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 AvenueSee 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, 1955We'll be reading pages 198–223 next week.
Have you read Infinite Jest, or have you tried to read Infinite Jest? Let us know: anchor.fm/small-clever-rooms/message
Brianna's website: briannakratz.com - Brianna's Infinite Jest timeline
Vvinni's paintings: Instagram.com/CardboardVv
Andrew's videos: agingerich.com