The meaning of this GIF changes when you realize that Kermit is in the Black Lodge with Dale Cooper … pic.twitter.com/HNEyuapqyj
— Weird Studies (@weirdstudies) March 6, 2019
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“There is something crazy about a culture in which the value of beauty becomes controversial. It is crazy not to celebrate whatever reconciles us to life. The craziness suggests either stubborn grievance … or benumbed insensibility. The two terms may be one. (Peter Schjeldahl)
— Weird Studies (@weirdstudies) January 2, 2019
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The belief that a great artist must also be a great (or at least acceptable) person is an infuriatingly stubborn fallacy. My go-to example is composer Richard Wagner, but MMA fighter Jon Jones works just as well. Yes, I know, this isn’t a fight-fan account, but hear me out.
— Weird Studies (@weirdstudies) December 30, 2018
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Bruno Latour’s Borgesian micro-story at the beginning of _On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods_ says almost everything there is to say about the insane mental script running in our modern heads. pic.twitter.com/VAC91bAhh9
— Weird Studies (@weirdstudies) July 9, 2018
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