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Hyperglobalist @hyperglobalist.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

My Amazon About You page. It is nothing more than a count of things I have bought. The only thing they tried inferring they got wrong.

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Hyperglobalist @hyperglobalist.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

News from Brazil is extremely depressing. Hence decided to watch this erotic noir movie set in a sex motel by the great Brazilian director Karim Aïnouz. Highly recommended. Here is the BFI review. www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-so...

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Hyperglobalist @hyperglobalist.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I just love the compact form factor of these London Mathematical Society texts.

Cover of a book, Semigroups of Linear Operators by David Applebaum.

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Hyperglobalist @hyperglobalist.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Picked this up for some light enjoyable reading. It is that but also pleasantly surprised to discover a nuanced portrayal of characters, sexual relations, class antagonisms. I don't know why, but I was expecting something a bit more caricatural. This was the last novel Kingsley Amis wrote and

Cover of a book called The Biographer's Moustache by Kingsley Amis.

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Hyperglobalist @hyperglobalist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Didn't think this historical drama adapted from a 17th century novel by Madame de La Fayette, directed by Bertrand Tavernier would be quite to my liking, but against all expectations I thought it was a rather well made film. Featured below are the 4 main characters. I tend to find Tavernier too

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Hyperglobalist @hyperglobalist.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Watching a program on Thélyson Orélien and most of the panelists seem skeptical regarding the use of AI. The only one who is certain that AI must have been used is this smooth-faced and from his manner of arguing, smooth-brained as well, young fascist.

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Hyperglobalist @hyperglobalist.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Much brouhaha mostly by the right, but reported on by all French media, about the alleged use of AI for 👇 this first novel by Haitian poet Thélyson Orélien. The allegations were first made by a small anonymous account on X. Curious, I bought the ebook, and 5% in, it draws a harrowing portrait of

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Hyperglobalist @hyperglobalist.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Rarely happens to me. Two great wines on two consecutive evenings.

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Hyperglobalist @hyperglobalist.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Shortbread chocolate cookie, Turkish figs and Sicilian amaro.

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Hyperglobalist @hyperglobalist.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

While it became more explicit in his later films the comic element was always there with Claude Chabrol undercutting (deconstructing) the thriller garb of the films. L'enfer, which I remembered as a harrowing film of paranoid jealousy, made me laugh at the husband's antics on repeat viewing.

Emmanuel Béart and François Cluzot in a car in the film L'enfer.

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Hyperglobalist @hyperglobalist.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Dogtooth directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. I quite liked the temporally rhythmic quality of the editing, whose patterns felt new to me.

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Hyperglobalist @hyperglobalist.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

So glad that ndp decided to publish a bilingual version. Though I have enjoyed and read most of the poems in the translated English, the few that I have read in Spanish as well have struck more of a chord with me because of how beautiful they sound in that language.

Un poema es como una puerta
por la que nunca hemos pasado.

Una puerta que da a un cuarto
cuya forma no hemos imaginado.

Un laberinto de puertas
que dan a un infinito
que nunca hemos soñado

A poem is like a door
we've never passed through.

A door that opens onto a room
whose shape we've never imagined.

A labyrinth of doors
that open onto an infinity
we've never dreamed of

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Hyperglobalist @hyperglobalist.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

The world (duchy of Württemberg) in 1770 that Hegel was born into included inter alia "human trafficking in the form of selling local children into foreign wars."

Meanwhile, Protestantism was the national religion, and the Church exercised enormous power over every area of life. People had to watch their words, overshadowed by this overwhelming and "inquisitorial" authority. Cautious reforms and Enlightenment efforts battled the Fürstenwillkür, a rigid secret police system; rising tax burdens for the people; pomp and extravagance at court; and human trafficking in the form of selling local children into foreign wars.

Cover of a book Hegel: The Philosopher of Freedom by Klaus Vieweg.

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Hyperglobalist @hyperglobalist.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

between the East and the West. Erudite and charming, he had a wide circle of friends which included American intellectuals, Romain Rolland and Nehru. 👇 is an excerpt from a letter that Nehru wrote to Mukerji which shows that despite their very different backgrounds they were identically situated in

Nehru, in a long, revealing letter to Mukerji, once confessed that he was not really comfortable in India. “Unfortunately, I am a mongrel breed,” he confided, “neither wholly Eastern nor Western with the result that I seldom feel at home with anybody. The modern western-educated intelligentsia in India usually bore me to extinction. The poor peasant and the worker are loveable enough but what the devil is one to do with them? I can't talk to them for long.” Affectionately, Nehru concluded his confession to Mukerji, “so now I hope you will appreciate why I welcome your letters and will write to you frequently.” Nehru once flirted with the idea of having Mukerji write his biography.⁸⁰

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Hyperglobalist @hyperglobalist.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

my reach. This autobiography by the first Indian author to have achieved any kind of literary fame in the US was also part of the sale. He appears to have been quite prolific, churning out non-fiction books about Indian politics, religion, as well as translating the Bhagavad Gita. In addition he

Cover of a book called Caste and Outcast by Dhan Gopal Mukerji

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Hyperglobalist @hyperglobalist.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

From the Stanford sale. Books by Nietzsche, and on Kant & Derrida. Some of these, especially interpreting Derrida's work from the perspective of Analytic philosophy is beyond my grasp. I would not attempt it till I have acquired some rudimentary grasp of the subjects, and even then it might exceed

Shows spines of following books.

The Birth of Tragedy / Unpublished Basel Writings (Winter 1869/70 - Fall 1873) by Nietzsche.

Beyond Good and Evil / On the Genealogy of Morality by Nietzsche

Caste and Outcast by Dhan Gopal Mukerji

Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime by Jean-François Lyotard

Speech Acts in Literature by J. Hillis Miller

Taking on the Tradition: Jacques Derrida and the Legacies of Deconstruction by Michael Naas

Deconstruction as Analytic Philosophy by Samuel C. Wheeler III

The Honor of Thinking: Critique, Theory, Philosophy by Rodolphe Gasché

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Hyperglobalist @hyperglobalist.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Didn't happen to the Chinese, who at crucial points had productivity breakthroughs that enabled them to bear the cost of their empire, until in the late Qing, when population growth outpaced the system's capacity. 👇

Cover of a book called China's Last Empire: The Great Qing, written by William T. Rowe.

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Hyperglobalist @hyperglobalist.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Arrived today. This goes on the pile.

Cover of a book Nietzsche and Metaphor by Sarah Kofman, translated by Duncan Large.

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Hyperglobalist @hyperglobalist.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Had to get the book accompanying the exhibition.

Shows spine of a book called Divine Color: Hindu Prints from Modern Bengal, published by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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Hyperglobalist @hyperglobalist.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

"Every living thing needs to be surrounded by an atmosphere, a mysterious circle of mist: if one robs it of this veil, if one condemns a religion, an art, a genius to orbit as a star without an atmosphere; then one should not wonder about its becoming witered, hard, and barren."

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Hyperglobalist @hyperglobalist.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Speaking of phenomenology of space here is Tanizaki on the aesthetics of Japanese home and objects and consciousness and the mutually constituting nature of them. The title refers to the sensorial charms of dimly lighted, spotlessly clean traditional Japanese toilets.

Cover of a pamphlet The Glow of the Dim by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki.

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Hyperglobalist @hyperglobalist.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Finished the Shapiro book. Every new kind of reading creates its own momentum. Hence, following up with this pile, some of which have been long-neglected, after a few desultory attempts made previously. Maybe too ambitious. Hence the resolve-boosting coffee.

Shows a pile of 4 books and a coffee cup next to them. The books are as follows.
1. The Culmination: Heidegger, German Idealism, and the Fate of Philosophy by Robert Pippin.
2. Between Kant and Hegel: Lectures on German Idealism by Dieter Henrich.
3. Nietzsche Pursued: Toward a Philosophy for the Future by Richard Schacht.
4. The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger, edited by Charles B. Guignon.

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Hyperglobalist @hyperglobalist.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Flitting among these four history books all very illuminating pour moi.

Cover of a book called Wacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State by Anna Grzymała-Busse.

Cover of a book called China's Last Empire: The Great Qing by William T. ROWE

Cover of a book called Longing for the Lost Caliphate: A Transregional History by Mona Hassan.

Cover of a book called Reordering the World: Essays on Liberalism and Empire by Duncan Bell

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Hyperglobalist @hyperglobalist.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

The notes in the first image are from the book in the next image. They describe some of the content of Kautilya's Arthasastra which is an ancient Indian text for statecraft. Check out the bits about shampooers, spies, and sex workers. This text predates Machiavelli's by more than a 1000 years.

Here is the extracted text from the image:

11 See Kautilya, Arthasastra. The totalitarian state outlined in the text proposes a strong welfare and safety network for the people, including surprisingly liberal attitudes toward women in relation to divorce, widow remarriage, and good maintenance and property rights.

12 See Kautilya, Arthasastra, book 1, especially chapter 10, “Ascertaining by Temptations Purity or Impurity in the Characters of Ministers”; and chapters 11 and 12 on “The Institution of Spies.” The range of spies is breathtaking, from the sauce maker, the shampooer, the doorman, or the domestic servant within the palace walls to widows, mendicants, hunchbacks, and actors in public places and abroad. In book 2, chapter 25, on the duties of the superintendent of liquor, Kautilya specifies that the state shall allow only men of well-known character to take home wine in small doses. The rest have to drink in public houses, closely monitored by spies while they inebriate themselves. Book 2, chapter 27, also makes it clear that the king owns and leases out all sex workers. They and entertainers always have to be on duty for state-assigned tasks of espionage, assassination, or deluding foreign spies. Kautilya intermittently provides immensely detailed lists of suspicious markers, psychological or psychosomatic, for government agents to track, including ulcers and fatigue from a long journey, people in a hurry to get boils or wounds cured, or even people roaming with broken garlands or footwear. See also book 4, chapter 4, and the entirety of book 5. The prescriptions for the control of the economy are equally meticulous and totalitarian.

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Hyperglobalist @hyperglobalist.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Just luminous. Setsuko Hara and Chishu Ryu.

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Hyperglobalist @hyperglobalist.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Rewatching Tokyo Twilight. The filmmaking is so precise in its motifs. Almost rhythmic.

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Hyperglobalist @hyperglobalist.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Haven't been reading in my kitchen for a while.

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Hyperglobalist @hyperglobalist.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I was reading Denise Levertov's poems published by NDP when I suddenly experienced an upsurge of affection for the publishing house that I ordered these two novels somewhat randomly. They were the first two entries on a list on the backapges of the Levertov book.

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Hyperglobalist @hyperglobalist.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Gifts received. Spent sometime orientating myself to Arthur Sze, something I have to do with every poet I read. Staying up late to sample the essays of Tanizuki, Walter Benjamin and Orwell.

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Hyperglobalist @hyperglobalist.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Montagu O'Reilly (real name, Wayne Andrews) was an American surrealist and the author of the first book to be published by New Directions Publishings. This is a bound version of a periodical called Direction - also issued by NDP - each issue of which was devoted to works by a single author.

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Hyperglobalist @hyperglobalist.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The YouTube thumbnail from French public television on a news report about their upper house of parliament denouncing the manosphere.

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Hyperglobalist @hyperglobalist.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Adorno on Proust seems to be just solipsistic whining. Pilloried for crossing disciplinary boundaries? That was Adorno.

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Hyperglobalist @hyperglobalist.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Reading this novel recently in which the narrator bemoans the fact that the Ottoman Turks had looked down upon all the magic, enchantment, and alchemy that marked the Christian world. Of course, this was because they were not "clever and imaginative" enough to appreciate these dark arts.

Cover of the novel The Towers of Trebizond by Rose Macaulay.

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Hyperglobalist @hyperglobalist.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Never say drunken angry visionary - James Tate.

Cover of a book of selected poems of James Tate.

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Hyperglobalist @hyperglobalist.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Received today, a book on spherical trigonometry meant for the general audience from the Princeton sale. Learnt from the preface David Foster Wallace had invented "cubular trigonometry" for his novel "Infinite Jest".

Cover of a book called "Heavenly Mathematics: The Forgotten Art of Spherical Trigonometry" by Glen Van Brummelen.

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