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Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Typo dammit: don’t give anyone advice unless they ask you for it. It’s the right thing to do.

Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

The first rule of my club is don’t give advice unless you rest for it

Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

@braddelong.bsky.social In your history of societal evolution and language, how soon did lying and later total BS artistry appear?

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Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Zip it www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... I found this article really interesting and said things I believe in ‘the function of the artist is to make actual the spiritual.’ Anarchism meant that ‘anybody is able to make anything, particularly a work of art, spontaneously or directly – a primo.’

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Hal Foster · Zip it: Barnett Newman’s Anarchism

For Barnett Newman, what was required was a new kind of painting produced ‘as if painting never existed before’, a...

Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

"In Elevated Landscapes, Dave Mandl rides every stretch of elevated subway in Brooklyn, taking photos through the train windows regardless of dirt, scratches, or grease." Beautiful book of photos by my friend @dmandl.bsky.social roman-nvmerals.myshopify.com/products/vol...

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VOL. CDXL - 'Elevated Landscapes' by Dave Mandl - Presale

VOL. CDXL—MMXXVI 'Elevated Landscapes' by Dave Mandl In Elevated Landscapes, Dave Mandl rides every stretch of elevated subway in Brooklyn, taking photos through the train windows regardless of dirt, ...

Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

"Doctorow’s detailed anatomy of enshittification, his comprehensive account of the sheer inventiveness of Facebook and the others, which makes 19th- or 20th-century robber barons seem tame by comparison." lareviewofbooks.org/article/gian...

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Giant Platforms of Shit | Los Angeles Review of Books

Dave Mandl catches a whiff of Cory Doctorow’s anatomy of platform “enshittification.”

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Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Going to see Mastermind tonight. What tipped me into it was @FT review which mentions that he tries to steal four Arthur Dove paintings. First American abstract painter, I always liked him.

Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

More and more people I know seem to have trouble understanding even slight subtleties in text, text messages, articles, emails.

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Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Ms. Leddy said she was focused on continuing in the world of social media influencers. “It’s my passion,” she said. “I actually do love being on camera, and I love talking to people, and I love sharing my life.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/s...

A Glimpse Into the Extravagant Lives of New York City Teens

Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Claudia Cardinale, Actress Who Was ‘Italy’s Girlfriend,’ Is Dead at 87 "You can learn beauty. Visconti taught me how to be beautiful. He taught me to cultivate mystery, without which, he said, there cannot be real beauty.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/m...

Claudia Cardinale, Actress Who Was ‘Italy’s Girlfriend,’ Is Dead at 87

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Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Amazon has a special on my book and you can, if you so wish, get it really cheap, for about $9.00, Kindle or hardcover www.amazon.com/Brief-Hours-...

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Brief Hours and Weeks: My Life as a Capetonian

Amazon.com: Brief Hours and Weeks: My Life as a Capetonian: 9781068649103: Derman, Emanuel: Books

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Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

If price was restraining you from enjoying my new reminiscence of youth, loves, & mores in immigrant Cape Town, adorned with 100 color photos, it’s now $17.50 on Amazon. www.amazon.com/Brief-Hours-... J M Coetzee, Nobel Laureate, says: “The chapter on the lonely Mrs Gold is a triumph.”

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Brief Hours and Weeks: My Life as a Capetonian

Amazon.com: Brief Hours and Weeks: My Life as a Capetonian: 9781068649103: Derman, Emanuel: Books

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Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Terence Stamp, face of 60s British cinema and star of The Limey and Superman, dies at 87

Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

“Now, instead of 100 bottles of olive oil, you have maybe four choices, including one that’s organic and one that’s imported from Italy” ✔️✔️✔️ www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/b...

Aldi’s Passionate, Cultlike Following Fuels Its Rapid Expansion Plans

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Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

At MOMA, Jack Whitten’s exhibition. Here are his notes to himself in 1972 about what to avoid in making his abstract art.

Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Terrifically perceptive article by David Denby about the NY intellectuals of the 30s 40s 50s 60s from Howe Trilling Mccarthy Sontag … www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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David Denby · Colony, Aviary and Zoo: New York Intellectuals

The house style of the early Partisan Review was hard-headed, truculent, dismissive of religiosity (‘mystification...

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Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Native-born Americans! See what it’s like to grow up in an immigrant family: “Brief Hours and Weeks awakes many memories of Cape Town, as it was half a century ago. The chapter on the lonely Mrs Gold is a triumph." - J M Coetzee, Nobel Laureate www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1068...

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Brief Hours and Weeks: My Life as a Capetonian

Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

The unconscious has neither a clock or a calendar

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Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

South Africa Built a Medical Research Powerhouse. Trump Cuts Have Demolished It. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/h...

South Africa Built a Medical Research Powerhouse. Trump Cuts Have Demolished It.

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Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

"While missiles were flying in the Middle East and Minnesota police were searching for an armed political assassin, the US president celebrated his 79th birthday by saluting a bunch of military vehicles and thousands of servicemen and women dressed in historical costumes." -- swampnotes

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/06/2025

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Rand Paul: "I've never liked the idea of the parade. I grew up in the '70s and '80s, and the only parades I can remember are Soviet parades for the most part or North Korean parades. The parades I remember from our history were different...we never glorified weapons so much...then there is the cost"

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Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Die, (Russian) imperialist dogs.

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Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

What matters isn't whether something is conscious or not, but whether you hold it responsible in some way for its actions.

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Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

What fascinated me about English was what I later recognized as its hybrid etymology: blunt Anglo-Saxon concreteness, sleek Norman French urbanity, and polysyllabic Greco-Roman abstraction. —- Camille Paglia in the introduction to Break Blow Burn

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Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

"almost always, the cost of doing something is so much less important than the thing that’s getting done" open.substack.com/pub/backofmi...

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department of what now?

voices from the beehive, part 4

Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

On album art, Hipgnosis, and Fairport Convention. What a great cover By old friend @dmandl.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/whyisthi...

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The Trees (The Band) Edition

On album art, Hipgnosis, and Fairport Convention.

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Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

The Mystery of the Blue Glove by Franklin W Dixon

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Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

I saw three Muratova films last week @filmlinc.bsky.social Esp liked The Tuner and Two in One. From an interview with Muratova: ‘Do you know the writer Sorokin? He was once asked: "Why do you write?" "Otherwise, I am scared," he answered. That's exactly how it is: otherwise I am scared of life.’

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Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

“Prix fixe” is French for “when you finish your meal you will have paid twice the listed price”

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Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Getting near the end of Robinson Crusoe. From the versions I heard as a kid, I thought he stumbled across Friday rather than rescued him. The right way to read it is to drink a tot of rum at the same time, which I do

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Dave Mandl @dmandl.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Tonight at 7 p.m. ET, it's these week's excitement-packed installment of my radio show, "It's Complicated" (an hour of prog and prog-adjacent music). Listen at wfmu.org or on the heaven-sent @wfmu.bsky.social app.

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Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

I am halfway thru Robinson Crusoe and I realize that Kafka's short story The Burrow en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bur... was a major influence on Defoe. The creature and Robinson both live in constant fear of attack, try to make themselves secure, are obsessed with signs of another life

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The Burrow (short story) - Wikipedia

Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

You can’t really ignite a spark. A spark is the thing that ignites something else. OK, I’m not sending my kids to this school.