Katya Danziger
@katyadanziger.bsky.social
Writer. Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. Kadampa Buddhist. www.katyadanziger.com
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Leonard Cohen by Eric Mulet 1995 🖤
December 27, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Leonard Cohen by Eric Mulet 1995 🖤
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⚡️ Russia outlaws protest band Pussy Riot, labels it 'extremist.'
Nadya Tolokonnikova, a co-founder of the group, said the verdict aims "to erase Pussy Riot's very existence from the Russian consciousness."
Nadya Tolokonnikova, a co-founder of the group, said the verdict aims "to erase Pussy Riot's very existence from the Russian consciousness."
Russia outlaws protest band Pussy Riot, labels it 'extremist organization'
Nadya Tolokonnikova, a co-founder of the group, said the verdict aims "to erase Pussy Riot's very existence from the Russian consciousness."
kyivindependent.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
⚡️ Russia outlaws protest band Pussy Riot, labels it 'extremist.'
Nadya Tolokonnikova, a co-founder of the group, said the verdict aims "to erase Pussy Riot's very existence from the Russian consciousness."
Nadya Tolokonnikova, a co-founder of the group, said the verdict aims "to erase Pussy Riot's very existence from the Russian consciousness."
Where once we'd have to justify an unconventional production with a newspaper article, now it seems we must justify (even apologize for) a conventional/traditional one...
Via @nytimes.com
Via @nytimes.com
At the Met, Toasting With Traditional Puritans on New Year’s Eve
www.nytimes.com
December 31, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Where once we'd have to justify an unconventional production with a newspaper article, now it seems we must justify (even apologize for) a conventional/traditional one...
Via @nytimes.com
Via @nytimes.com
“Heidegger felt poetry was most appropriate for discussing truth, as the natural process of pulling information, analyzing it, and pushing it back out might best be achieved without potentially false forced ontology. Keats loved the “negative capability” of Shakespeare…”
@six18sfoundry.bsky.social
@six18sfoundry.bsky.social
The Finding and Making of “Saints & Symbols”
When I read Sebald or Nabokov I am seated in my apartment in New Hope or maybe walking in Norwich, or the Congo, or Ithaca, or Zembla — or Eden. Are
www.thesmartset.com
December 31, 2025 at 1:52 AM
“Heidegger felt poetry was most appropriate for discussing truth, as the natural process of pulling information, analyzing it, and pushing it back out might best be achieved without potentially false forced ontology. Keats loved the “negative capability” of Shakespeare…”
@six18sfoundry.bsky.social
@six18sfoundry.bsky.social
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What they were teaching in young Dielman’s school
December 31, 2025 at 1:22 AM
What they were teaching in young Dielman’s school
The Madhymaka Prasangikas couldn’t have said it any better themselves…
“What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives.”
—Ursula K. Le Guin
—Ursula K. Le Guin
December 31, 2025 at 1:21 AM
The Madhymaka Prasangikas couldn’t have said it any better themselves…
Ursula Le Guin on the subtle impermanence of phenomena:
"What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives."
#BuddhistPhilosophy #MiddleWay
"What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives."
#BuddhistPhilosophy #MiddleWay
December 31, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Ursula Le Guin on the subtle impermanence of phenomena:
"What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives."
#BuddhistPhilosophy #MiddleWay
"What goes too long unchanged destroys itself. The forest is forever because it dies and dies and so lives."
#BuddhistPhilosophy #MiddleWay
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Your happy reminder that Marianne Faithfull was born on December 29, 1946; Patti Smith on the very next day. The universe speaking to us, through song.
December 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Your happy reminder that Marianne Faithfull was born on December 29, 1946; Patti Smith on the very next day. The universe speaking to us, through song.
Condolences to her entire family and all those who loved her… May her memory serve as a blessing…
Breaking News: Tatiana Schlossberg, an environmental journalist and child of Caroline Kennedy, died at 35. She recently wrote of her battle with leukemia in The New Yorker. nyti.ms/4pjDWiz
December 30, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Condolences to her entire family and all those who loved her… May her memory serve as a blessing…
RIP to a very brave soul and her young family. May her words serve as a reminder to never take this very precious human life for granted, even for a moment…
A Battle with My Blood
When I was diagnosed with leukemia, my first thought was that this couldn’t be happening to me, to my family.
www.newyorker.com
December 30, 2025 at 10:41 PM
RIP to a very brave soul and her young family. May her words serve as a reminder to never take this very precious human life for granted, even for a moment…
“I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.”
—Virginia Woolf, from The Letters of Virginia Woolf
—Virginia Woolf, from The Letters of Virginia Woolf
December 30, 2025 at 1:23 AM
“I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.”
—Virginia Woolf, from The Letters of Virginia Woolf
—Virginia Woolf, from The Letters of Virginia Woolf
Longed for him. Got him. Shit.
–Margaret Atwood
–Margaret Atwood
December 26, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Longed for him. Got him. Shit.
–Margaret Atwood
–Margaret Atwood
If that’s the world’s smartest man, God help us.
– Richard Feynman’s mother, Lucille Feynman, after Omni magazine named him the world’s smartest man.
– Richard Feynman’s mother, Lucille Feynman, after Omni magazine named him the world’s smartest man.
December 26, 2025 at 4:16 AM
If that’s the world’s smartest man, God help us.
– Richard Feynman’s mother, Lucille Feynman, after Omni magazine named him the world’s smartest man.
– Richard Feynman’s mother, Lucille Feynman, after Omni magazine named him the world’s smartest man.
Boris Johnson: "Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix and stay conscious"
December 24, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Boris Johnson: "Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix and stay conscious"
A piece that made me grateful for my NYTimes subscription… preserving the history of a certain late 20th century literary world that we likely won't see again. I mourn this loss every day as a Gen Z-er.
A Writer Who Dazzled on the Page but Lived for the Margins
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:33 AM
A piece that made me grateful for my NYTimes subscription… preserving the history of a certain late 20th century literary world that we likely won't see again. I mourn this loss every day as a Gen Z-er.
The right is making inroads with demographic groups typically associated with the Left (capital L): urbanites, artists, writers and Gen Z. Important piece to study as an example of how social scenes materialize into political realities.
Nick Allen, the founder of the event space Sovereign House, “is in this weird role where he’s kind of like an embassy in New York for us,” a young Trump official said. Read about the man behind the popular gathering spot for right-wing Zoomers. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/cguYAF
The Party Politics of Sovereign House
Nick Allen’s venue in Dimes Square was a popular gathering spot for right-wing Zoomers. Now he’s opening a new club called Reign, an attempt to build a lasting cultural institution.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
December 17, 2025 at 10:01 AM
The right is making inroads with demographic groups typically associated with the Left (capital L): urbanites, artists, writers and Gen Z. Important piece to study as an example of how social scenes materialize into political realities.
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Anya Schiffrin on the normalization of media capture, with @azmatzahra.bsky.social and Journalism 2050 hosts @emilybell.bsky.social and Heather Chaplin. youtu.be/krcMZxnFtEY?...
December 12, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Anya Schiffrin on the normalization of media capture, with @azmatzahra.bsky.social and Journalism 2050 hosts @emilybell.bsky.social and Heather Chaplin. youtu.be/krcMZxnFtEY?...
On the importance of Isaiah Berlin…
www.tabletmag.com/sections/art...
www.tabletmag.com/sections/art...
December 16, 2025 at 9:26 PM
On the importance of Isaiah Berlin…
www.tabletmag.com/sections/art...
www.tabletmag.com/sections/art...
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On this day — December 16th — in 1775, this clever creature was born.
Happy 250th birthday, Jane Austen!
Happy 250th birthday, Jane Austen!
December 16, 2025 at 1:57 PM
On this day — December 16th — in 1775, this clever creature was born.
Happy 250th birthday, Jane Austen!
Happy 250th birthday, Jane Austen!
“You must be so, you cannot flee yourself / Thus sybils long ago pronounced, thus prophets / And neither time nor any power can dismember / Characteristic form, living, self-developing.”
— Orphic Primal Words. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
— Orphic Primal Words. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
December 16, 2025 at 9:16 PM
“You must be so, you cannot flee yourself / Thus sybils long ago pronounced, thus prophets / And neither time nor any power can dismember / Characteristic form, living, self-developing.”
— Orphic Primal Words. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
— Orphic Primal Words. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Netrebko is past her prime anyways. Weird choice for the RSO at a time when young patronage is worse than ever.
Outside the Royal Opera House, a huddle wrapped in Ukrainian flags complained about the Russian soprano’s inclusion. Inside she was having a ball
Turandot review — despite the protests, Anna Netrebko is a bulletproof diva
www.thetimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Netrebko is past her prime anyways. Weird choice for the RSO at a time when young patronage is worse than ever.
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