notebook from december 2025
Notes on "gorp jazz," Giorgio Agamben, Enlightenment racism, plus more notes from David Graeber and David Wengrow
2025 Top Ten(-ish) List
Here are my top-ten-ish 2025 albums, arranged more-or-less alphabetically, plus another dozen or so honorable mentions.
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FRANKENSTEIN (2025)
The good: memorable creature-work, embodied well by Jacob Elordi's
Johanna Hedva's HOW TO TELL WHEN WE WILL DIE
Notes (oldest to newest)
1. Privilege and sociality
2. Patients as producers
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MAGNOLIA (1999) ★
Sorry everyone: this is still P. T. Anderson's best film.
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notebook from november 2025
Notes from Barbara Duden, the Care Collective, and others