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desperately need some of u who were celebrating bishagate to find out about agnes callard. uchicago also produces women quirky minor public figures who say insane things and share weirdly personal information about themselves with the world at large, not just men. hashtag feminism

#misha fucking WISHES the New Yorker would publish an article about his sex life #she divorced her husband (philosophy prof in the same department as her) for her own grad student she’d been having an affair with #and now they all live in the same house together #she hosted a late night philosophy debate on the morality of divorce between her and her ex husband #she and misha graduated in the same year too. what was in the water in hyde park in 1997 #agnes callard #misha collins #actorposting #drift.txt

"All fiction offers up the possibility of escape from everyday life, but great fiction allows us to explore what we otherwise look away from. Books and movies offer opportunities to ponder the great questions about the meaning of marriage, of friendship, of career, of politics, of suffering--and, yes, also of life and death. Fiction can make untimely questions askable--but only in relation to fictional characters. That is a serious limitation. We approach the lives of others with a kind of boldness that seems impossible for our own. When we come back to reality, and to the course of our own lives, we are, like Tolstoy, stuck 'telling ourselves tales.' When Ferrante describes 'the terrifying moment of serious reflection,' it is clear that she has confronted the Tolstoy problem."

-Agnes Callard, Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life

#the mortifying ordeal of being known (to even yourself) strikes again 😩#fiction #philosophy #agnes callard #open socrates

“agnes callard’s marriage of the minds”, by rachel aviv in the 14 mar 2023 issue of the new yorker.

agnes callard’s aspiration: the agency of becoming changed my life. or rather it taught me how to change my life and told me it was worth doing. worth aspiring towards a different self, one i understood poorly and only partially but nevertheless desperately wanted to become. i’m fascinated by her and how she lives her life

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Throughout my life, I have tended to chafe at pressures to conform to societal expectations. But if you find yourself stuck in an enclosed space with someone uncooperative and uncontrollable, you start to see the upside of mindlessly following a set of external rules. When you can’t be yourself—when your self isn’t anyone worth being—it is a relief to discover the option of being no one in particular.

Agnes Callard, The Eros Monster

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'1 x 30', Anne Carson / 'The Problem of Marital Loneliness', Agnes Callard

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Your child is a person whose mind you inhabit less and less, who will have to one day navigate a world that doesn’t include you. She is a future stranger.

Agnes Callard, “Half a Person”

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