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the fear of being ordinary

His anguish, he wrote, had multiple sources, from a fear of fame to a fear of failure. Behind the ordinary fears lurked the fear of being ordinary.

—p.144 Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story: A Life of David Foster Wallace Chapter 5 (135) by D.T. Max

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the highest point in the development of something; culmination or climax

The apotheosis of this technique is "The Depressed Person."

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—p.274 Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: The Difficult Gifts of David Foster Wallace (255) by Zadie Smith

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scaffolding by Helena Fitzgerald - Griefbacon

Alberto Toscano: Solidarity and Political Work by Alberto Toscano - Historical Materialism

The Illegitimacy of the Ruling Class by Thea Riofrancos - In These Times

The Disruptors: An Interview with J. W. Mason by J. W. Mason - Jacobin

The Essentials of Socialist Writing by Vijay Prashad - Jacobin

Chasing Utopias by Sam Gindin - Jacobin

How to Say You Maybe Don’t Want to Be Married Anymore Sarah Bregel takes a close look at her marriage after two kids, and wonders, how hard is too hard? - Longreads

Citizen Thiel by Guy Patrick Cunningham - Los Angeles Review of Books

Me and My Shadow by Jane Tompkins - MISC

An interview with Thomas Piketty LSE International Inequalities Institute Working Paper 1 - Medium

Everything Is Embarrassing: On Loving The National by Helena Fitzgerald - NYLON

Rhetoric, Responsibility, & the Problem of the Political: Some thoughts after reading Andrew O’Hagan on Grenfell Tower - New Socialist

What has happened to Britain's ruling class? by Richard Seymour - Patreon

Plenty in an age of scarcity by Richard Seymour - Patreon

When humanity doesn't rock by Richard Seymour - Patreon

Code of Conduct by Daniel Joseph - Real Life

Two-Faced by Daniel Joseph - Real Life

The Dangerous Myth of 'Taxpayer Money' Raúl Carrillo & Jesse Myerson - Splinter

I miss you by Shady Sands - Team Liquid

Ready Player One Finds The Bleak Limits Of Nostalgia Jeb Lund - The Concourse

The Corporation Does Not Always Have To Win Albert Burneko - The Concourse

The ungrateful refugee: ‘We have no debt to repay’ by Dina Nayeri - The Guardian

Accelerationism: how a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in by Andy Beckett - The Guardian

Hurt People by Bobby London - The New Inquiry

Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child by Mal Ahern, Moira Weigel - The New Inquiry

Super Position by David Graeber - The New Inquiry

The first step is admitting that you’re a worker by Jasmine Chorley Foster - The New Pretender

Dear Fuck-Up: How do you live when everything sucks? by Brandy Jensen - The Outline

There is no such thing as being ready for love by Helena Fitzgerald - The Outline

You Only Run For the Border When You See the Whole City Running As Well by Vijay Prashad - Tricontinental

What Would the Frankfurt School Think of Social Media? by Kumars Salehi - Verso Blog

Digital Proudhonism by Gavin C Mueller - b2o

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Accelerate: Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics by Alex Williams, Nick Srnicek - #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader

Reflections on the Manifesto by Antonio Negri - #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader

E Unibus Pluram by David Foster Wallace - A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

Getting Away From Already Pretty Much Being Away From It All by David Foster Wallace - A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

David Lynch Keeps His Head by David Foster Wallace - A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

Tennis Player Michael Joyce's Professional Artistry as a Paradigm of Certain Stuff about Choice, Freedom, Discipline, Joy, Grotesquerie, and Human Completeness by David Foster Wallace - A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by David Foster Wallace - A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

The death of tragedy by Susan Sontag - Against Interpretation and Other Essays

The Cleric of Treason by George Steiner - At the New Yorker

From The House of the Dead by George Steiner - At the New Yorker

Killing Time by George Steiner - At the New Yorker

Ancient Glittering Eyes by George Steiner - At the New Yorker

The Tongues of Man by George Steiner - At the New Yorker

Lifehacker: Tarek Loubani on 3D-Printing in Gaza by Logic Magazine - Bodies (Logic #8)

Federer Both Flesh and Not by David Foster Wallace - Both Flesh and Not: Essays

Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Young by David Foster Wallace - Both Flesh and Not: Essays

The Empty Plenum: David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Foster Wallace - Both Flesh and Not: Essays

The Nature of the Fun by David Foster Wallace - Both Flesh and Not: Essays

Just Asking by David Foster Wallace - Both Flesh and Not: Essays

Disrupt the Citizen by n+1 - Bottoms Up

Triumph of the Shill by Corey Robin - Bottoms Up

Fairouz in Exile Life after Syria - Bottoms Up

On Literary Studies by Marco Roth - Bottoms Up

A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life by David Foster Wallace - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Forever Overhead by David Foster Wallace - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

The Depressed Person by David Foster Wallace - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Octet by David Foster Wallace - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Adult World (I) by David Foster Wallace - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Church Not Made With Hands by David Foster Wallace - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

On His Deathbed, Holding Your Hand, The Acclaimed New Young Off-Broadway Playwright's Father Begs a Boon by David Foster Wallace - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism by Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

What if you held a protest and everyone came? by Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

October 6, 1979: 'Don't let yourself get attached to anything' by Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

All that is solid melts into PR: Market Stalinism and bureaucratic anti-production by Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

'...if you can watch the overlap of one reality with another': capitalist realism as dreamwork and memory disorder by Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

Marxist Supernanny by Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

Management-By-Stress by Mike Parker - Catalyst Vol. 1 No. 2

The New "Culture of Poverty" by Chris Maisano - Catalyst Vol. 1 No. 2

The Workers Have No Europe by Cédric Durand - Catalyst Vol. 1 No. 4

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scaffolding

by Helena Fitzgerald - Griefbacon

Alberto Toscano: Solidarity and Political Work

by Alberto Toscano - Historical Materialism

The Illegitimacy of the Ruling Class

by Thea Riofrancos - In These Times

The Disruptors: An Interview with J. W. Mason

by J. W. Mason - Jacobin

The Essentials of Socialist Writing

by Vijay Prashad - Jacobin

Chasing Utopias

by Sam Gindin - Jacobin

How to Say You Maybe Don’t Want to Be Married Anymore

Sarah Bregel takes a close look at her marriage after two kids, and wonders, how hard is too hard? - Longreads

Citizen Thiel

by Guy Patrick Cunningham - Los Angeles Review of Books

Me and My Shadow

by Jane Tompkins - MISC

An interview with Thomas Piketty

LSE International Inequalities Institute Working Paper 1 - Medium

Everything Is Embarrassing: On Loving The National

by Helena Fitzgerald - NYLON

Rhetoric, Responsibility, & the Problem of the Political: Some thoughts after reading Andrew O’Hagan on Grenfell Tower

- New Socialist

What has happened to Britain's ruling class?

by Richard Seymour - Patreon

Plenty in an age of scarcity

by Richard Seymour - Patreon

When humanity doesn't rock

by Richard Seymour - Patreon

Code of Conduct

by Daniel Joseph - Real Life

Two-Faced

by Daniel Joseph - Real Life

The Dangerous Myth of 'Taxpayer Money'

Raúl Carrillo & Jesse Myerson - Splinter

I miss you

by Shady Sands - Team Liquid

Ready Player One Finds The Bleak Limits Of Nostalgia

Jeb Lund - The Concourse

The Corporation Does Not Always Have To Win

Albert Burneko - The Concourse

The ungrateful refugee: ‘We have no debt to repay’

by Dina Nayeri - The Guardian

Accelerationism: how a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in

by Andy Beckett - The Guardian

Hurt People

by Bobby London - The New Inquiry

Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child

by Mal Ahern, Moira Weigel - The New Inquiry

Super Position

by David Graeber - The New Inquiry

The first step is admitting that you’re a worker

by Jasmine Chorley Foster - The New Pretender

Dear Fuck-Up: How do you live when everything sucks?

by Brandy Jensen - The Outline

There is no such thing as being ready for love

by Helena Fitzgerald - The Outline

You Only Run For the Border When You See the Whole City Running As Well

by Vijay Prashad - Tricontinental

What Would the Frankfurt School Think of Social Media?

by Kumars Salehi - Verso Blog

Digital Proudhonism

by Gavin C Mueller - b2o

Accelerate: Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics

by Alex Williams, Nick Srnicek - #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader

Reflections on the Manifesto

by Antonio Negri - #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader

E Unibus Pluram

by David Foster Wallace - A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

Getting Away From Already Pretty Much Being Away From It All

by David Foster Wallace - A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

David Lynch Keeps His Head

by David Foster Wallace - A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

Tennis Player Michael Joyce's Professional Artistry as a Paradigm of Certain Stuff about Choice, Freedom, Discipline, Joy, Grotesquerie, and Human Completeness

by David Foster Wallace - A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again

by David Foster Wallace - A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

The death of tragedy

by Susan Sontag - Against Interpretation and Other Essays

The Cleric of Treason

by George Steiner - At the New Yorker

From The House of the Dead

by George Steiner - At the New Yorker

Killing Time

by George Steiner - At the New Yorker

Ancient Glittering Eyes

by George Steiner - At the New Yorker

The Tongues of Man

by George Steiner - At the New Yorker

Lifehacker: Tarek Loubani on 3D-Printing in Gaza

by Logic Magazine - Bodies (Logic #8)

Federer Both Flesh and Not

by David Foster Wallace - Both Flesh and Not: Essays

Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Young

by David Foster Wallace - Both Flesh and Not: Essays

The Empty Plenum: David Markson's Wittgenstein's Mistress

by David Foster Wallace - Both Flesh and Not: Essays

The Nature of the Fun

by David Foster Wallace - Both Flesh and Not: Essays

Just Asking

by David Foster Wallace - Both Flesh and Not: Essays

Disrupt the Citizen

by n+1 - Bottoms Up

Triumph of the Shill

by Corey Robin - Bottoms Up

Fairouz in Exile

Life after Syria - Bottoms Up

On Literary Studies

by Marco Roth - Bottoms Up

A Radically Condensed History of Postindustrial Life

by David Foster Wallace - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Forever Overhead

by David Foster Wallace - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

The Depressed Person

by David Foster Wallace - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

by David Foster Wallace - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Octet

by David Foster Wallace - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Adult World (I)

by David Foster Wallace - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Church Not Made With Hands

by David Foster Wallace - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

by David Foster Wallace - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

On His Deathbed, Holding Your Hand, The Acclaimed New Young Off-Broadway Playwright's Father Begs a Boon

by David Foster Wallace - Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism

by Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

What if you held a protest and everyone came?

by Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

October 6, 1979: 'Don't let yourself get attached to anything'

by Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

All that is solid melts into PR: Market Stalinism and bureaucratic anti-production

by Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

'...if you can watch the overlap of one reality with another': capitalist realism as dreamwork and memory disorder

by Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

Marxist Supernanny

by Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

Management-By-Stress

by Mike Parker - Catalyst Vol. 1 No. 2

The New "Culture of Poverty"

by Chris Maisano - Catalyst Vol. 1 No. 2

The Workers Have No Europe

by Cédric Durand - Catalyst Vol. 1 No. 4

Socialism for Realists

by Sam Gindin - Catalyst Vol. 2 No. 3

Ideas Without Power

by Aaron Major - Catalyst Vol. 2 No. 3

The Strike as the Ultimate Structure Test

by Jane F. McAlevey - Catalyst Vol. 2 No. 3

Does Basic Income Assume a Can Opener?

by David Calnitsky - Catalyst Vol. 2 No. 3

Rereading Barthes and Nabokov

by Zadie Smith - Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men: The Difficult Gifts of David Foster Wallace

by Zadie Smith - Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays