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Manuscript Editor, U Chicago Press.

River North/Streeterville skyline from the Ohio Street beach.
A graph with two axes. The y-axis runs from democratic to oligarchical, and the x-axis runs from monarchy to republic. In each corner, there are emoji of the flags of countries that represent those traits. For example, Spain is a monarchy with democratic institutions, but Saudi Arabia is a monarchy with oligarchic institutions. On the republican side, Brazil is a republic with democratic institutions, and North Korea is a republic with oligarchic institutions.
Picture of a cookbook page, opened to read: CULIU BAI CAI 醋溜白菜 CHINESE CABBAGE WITH VINEGAR Chinese cabbage has a mild favor with just a hint of mustardy sharpness and, after cooking, a delightfully juicy texture. The following is a Sichuanese version of a simple but satisfying supper dish that is made in many parts of China, in which brown nice vinegar lends its mellow fragrance to the greens. The vinegar is added at the end of the cooking time, to preserve its aroma. The name of the dish reminds me of a song, to the tune of "Happy Birthday," which my Sichuanese friends Zhou Yu and Tao Ping sung to me once on my birthday in Chengdu: “hanca/ baica/ tudou! Hancai baicai tudou!” It sounds a bit like the words to "Happy Birthday," but means "Amaranth, Chinese cabbage, potatoes! Amaranth, Chinese cabbage, potatoes!" 11 oz (300g) Chinese leaf Salt 2 tsp Chinklang vinegar cabbage 2 tbsp cooking oil 1 tsp potato flour mixed with ¼ tsp sugar 1 tbsp water (optional) Cut the cabbage into 3/8 in (1-2cm) slices. Bring a pan full of water to a boil and blanch the cabbage for a minute or two to soften the thicker parts of the leaves. Remove to a colander and shake dry. Add the oil to a seasoned wok over a high flame, swirl it around, then add the cabbage and stir-fry for a couple of minutes. Add the sugar, and salt to taste. Pour in the vinegar and stir swiftly in. If you are using the flour mixture, add it now and stir quickly to allow it to thicken the juices. Serve.
Hegel, from the Phenomenology, in Pinkard's translation: "They speak of the existence of external objects, which, to put it more precisely, can be determined to be actual, absolutely individual, wholly personal, individual things, each of which is absolutely unlike the others. This existence is said to have absolute certainty and truth. They mean this piece of paper on which I am writing (or rather have written) this. But they do not say what they mean. If they actually wanted to say what they mean about this piece of paper, and if they wanted to say it, then it would be impossible because the sensuous “this,” which is what is meant, is inaccessible to the language which belongs to consciousness, that is, to what is in itself universal. In the actual attempt to say it, it itself would thereby rot away. Those who began a description would not be able to complete it; rather, they would have to leave it to others, who would finally themselves have to confess to speaking about a thing that is not. They therefore do mean this piece of paper, which is here totally other than the one mentioned above, but they speak of actual things, external or sensuous objects, absolutely individual entities, etc. That is to say, they say of them merely what is universal; thus, what is called the unsayable is nothing other than the untrue, the irrational, what is merely meant. – If nothing more is said of a thing..."
NYT headline that reads: "Epstein's Ties with Academics Show the Seedy Side of College Fundraising: Professors and presidents are often eager to raise outside cash. Some are now facing blowback after connecting with Jeffrey Epstein"
Attendees at the 2024 RNC with Mass Deportation Now! posters
According to data examined by Civiqs, 42 percent support getting rid of the agency while 50 percent oppose doing so, a split of just 8 points. This represents a major shift from a year ago, at the start of President Donald Trump's second term, when only 24 percent of Americans supported abolishing ICE and 59 percent opposed the idea, a 35-point split.
A marble countertop with gift boxes full of Chicago mix popcorn labeled with Ritz-Carlton branding. If you don’t know, Chicago mix is what Midwesterners call the blend of cheese and caramel popcorn, which makes an excellent bar snack; it’s very good with beer. I didn’t ask what they cost.
A TV shows a CNN still with Pete Hegseth making a puzzled impression above a chyron that reads Facing New Criticism.
French revolutionary grafitti from 1968, reading sous les pavés, la plage; beneath the paving stones (that might be dug up to build barricades), the beach!
View from my apartment of a sunny, snow-filled park with multicolored trees; behind is Lake Michigan beneath dramatic clouds.
Photo shows my hand holding the sleeve of a 1984 Ladysmith Black Mambazo record, Induku Zethu. The cover has a photograph of eight musicians clad in traditional Zulu clothing.
싫어 @hermit_hwarang ... american *sees something american happening americanly in america*: what are we a bunch of ASIANS?!?!???
A text I sent to a friend: is there a punk band called “girl dad”
The in/famously inscrutable topology diagrams of how desire and drive interact with language from the midcentury psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan. They illustrate Lacan’s argument that the speaking subject constitutes him/herself retrospectively through signification. The grammatical time of syntax goes from left to right, and the vertical axis represents an orientation from self to other. So we see in the looping curves of the diagram that what begins as an expression from the self to the other loops back towards the self and also backwards in the time of the signifying chain—that is, in expressing myself, the self that I am expressing in words comes to feel to me like something that preexisted its expression. This is what it is to be an organism that uses language, he thinks. This is very similar to a cartoon cat.
A tweet from @hermit_hwarang reads: american *sees something american happening americanly in america*: what are we a bunch of ASIANS?!?!???
A cartoon: A bird, labeled (French historian/philosopher) “Foucault,” is doing standup. He says that things are like prisons and gets heckled; he starts to sweat and we see that his notecards for subsequent jokes are just a series of institutions (factories, schools, hospitals…) compared to prisons.
Photo of a four foot tall ice stalagmite with about a four inch diameter behind my building, whose brick exterior is shown behind it. It has formed from the drips of condensation falling from a dryer exhaust outlet. It catches the sunlight brilliantly.
Hospital waiting room with a “vitals kiosk” demarcated with a purple barrier labeled as “committed to you.” This put an ancient REM song into my head.
Excerpt from Joe Wenderoth’s 2000 book “Letter to Wendy’s”: under the date September 13, 1996, the passage reads “Rather than restrict sexual activity to a specific set of acts, or restrict the articulation of such acts, we need only draw real lines, lines upon the earth, to mark whether or not sexuality is in this place active. The question is: is sex now, here? If it is, well then. If it isn’t, as, in Wendy’s, it always isn’t, then a campaign dawns, and we stand fast in the sexy inception of already failed propaganda.”
Nick’s reflection on the window from the inside of an el car; his face is obscured by a word written in orange text on a sign on the platform that reads “no.” The orange text matches his hat.
A shelf of books at the used bookshop in my neighborhood containing, among other titles, Naomi Wolf’s “Fire with Fire.”