Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

89

David Foster Wallace and Music: The Grunge Writer and the Hitherto Criminally Overlooked Importance of Signifying Rappers

1
terms
1
notes

McMahon, T. (2017). David Foster Wallace and Music: The Grunge Writer and the Hitherto Criminally Overlooked Importance of Signifying Rappers. In Pire, B. David Foster Wallace: Presences of the Other. Sussex Academic Press, pp. 89-100

93

A recurrent situationist theme: the idea of 'the vacation' as a sort of loop of alienation and domination, a symbol of the false promises of modern life, a notion that as CLUB MED--A CHEAP HOLIDAY IN OTHER PEOPLE'S MISERY would become graffiti in Paris in May 1968, and then, it seemed, turned into 'Holidays in the Sun' (21).

from Lipstick Traces. Holidays in the Sun is a Sex Pistols song (the first line is the subject)

—p.93 by Greil Marcus 6 years, 5 months ago

A recurrent situationist theme: the idea of 'the vacation' as a sort of loop of alienation and domination, a symbol of the false promises of modern life, a notion that as CLUB MED--A CHEAP HOLIDAY IN OTHER PEOPLE'S MISERY would become graffiti in Paris in May 1968, and then, it seemed, turned into 'Holidays in the Sun' (21).

from Lipstick Traces. Holidays in the Sun is a Sex Pistols song (the first line is the subject)

—p.93 by Greil Marcus 6 years, 5 months ago

(noun) an intervening space

94

These interstices where Wallace scholarship can find something like the new voices we are being told it so desperately needs?

—p.94 by Tony McMahon
notable
6 years, 5 months ago

These interstices where Wallace scholarship can find something like the new voices we are being told it so desperately needs?

—p.94 by Tony McMahon
notable
6 years, 5 months ago