Welcome back for our 8th week of Infinite Jest! We're up to page 198.
Topics of discussion:
- We're sad for Hal
- "Feral Prodigy"
- Mario Incandenza's cinematic influences
- Enfield Tennis Academy's academic curricular model
- "Bafflegab"
- The incident with the fork
- President Limbaugh?
- Formication
- "Unabashed bashing at its most fascist"
- Madame Psychosis
- The Union of the Hideously and Improbably Deformed
- Medusa vs. Odalisque
- Depressing books
- The mimetic architecture of the M.I.T. Student Union
- The buildings on Commonwealth Avenue
See also:
- Gus Van Sant, The Discipline of D. E., 1978
- Hito Steyerl, How Not to be Seen: A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File, 2013
- Guy Maddin, The Saddest Music in the World [trailer], 2003; My Winnipeg [trailer], 2008
- Jules Lefebvre, Odalisque, 1874
- M.I.T.'s Stratton Student Center, 1968
- The Longaberger Basket Company, 1997
- Eero Saarinen's M.I.T. Chapel, 1955
We'll be reading pages 198–223 next week.
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