The Universal and the Vacuous Events

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Birth and death, the interregnum; Ayşegül Savaş, Shakespeare, Twombly, Lacan; zen buddhism, the body, the erotic, sacrifice, names, being transgender…

Jul 20 • 

Rafe Meager

24

9

May 2025

A guess from a guess

Translation, research, conjecture; Linear Elamite, Rumi; the position of Jupiter drives the invention of agriculture; an economist does something good

May 21 • 

Rafe Meager

83

21

March 2025

You’re not getting Boy with Apple you god damn little fruit!

The Wes Anderson Essay

Mar 23 • 

Rafe Meager

55

23

January 2025

Taking Our Chances

This one's for the academy, I guess

Jan 18 • 

Rafe Meager

80

38

December 2024

Huck & Jim

at the art institute of Chicago

Dec 3, 2024 • 

Rafe Meager

34

15

October 2024

The red shoes are never tired

Ambition, community, theft and satiety

Oct 25, 2024 • 

Rafe Meager

23

13

August 2024

Against Forgiveness

In favour of guilt; above, there is no shuffling

Aug 19, 2024 • 

Rafe Meager

87

14

July 2024

List of things the book has outlasted

And my thoughts on being lonely

Jul 3, 2024 • 

Rafe Meager

31

16

June 2024

Tormented by an Urn

Teaching, learning, love and fear; the aesthetic sensibility of math

Jun 4, 2024 • 

Rafe Meager

39

18

May 2024

Elio Forever

Love and memory, life as a ruined peach

May 1, 2024 • 

Rafe Meager

27

7

March 2024

They do build statues of critics

Nope (2022), the concept of art criticism; Lockwood on Ferrante, Grizzutti Harrison on Didion; Boss Baby meme, Stoppard, Plath

Mar 31, 2024 • 

Rafe Meager

25

7

February 2024

Small Islands

Disaster, anxiety, and the scale of catastrophe

Feb 21, 2024 • 

Rafe Meager

18

6