max1461

The computer, which is widely used for playing solitaire[1], calculating large prime numbers[2][3], finding gay hook-ups[4], and organizing political extremism[5][6][7],

MY EVERYTHING HURTS !!!!!!!!!!

kicking my feet smiling twirling my hair giggling thinking about what mentor said to me earlier today

its crazy how he should be a woman ??

freakvampiresex

its nothing some ibuprofen and a blunt and 5 beers and a head injury and jacking off and killing myself cant fix

freakvampiresex

its nothing some ibuprofen and a blunt and 5 beers and a head injury and jacking off and killing myself cant fix

thererisesaredstar

Near the Cosmos. Dawn flight by Stanislav Torlopov (1984)

freakvampiresex

its nothing some ibuprofen and a blunt and 5 beers and a head injury and jacking off and killing myself cant fix

pants for men are actually comfortable??? what the hell. im so sorry women.

MY EVERYTHING HURTS

gaaandaaaalf

Here’s a (non-exhaustive) list of essays I like/find interesting/are food for thought; I’ve tried to sort them as much as possible. The starred (*) ones are those I especially love

also quick note: some of these links, especially the ones that are from books/anthologies redirect you to libgen or scihub, and if that doesn’t work for you, do message me; I’d be happy to send them across!

Literature + Writing

• Godot Comes to Sarajevo - Susan Sontag
• The Strangeness of Grief - V. S. Naipaul*
• Memories of V. S. Naipaul - Paul Theroux*
  
• A Rainy Day with Ruskin Bond - Mayank Austen Soofi
• How Albert Camus Faced History - Adam Gopnik
• Listen, Bro - Jo Livingstone
• Rachel Cusk Gut-Renovates the Novel - Judith Thurman
• Lost in Translation: What the First Line of “The Stranger” Should Be - Ryan Bloom
• The Duke in His Domain - Truman Capote*
  
• The Cult of Donna Tartt: Themes and Strategies in The Secret History - Ana Rita Catalão Guedes
• Never Do That to a Book - Anne Fadiman*
• Affecting Anger: Ideologies of Community Mobilisation in Early Hindi Novel - Rohan Chauhan*
• Why I Write - George Orwell*
• Rimbaud and Patti Smith: Style as Social Deviance - Carrie Jaurès Noland*

Art + Photography (+ Aesthetics)

• Looking at War - Susan Sontag*
• Love, sex, art, and death - Nan Goldin, David Wojnarowicz
• Lyons, Szarkowski, and the Perception of Photography - Anne Wilkes Tucker
• The Feminist Critique of Art History - Thalia Gouma-Peterson, Patricia Mathews
• In Plato’s Cave - Susan Sontag*
• On reproduction of art (Chapter 1, Ways of Seeing) - John Berger*
• On nudity and women in art (Chapter 3, Ways of Seeing) - John Berger*
• Kalighat Paintings  - Sharmishtha Chaudhuri
• Daydreams and Fragments: On How We Retrieve Images From the Past -  Maël Renouard
• Arthur Rimbaud: the Aesthetics of Intoxication - Enid Rhodes Peschel

Cities

• Tragic Fable of Mumbai Mills - Gyan Prakash
• Whose Bandra is it? - Dustin Silgardo*
• Timur’s Registan: noblest public square in the world? - Srinath Perur
• The first Starbucks coffee shop, Seattle - Colin Marshall*
• Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, Mumbai’s iconic railway station - Srinath Perur
• From London to Mumbai and Back Again: Gentrification and Public Policy in Comparative Perspective -  Andrew Harris
• The Limits of “White Town” in Colonial Calcutta - Swati Chattopadhyay
• The Metropolis and Mental Life - Georg Simmel
• Colonial Policy and the Culture of Immigration: Citing the Social History of Varanasi - Vinod Kumar, Shiv Narayan
• A Caribbean Creole Capital: Kingston, Jamaica - Coln G. Clarke (from Colonial Cities by Robert Ross, Gerard J. Telkamp
• The Colonial City and the Post-Colonial World - G. A. de Bruijne
• The Nowhere City - Amos Elon*
• The Vertical Flâneur: Narratorial Tradecraft in the Colonial Metropolis - Paul K. Saint-Amour

Philosophy

• The trolley problem problem - James Wilson
• A Brief History of Death - Nir Baram
• Justice as Fairness: Political not Metaphysical - John Rawls*
• Should Marxists be Interested in Exploitation? - John E. Roemer
• The Discomfort You’re Feeling is Grief - Scott Berinato*
• The Pandemic and the Crisis of Faith - Makarand Paranjape
• If God Is Dead, Your Time is Everything - James Wood
• Giving Up on God - Ronald Inglehart
• The Limits of Consensual Decision - Douglas Rae*
• The Science of “Muddling Through” - Charles Lindblom*

History

• The Gruesome History of Eating Corpses as Medicine - Maria Dolan
• The History of Loneliness - Jill Lepore*
• From Tuskegee to Togo: the Problem of Freedom in the Empire of Cotton - Sven Beckert*
• Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism - E. P. Thompson*
• All By Myself - Martha Bailey*
• The Geographical Pivot of History - H. J. Mackinder
  

The sea/ocean

• Rim of Life - Manu Pillai
• Exploring the Indian Ocean as a rich archive of history – above and below the water line - Isabel Hofmeyr, Charne Lavery
• ‘Piracy’, connectivity and seaborne power in the Middle Ages - Nikolas Jaspert (from The Sea in History)*
• The Vikings and their age - Nils Blomkvist (from The Sea in History)*
• Mercantile Networks, Port Cities, and “Pirate” States - Roxani Eleni Margariti
• Phantom Peril in the Arctic - Robert David English, Morgan Grant Gardner*
  

Assorted ones on India

• A departure from history: Kashmiri Pandits, 1990-2001 - Alexander Evans *
• Writing Post-Orientalist Histories of the Third World - Gyan Prakash
• Empire: How Colonial India Made Modern Britain - Aditya Mukherjee
• Feminism and Nationalism in India, 1917-1947 - Aparna Basu
• The Epic Riddle of Dating Ramayana, Mahabharata - Sunaina Kumar*
• Caste and Politics: Identity Over System - Dipankar Gupta
• Our worldview is Delhi based*

Sports (you’ll have to excuse the fact that it’s only cricket but what can i say, i’m indian)

• ‘Massa Day Done:’ Cricket as a Catalyst for West Indian Independence: 1950-1962 - John Newman*
• Playing for power? rugby, Afrikaner nationalism and masculinity in South Africa, c.1900–70 - Albert Grundlingh
• When Cricket Was a Symbol, Not Just a Sport - Baz Dreisinger
• Cricket, caste, community, colonialism: the politics of a great game - Ramachandra Guha*
• Cricket and Politics in Colonial India - Ramchandra Guha
• MS Dhoni: A quiet radical who did it his way*

Music

• Brega: Music and Conflict in Urban Brazil - Samuel M. Araújo
• Color, Music and Conflict: A Study of Aggression in Trinidad with Reference to the Role of Traditional Music - J. D. Elder
• The 1975 - ‘Notes On a Conditional Form’ review - Dan Stubbs*
• Life Without Live - Rob Sheffield*
• How Britney Spears Changed Pop - Rob Sheffield
• Concert for Bangladesh
• From “Help!” to “Helping out a Friend”: Imagining South Asia through the Beatles and the Concert for Bangladesh - Samantha Christiansen 

Gender

• Clothing Behaviour as Non-verbal Resistance - Diana Crane
• The Normalisation of Queer Theory - David M. Halperin
• Menstruation and the Holocaust - Jo-Ann Owusu*
• Women’s Suffrage the Democratic Peace - Allan Dafoe
• Pink and Blue: Coloring Inside the Lines of Gender - Catherine Zuckerman*
• Women’s health concerns are dismissed more, studied less - Zoanne Clack

Food

• How Food-Obsessed Millennials Shape the Future of Food - Rachel A. Becker (as a non-food obsessed somewhat-millennial, this was interesting)
• Colonialism’s effect on how and what we eat - Coral Lee
• Tracing Europe’s influence on India’s culinary heritage - Ruth Dsouza Prabhu
• Chicken Kiev: the world’s most contested ready-meal*
• From Russia with mayo: the story of a Soviet super-salad*
• The Politics of Pancakes - Taylor Aucoin*
• How Doughnuts Fuelled the American Dream*
• Pav from the Nau
• A Short History of the Vada Pav - Saira Menezes

Fantasy (mostly just harry potter and lord of the rings)

• Purebloods and Mudbloods: Race, Species, and Power (from The Politics of Harry Potter)
• Azkaban: Discipline, Punishment, and Human Rights (from The Politics of Harry Potter)*
• Good and Evil in J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lengendarium - Jyrki Korpua
• The Fairy Story: J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis - Colin Duriez (from Tree of Tales)*
• Tolkien’s Augustinian Understanding of Good and Evil: Why The Lord of the Rings Is Not Manichean - Ralph Wood (from Tree of Tales)*

Travel

• The Hidden Cost of Wildlife Tourism
• Chronicles of a Writer’s 1950s Road Trip Across France - Kathleen Phelan
• On the Early Women Pioneers of Trail Hiking - Gwenyth Loose
• On the Mythologies of the Himalaya Mountains - Ed Douglas*

More random assorted ones

• The cosmos from the wheelchair (The Economist obituaries)*
• In El Salvador - Joan Didion
• Scientists are unravelling the mystery of pain - Yudhijit Banerjee
• Notes on Nationalism - George Orwell
• Politics and the English Language - George Orwell*
• What Do the Humanities Do in a Crisis? - Agnes Callard*
• The Politics of Joker - Kyle Smith
• Sushant Singh Rajput: The outsider - Uday Bhatia*
• Credibility and Mystery - John Berger

happy reading :)

boycritter

WAUGHGHGHG. MENTORS

boycritter

white guys never say they're losing their marbles anymore its always ngl ts pmo fr vro

fleetadmiralsengoku234

What, are you losing your marbles about this?

boycritter

i’m not white

cellmates

theres another guy in my dorm who started T the same month i did and whenever we see each other we have an unspoken ritual of saying “hey” in the deepest we can get our voice to be and every time it’s deeper and we just keep walking in our respective directions & smiling its a good experience

mystereoheart

This is it, the purest post on this whole website

avocant

okay so I'm having a debate with my flatmates

are these all different things and if so what do you call them