ultralight Beam is one thing but he also has Earl sweatshirt, biggie, James brown, all in 7 mins

 

[version]

Arthur Jafa

He's bigger than Kanye, warrants his own thread

dissensus.com

 

[sus]

Life is about choices, you can move up in the world and spend time with well educated, ambitious go getters trading zings about Whole Foods salad bar or stay in the back of the class with the lads

I want it both ways, so does beiser going off his posts here. I think this is the optimism of youth—not having to choose

 

[sus]

not that I give a shit about Whole Foods salad bars, but the power to influence simultaneous with the power to reject.

 

[sus]

Gaddis talks about this a lot in the Recognitions or so I hear.

 

[version]

Gaddis talks about this a lot in the Recognitions or so I hear.

I preordered the new NYRB edition, so should hopefully arrive soon.

 

[sus]

Probably the "artist's artist" or the "writer's writer" is as close as you get.

 

[linebaugh]

Gaddis talks about this a lot in the Recognitions or so I hear.

Ive thought about mentioning the recognitions several times in here, this whole thread screams it. Though not sure what you mean by the power to reject

 

[sus]

I preordered the new NYRB edition, so should hopefully arrive soon.

Have you read? Can you testify to this?

 

[sus]

Steve Moore: "The lack of recognition for that monumental achievement [The Recognitions] surprised me, but was a life-changing blow to Gaddis. The failure to achieve something that was perhaps not worth doing in the first place became a signature theme in his subsequent novels"

my friend B: "like 300 pages of the recognitions is dedicated to excoriating normies for having shit taste, i don't get why gaddis was surprised that people didn't get it."

 

[version]

Have you read? Can you testify to this?

No. @IdleRich read it pretty recently though.

 

[catalog]

Steve "moon" Moore or someone else?

 

[version]

Steven Moore (author) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[version]

What Is (and Isn’t) Literature? – 3:AM Magazine

As the editor of American Book Review, Di Leo knows better than most how easily worthy authors can be overlooked: that journal is devoted to covering interesting but nonmainstream literary works, most from small and university presses, that tend to be ignored by the review media. But the other...

www.3ammagazine.com

 

[Mr. Tea]

Like the song, Jesus was way cool. I used to pray to the cunt every Sunday at mass, but he never returned my calls. Don’t know who he’s seeing these days. Think he has a bondage kink.

Too busy building hotrods.

 

[catalog]

Don't get this gaddis obsession you've got versh. Buy British. Dickens, Austen, take your pick.

 

[linebaugh]

Theres a joke in there where the punchline is spaced out 900 pages between the set up. Whole book is full of cutesy obscurantist stuff like that. I think that more than anything can be attributed to its initial failure. It reads as an insecure 20 something looking to stake his claim amongst the big boys and the gambit collapses in on itself