I am so utterly sick & tired of hearing about Roberto Bolaño. Everywhere I go someone is waxing his car. Let me go on record as saying, Roberto Bolaño is the most overrated author of the 21st century. Roberto Bolaño is the new Philip Roth.
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French artist Franck Juery:
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Douglas Newman offers a list of "Underappreciated [musical] Artists Due for a Breakout in ‘09"
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Did you know Claude Lévi-Strauss is still alive? He turned 100 last week. Jahsonic has an excellent post on the topic.
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Media Assemblages has an illuminating long post on "DeLanda's Intensive Science and Virtual Philosophy," which includes discussion of important Deleuzian correlations.
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Collage by Gordon Magnin:
