Andrea Long Chu

finance buying a ranch that is featured in Yellowstone and which he, you know, even taking away some level of sort of judgment, which, you know, I would not ultimately, but even taking that away, it's like, oh, like it's so interesting to think of a show as essentially a down payment on a property. That's not a metaphor, right?

If I say, oh, the show's a meditation on American masculinity, might be true, but it's like, these things just like exist. Like that to me is very interesting. Like that moment where there is just like pieces of just like mundane reality are kind of like poking out of the text because actual pieces of reality do end up in these works.

If I say, oh, the show's a meditation on American masculinity, might be true, but it's like, these things just like exist. Like that to me is very interesting. Like that moment where there is just like pieces of just like mundane reality are kind of like poking out of the text because actual pieces of reality do end up in these works.

If I say, oh, the show's a meditation on American masculinity, might be true, but it's like, these things just like exist. Like that to me is very interesting. Like that moment where there is just like pieces of just like mundane reality are kind of like poking out of the text because actual pieces of reality do end up in these works.

And so I like to try to find them and see if they can kind of lead me back out of the text.

And so I like to try to find them and see if they can kind of lead me back out of the text.

And so I like to try to find them and see if they can kind of lead me back out of the text.

I think one of the things that I am most interested in about desire is we take for granted a lot of the categories that we use to think about ourselves, right? You know, the thing about identity, which means sameness, is that you have to have two things in order for something to be the same.

I think one of the things that I am most interested in about desire is we take for granted a lot of the categories that we use to think about ourselves, right? You know, the thing about identity, which means sameness, is that you have to have two things in order for something to be the same.

I think one of the things that I am most interested in about desire is we take for granted a lot of the categories that we use to think about ourselves, right? You know, the thing about identity, which means sameness, is that you have to have two things in order for something to be the same.

So there's always going to be a certain level of difference between anyone that I want to have something in common with and myself. And that gap can only be crossed through desire or will. The wanting is part of what the identity is. And to cover that up, as we often want to do, the fantasy of an identity that just...

So there's always going to be a certain level of difference between anyone that I want to have something in common with and myself. And that gap can only be crossed through desire or will. The wanting is part of what the identity is. And to cover that up, as we often want to do, the fantasy of an identity that just...

So there's always going to be a certain level of difference between anyone that I want to have something in common with and myself. And that gap can only be crossed through desire or will. The wanting is part of what the identity is. And to cover that up, as we often want to do, the fantasy of an identity that just...

happens to me and that I don't have to do any work to be a part of and that I just sort of own just by virtue of some kind of givenness, I understand the fantasy. I experience the fantasy constantly, right? But it is a fantasy.

happens to me and that I don't have to do any work to be a part of and that I just sort of own just by virtue of some kind of givenness, I understand the fantasy. I experience the fantasy constantly, right? But it is a fantasy.

happens to me and that I don't have to do any work to be a part of and that I just sort of own just by virtue of some kind of givenness, I understand the fantasy. I experience the fantasy constantly, right? But it is a fantasy.

Oh, yeah. I mean, I think a lot of art, certainly a lot of novels, is that, right? Is an artifact the sort of, like, fossil record of desire and a fantasy? And I do think you can sort of watch it. If you learn to look in a particular way, you can see the way that desire is... kind of trying to leave the writer, but also the writer is still clinging to it.

Oh, yeah. I mean, I think a lot of art, certainly a lot of novels, is that, right? Is an artifact the sort of, like, fossil record of desire and a fantasy? And I do think you can sort of watch it. If you learn to look in a particular way, you can see the way that desire is... kind of trying to leave the writer, but also the writer is still clinging to it.

Oh, yeah. I mean, I think a lot of art, certainly a lot of novels, is that, right? Is an artifact the sort of, like, fossil record of desire and a fantasy? And I do think you can sort of watch it. If you learn to look in a particular way, you can see the way that desire is... kind of trying to leave the writer, but also the writer is still clinging to it.

And there's a kind of drama to that that I am really interested in.