Many of these links have been tweeted in the past, but here I can tag and categorise them for future reference. I hope you find some of them interesting too. Please feel free to discuss in comments or on Twitter. Some of the links to PDFs disappear quickly so download them promptly.
Susan Sontag’s dazzling essay, Against Interpretation [PDF]
Susan Sontag’s Notes on “Camp” [PDF]
Brian Dillon - Le Goût des Autres: Laughter, Tears and Rage - “Since the 17th century, taste has been integral to the discourse surrounding aesthetics, class, culture, gender and sexuality. Has it become an anachronism?”
From Was Jack Kerouac a Punjabi? – Survivability, Vulnerability, Affect
Nietzsche’s library [PDF]: “traces not only the books which Nietzsche read throughout his life, but also lectures he attended as well as professorial work he was engaged in, the music he listened to and composed, and, finally, denotes when and where he wrote his philosophical works. Its primary concern though is with the books Nietzsche was reading; the most abundant references are to those books.”
Friedrich Nietzsche’s The Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music (translated by Ian Johnston) [PDF]
Joan Didion interviewed by Sheila Heti. “With writing, I don’t think it’s performing a character, really, if the character you’re performing is yourself. I don’t see that as playing a role. It’s just appearing in public.”
Albert Camus’s The Stranger (translated by Stuart Gilbert) [PDF]
From Larval Subjects blog, How to Make a Blog
Terry Eagleton’s essay, Capitalism, Modernism and Postmodernism [PDF]
An old favourite essay: Sven Birket’s Reading in a Digital Age “Notes on why the novel and the Internet are opposites, and why the latter both undermines the former and makes it more necessary.”
Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier [PDF]
