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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

I first heard about it when I read 1973 ornithologist Tinbergen’s Nobel lecture. A large portion of his Nobel lecture was on it. He was a student of the technique and credited it with helping his family, stating it was a method with "immense potential" for improving physical and mental health.!!!

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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 · 20/10/2025

I once tried doing it with someone's guidance. Very difficult.

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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

Thanks for reading it and for telling me.

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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

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Emanuel Derman @emanuelderman.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

It’s true, but I suspect Bolton knew what he was getting into when he started working for Trump. As did most of them.

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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 · 09/07/2025

It made me go back and listen to “Dixie flyer“ in “land of dreams“ from 1988, which I really liked. Not sarcastic, just very touching.

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

I like that line you quoted, it struck me too What about Kempton?

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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

You must be reading me wrong or I am expressing myself wrong. I have no distaste for the English at all.. Quite the reverse.

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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

Never heard about that, will check it out thanks. I agree, those things are gross

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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