Sam Kriss

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  • Dec 29, 2025
    There’s a kind of nausea or vertigo I get when confronted by an extremely large number. Kant called it the mathematical sublime, the terror before something that is...
  • Oct 20, 2025
    Late in Gravity’s Rainbow, his monstrous, sprawling 1973 masterpiece about rocketry, Thomas Pynchon spits that “there’s nothing so repulsive as a sentimental...