#oscar schwartz

[exhaled-spirals]

« [My] disinclination to reread the books I treasure alienates me not just from Nabokov, but from a vast pro-rereading discourse espoused by geniuses who regard rereading as the literary activity par excellence. Roland Barthes, for instance, proposed that rereading is necessary if we are to realize the true goal of literature, which, in his view, is to make the reader “no longer a consumer, but a producer of the text.” When we reread, we discover how a text can multiply in its variety and its plurality. Rereading […], Barthes claims, [is] “an operation contrary to the commercial and ideological habits of our society, which would have us ‘throw away’ the story once it has been consumed (‘devoured’).” I’m not so sure.

If we take Barthes’s argument to its limit, we can imagine an ideal literary culture in which there is only one book and a community of avid readers returning to it over and over, unfurling its infinite field of potential in ever-more-elaborate interpretations. […]

[M]aybe the crucial difference between those who read once and those who reread is an attitude toward time, or more precisely, death. The most obvious argument against rereading is, of course, that there just isn’t enough time. It makes no sense to luxuriate in Flaubert’s physiognomic details over and over again, unless you think you’re going to live forever. For those who do not reread, a book is like a little life. When it ends, it dies—or it lives on, imperfectly and embellished, in your memories. […]

Yet, to rereaders, this might sound like nonsense. Why constrain a book to a mortal pulse when it could live forever, revived over and over through repeated readings? Rereading, they might argue, is a miracle, because it brings a book back to life. We see the characters breathe again. We see a world end and then be reborn. We experience the romance and seduction of a scene on repeat, unlike in life, where you do it once and then it’s over. »

— Oscar Schwartz, "Against Rereading", in The Paris Review

[luxe-pauvre]

The story goes like this: there are problems in the world that make the future a scary prospect. Fortunately, though, there are solutions to each of these problems, and the solutions have been formulated by extremely smart, tech-adjacent people. For their ideas to become realities, they merely need to be articulated and spread as widely as possible. And the best way to spread ideas is through stories — hence Gates’s opening anecdote about the barrel. In other words, in the TED episteme, the function of a story isn’t to transform via metaphor or indirection, but to actually manifest a new world. Stories about the future create the future. Or as Chris Anderson, TED’s longtime curator, puts it, “We live in an era where the best way to make a dent on the world… may be simply to stand up and say something.” And yet, TED’s archive is a graveyard of ideas. It is a seemingly endless index of stories about the future — the future of science, the future of the environment, the future of work, the future of love and sex, the future of what it means to be human — that never materialized. By this measure alone, TED, and its attendant ways of thinking, should have been abandoned.

Oscar Schwartz, What Was the TED Talk?

[stargir1z]

what was the ted talk? by oscar schwartz

[jeffalessandrelli]

Rereading is, when you think about it in another light, a basically conservative pursuit: it is what makes canon formation possible, and canons are what keep the base structure of a tradition or a culture intact. This is why Harold Bloom was a rereading fanatic, and why rereading evangelists are always rereading the classics. One time through, for the great books, is not enough. They are “revisiting Proust” or “returning to Moby-Dick” or “dipping back into” Paradise Lost, as the English writer William Hazlitt does in his 1819 essay “On Reading Old Books.” He begins this essay by declaiming: “I hate to read new books” and then suggests that reading them is for women, who “judge of books as they do of fashions or complexions, which are admired only ‘in their newest gloss.’ ” Hazlitt, a man, has “more confidence in the dead than the living.” He returns to Milton, over and over, because he believes that this will inure him against the laziness, vapidness, and shallowness of modern culture.

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In the end, maybe the crucial difference between those who read once and those who reread is an attitude toward time, or more precisely, death. The most obvious argument against rereading is, of course, that there just isn’t enough time. It makes no sense to luxuriate in Flaubert’s physiognomic details over and over again, unless you think you’re going to live forever. For those who do not reread, a book is like a little life. When it ends, it dies—or it lives on, imperfectly and embellished, in your memories. There is a sense of loss in this death, but also pleasure. Or, as the French might put it, la petite mort.

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i like making fun of liam for being short

[nowritingonthewall]

Beacon Theatre, NYC

Credit: Ben Schwartz on X

[benschwartzcinematicuniverse]

NYC takes damn good care of our boy! He was celebrated

💙 Ben’s love of New York is reciprocal 🌃

Ben & Hugh & JJ & Oscar & Will

Ben & Jess & Gil & Eugene

[theworldisyonces]

Beyoncé, Oscars Gold Party (3/10/24).

She is wearing custom AW22/23 Givenchy, Alaia “shield” sunglasses, Lorraine Schwartz jewels, and grillz by Dolly Cohen.

[cat-vase]

Commission by _leanzz_ on instagram

https://instagram.com/_leanzz_?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

[deathbypufferfish]

LOCAL DUMB DUMB IDIOT SHOWS UP TO HIS EXES HOUSE WHILE SHE IS ABOUT TO GO INTO LABOR. IS ONLY SAVED FROM GETTING HIS ASS BEAT BECAUSE HUSBAND DOES NOT WANT TO STRESS OUT WIFE. MORE AT 11.

[madzia5823]

Heidi Klum & Michael Michalsky Hot or Not?

Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Los Angeles 03/04/2018

[midnights-wish]

'The Picture of Dorian Gray', by Oscar Wilde

'The Mind and the Brain', by Jeffrey M. Schwartz & Sharon Begley

'The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 1', by Gabriel Bá & Gerard Way

'La fattoria degli animali' ('Animal Farm'), by George Orwell

'Das Geschenk' ('The Present'/ 'The Gift'), by Sebastian Fitzek

My current physical TBR. I plan to read these next month. 🌙

[dweemeister]

The clerk who is thrown out of work By the boss who is thrown for a loss By the skirt who is doing him dirt The world is a stage The stage is a world of entertainment!

"That's Entertainment!" from The Band Wagon (1953) – music by Arthur Schwartz and lyrics by Howard Dietz; performed by Jack Buchanan, Nanette Fabray, Oscar Levant, and Fred Astaire

As perhaps the most memorable original song in one of MGM's best musicals, "That's Entertainment!" has taken a life of its own as one of the studio's (and Hollywood's) unofficial anthems. Appearing in the opening act of The Band Wagon, a friend of actors gleefully perform together just as they are about to go into rehearsals for a musical comedy.

"That's Entertainment!" was also the title name of three documentaries detailing MGM's history – the first in 1974 (when the studio was on the verge of demolishing its storied soundstages, which are now home to Sony Pictures Studios), the second in in 1976, and the final one in 1994.

[ulrichgebert]

DAS (hingegen) ist Unterhaltung!

[thrashntreasure]

Ep83 Attack of the Jonathans!!! w/ Jonathan X! (Hollywood!)

And the winner is... Us! Because we're joined by our much-beloved past guest, Jonathan X- PLUS we welcome brand-new co-host, Mr JWags! Fresh from the Oscars Nominations, the boys review The Hunchback of Notre Dame, followed by Frenzal Rhomb's Coughing Up a Storm- before a fascination chat about live TV production, Awards ceremonies, televised political conventions, sports, aaaaaaand Lions... Jonathan X - https://www.twitter.com/jxdirector -- https://www.instagram.com/jonathanx.tbhc

Mr J Wags: https://twitter.com/mrjwags -- https://instagram.com/mrjwags The Dohyo - Hot Sumo Talk! https://www.youtube.com/@TheDohyo

[pdiariesmag]

Chris Rock Finally Addresses Will Smith Oscar Slap During Explosive Netflix Special!

Revenge is Best Served Cold and Chris Rock certainly gave the audience Goosebumps with his response to Will Smith and the now infamous Oscar Slap!

This post contains affiliate links. If you click on the links and shop any items Pharaoh Diaries Magazine gets a commission. Welcome to today’s episode of The Gossip Diaries podcast! We are discussing Chris Rock’s explosive Netflix Special where he finally addresses the Will Smith Oscar Slap after nearly a year of pretty much staying silent, we are also talking about The Real Housewives of…