composers tended to move into avant-garde coteries

classical music has acquired a rebarbative or even resistant place within the neoliberal phase of capitalism

the parvenu and snobbish Verdurin salon

the culture of the late ’90s was a congeries of tricks for avoiding politics

But writing an antibranding jeremiad draws one into the logic of branding as surely as founding a “socially responsible business” involves one in profit and loss

this anticommodification style would lend itself to a commodification that offered an anticommodification frisson among its features

the fellowship that took me into the think-tank room that I now style, in hindsight, the Hegemony Clinic

convey his taciturn, laconic character

Wallace leaves the guy there, crucified in the shape of an X, a chiasmus, a portrait of profound stuckness

The consistency of his architectural mien is admirable