Good Looking People in Small Clever Rooms That Utilize Every Centimeter of Available Space

Pages 172–198: At night we'll feast together

Listen Later

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 Avenue
    • See 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, 1955

      • We'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

      ...more
      View all episodesView all episodes
      Download on the App Store
      Good Looking People in Small Clever Rooms That Utilize Every Centimeter of Available SpaceBy Good Looking People