Mark Dery Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Pairs well w/ @erik_davis's interview w/ Merrill scholar Stephen Yenser, which despite my hostility to belief in (as opposed to willful, Surrealist *misuse* of) divinatory tools and not having read The Changing Light at Sandover, I found enthralling: https://techgnosis.com/ouija-board-poetics/ https://twitter.com/BeineckeLibrary/status/1480247754949632006

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My latest MEDIUM post, on "Broicism," the philosophy of "Stoic" Bro's https://t.co/3beriK8DA9 "Broicism is Stoicism as life hack. For tech bro’s riding a turbulent NASDAQ, it’s a stress ball. For Tim Ferriss fans, it’s a dude-ly regimen for success through "Roman" self-discipline

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Reality itself--American reality, at least--is trolling us, every day. J.G. Ballard claimed, in 1974, that media-deranged reality had become stranger than fiction; that we were living in a novel. He couldn't have known it would be _The Turner Diaries_. https://t.co/LCg96p2ypR

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Pairs nicely with with a copy of Jeff Jarvis's pro-bono advertorial, _What Would Google Do?_, a smarmy exercise in TED-Talky CEO suck-up that has aged well. https://t.co/tnVkpIfZhV

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@Msmifflin, author of THE BLUE TATTOO (about Olive Oatman, a pioneer girl abducted by the Mojave who embraced their ways, incl. a chin tattoo, https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Tattoo-Olive-Oatman-Women/dp/0803235178), will thrill to this. Mifflin interviewed Maori tattooists in NZ about their work. Wish she'd publish on that! https://twitter.com/TelegraphWorld/status/1476252502488227850

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"Broicism": the missing link between Stoicism, life-hack bro's like Ryan Holiday and Tim Ferriss, and the alt-right's appropriation of "Roman-ness" (see, also, Donna Zuckerberg's NOT ALL DEAD WHITE MEN) https://t.co/3beriK8DA9 https://t.co/FMtDuaCMVA

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From The Annals of Invisible Literature: Featherstone's controversial 1932 inquiry into suicidality and the phases of the moon. A precursor of the anti-psychiatry school of the '60s (R.D. Laing, Thomas Szasz), Featherstone remains a divisive figure.. https://t.co/92DRyfaNzh https://t.co/G2yWotYVC6

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“It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.” ― Emil Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born. https://t.co/XgIlnT2T2r

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"Curious to know if Chansley really is emblematic of the batshit style in American politics, as Richard J. Hofstadter never called it, I bought a copy of his book, One Mind at a Time: A Deep State of Illusion, self-published in 2020..." https://t.co/70wZaUQllg https://t.co/KAUPZnHVCk

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From _The Notebooks of Raymond Chandler_ (which includes "English Summer: A Gothic Romance," illustrated by Edward Gorey. #raymondchandler #edwardgorey https://t.co/tRBs5CH0HQ