#sean michaels

[dk-thrive]

There’s a line I read once, by an Egyptian poet whose name I cannot remember: that a diary’s function is not to show you who you are, but who it is you have ceased to be.

— Sean Michaels, Do You Remember Being Born: A Novel (Astra House, September 5, 2023)

[sacredwhores]

Joe D'Amato - 120 Days of Sodom (1995)

[eucanthos]

Matthieu Bourel

older work (before 2018) used as illustration for:

The year is 2149 and … Novelist Sean Michaels envisions what life will look like 125 years from now. By Sean Michaels for MIT August 28, 2024

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/28/1096774/sean-michaels-2149-fiction-speculation/

http://www.dojo.electrickettle.fr/

https://thesingingcanary.tumblr.com/

[smokefalls]

Humans have a difficult time with “natural.” We are better at “interesting” or “beautiful” or “forceful” than we are at “natural.” Everything is an exertion, everything is performance.

Sean Michaels, Do You Remember Being Born?

[spaceshipsandpurpledrank]

[vfdinthewild]

"She was kind to me from the very first day: she had seen so many other like this one, staggering in from Siberia, baffled by comfort."

- via Us Conductors by Sean Michaels, pg. 310

[magazinewankersworld]

In Loving Color

[walrusmagazine]

What Naomi Klein Learned about Herself from Naomi Wolf

A Q&A on doppelgangers, celebrity, and searching for answers

One of the reasons that I wanted to write this book is that I wanted to find my way back to some of the material I wrote about in my first book, No Logo. The landscape has changed so much since I first started writing about personal branding in the ’90s. There are threads in the book around the doubling of the self and the self taking up too much space. Even having kids is a form of doubling the self. I think this has such a deep impact on how we relate to each other, how we’re able to trust social movements. I really believe that we are not going to get out of any of the messes we’re in until we can find ways to work more robustly with others and in collective spaces. Anything that softens the icy edges of identity, melts them a little bit, is going to be helpful in that. Doppelgangers do that. They force you to reckon with the fact that maybe we aren’t as unique as we might believe. Being confused with someone else can be liberating.

Read more at thewalrus.ca.