The Universal and the Vacuous Events

Caveat Vendor

Universities, audience capture, and bullshit; Beowulf, Kendrick Lamar

Jan 2 • Rafe Meager

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September 2025

You Love America

A covenant with death, and an agreement with hell; Yale, Du Bois, Bagehot, Pynchon, Fitzgerald

Sep 23, 2025 • Rafe Meager

38

24

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July 2025

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Birth and death, the interregnum; Ayşegül Savaş, Shakespeare, Twombly, Lacan; zen buddhism, the body, the erotic, sacrifice, names, being transgender…

Jul 20, 2025 • Rafe Meager

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May 2025

A guess from a guess

Translation, research, conjecture; Linear Elamite, Rumi; the position of Jupiter drives the invention of agriculture; an economist does something good

May 21, 2025 • Rafe Meager

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23

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March 2025

You’re not getting Boy with Apple you god damn little fruit!

The Wes Anderson Essay

Mar 23, 2025 • Rafe Meager

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23

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January 2025

Taking Our Chances

This one's for the academy, I guess

Jan 18, 2025 • Rafe Meager

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34

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December 2024

Huck & Jim

at the art institute of Chicago

Dec 3, 2024 • Rafe Meager

35

15

11

October 2024

The red shoes are never tired

Ambition, community, theft and satiety

Oct 25, 2024 • Rafe Meager

24

13

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August 2024

Against Forgiveness

In favour of guilt; above, there is no shuffling

Aug 19, 2024 • Rafe Meager

89

14

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July 2024

List of things the book has outlasted

And my thoughts on being lonely

Jul 3, 2024 • Rafe Meager

32

16

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June 2024

Tormented by an Urn

Teaching, learning, love and fear; the aesthetic sensibility of math

Jun 4, 2024 • Rafe Meager

45

19

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May 2024

Elio Forever

Love and memory, life as a ruined peach

May 1, 2024 • Rafe Meager

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