INTERLUDE: The Pleasure & Promise of Re-Reading

Update: 2025-06-26

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I wanted to drop in with a quiet interlude about re-reading (or re-watching, or re-listening) and its value in a world obsessed with new and different.

Footnotes:

Read the essay version of this episode.
"Murderbot Gets Us In Ways Humans Don't" by Tara McMullin on Motley Bloom
"Broken Links" by Tara McMullin
Liquid Modernity by Zygmunt Bauman
Capital is Dead: Is This Something Worse? by Mackenzie Wark

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INTERLUDE: The Pleasure & Promise of Re-Reading

Tara McMullin

INTERLUDE: The Pleasure & Promise of Re-Reading