Many of these links have been tweeted in the past, but here I can tag and categorise them for future reference. I hope you find some of them interesting too. Please feel free to discuss in comments or on Twitter.
Tomas Sedlacek interview: “Consumption works like a drug. Enough is always just beyond the horizon”.
Michael Stein’s review of On the Road to Babadag: Travels in the Other Europe by Andrzej Stasiuk.
Judith Butler talks about how to read Kafka.
“A Shadow Remains explores [Phillip] Toledano’s personal history as he considers the impact that love and loss has had on his life, and the life of his family.”
ŽiŽek’s essay on Kieślowskis’ fascinating ‘The Double Life of Véronique’.
Brief but fascinating thoughts about the implications of Ray Brassier’s tough Nihil Unbound.
Interview with JG Ballard (in his Shepperton home)[in English after introduction].
Eleanor Wachtel’s 1995 conversation with Harold Bloom about The Western Canon.
“On visits to Cambridge University late in life, Jorge Luis Borges offered revealing last thoughts about his reading and writing.”
Subversive and brilliant adbusts. “Advertising makes people … detest their appearance”.
Foucault and social media: I tweet, therefore I become.
On literature and evil, the only recorded TV interview with Georges Bataille.
Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy – full text [PDF] of Neoliberalism and its crisis.
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