notebook from september 2024

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1. The state of news reporting

2. Ted Chiang on generative AI

3. Early Brendan Murray albums

4. Defunct labels to consider for reissue

5. "Teaching students to think"

6. The "monologic composition"

7. The "dialogical discourse"

8. Moffett on rhetoric

9. Levels of verbal abstraction

10. Audience, experience, and abstraction

11. Imperatives and interrogatives and the "action relation"

12. Punctuation and speech

13. Poverty Point

14. Indigineous standards of measurement

15. Hunter-gatherer amphitheaters

16. European forager art

17. “Termite art”

18. Emotional responses to horror

19. 1690: Locke and labor

20. Indigenous land management

21. Foragers in extreme climates

22. Rashid Khalidi's "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine"

23. "Structures of exclusion"

24. C. B. Macpherson's "possessive individualism"

25. Fargo Nissim Tbakhi's "Notes on Craft"

26. The "excretative mode" in Ulysses

27. McCarthy on Ponge

28. Things in Ulysses

29. McCarthy on Un Coup de Des

30. “How Comics Were Made”

31. "The Race of Sound"

32. Ray Ogar

33. "Kubernetes"

34. Cybernetics, information, and communication

35. Kafka the cyberneticist

36. Robbe-Grillet's "Dressmaker's Dummy"

37. Bhanu Pratap's "Cutting Season"

38. Jean-Philippe Toussaint

39. The nouveau roman and space

40. Ed Ruscha, language and space

41. Samuel Delany's parting with science fiction

42. Creativity and the failure to create

43. Delany's "observation and organization"