Hello dear readers (even if you are hypothetical), I am a bad scholar. I am a slacker…Wait…maybe I’m a forward thinking hemi-visionary? NO!! A SLACKER! But perhaps…(shifty eyes direct shifty hands to type in the web page for Dragon Age: Origins) *link not provided because, dammit, they have enough publicity, and i’m not being...
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“An artist’s duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.” Nick Cave Hello theoretical readers, I’m back after a loooong delay, apologies to those teeming masses of you that were waiting with baited breath,...
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Hello readers, it’s been a while. I’ve mentioned that I’m a student, a professional book nerd. Well, for this piece I want to be more specific (well, kinda). I’m a student and employee (because I’m a TA) at Fishmammal State University (which is NOT FSU, it’s a northern US coastal school). So, because it’s...
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So, since this week’s organizing theme is “External lack of cohesion is internal harmony,” (a quote from the painter, Kandinsky) I suppose this is a good descriptor for the avant garde in general. Not so much a coalition as a group of artists and thinkers with similar aesthetic and philosophical values, which address something...
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Hello again, readers, First, a quote from the venerable wiki: “Under Breton’s direction, Surrealism became a European movement that influenced all domains of art, and called into question the origin of human understanding and human perceptions of things and events.” – Wikipedia (‘Andre Breton’) “human perceptions of things and events”, of course, included our...
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Dear reader-people, Friedrich Nietzsche – whose name I always spell wrong on the first try- said that GOD is dead. I don’t know about that. George W doesn’t agree, nor does a large part of our silly country (hmmm…silly and rich and well armed…interesting combination.) Nietzsche‘s meaning is debatable. The man was quite mad...
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Hi Friends, This week I’m at the MLA conference in Philadelphia. For those of you that have never heard of the Modern Language Association, it’s the biggest club of all the big clubs for people that make their living, or attempt to make their living, out of being teacher-y book nerds (such as yours...
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hi friends, So, now a close reading of Rush’s ‘Limelight’…which I acknowledge is totally inappropriate for a prog-rock song, because that’s exactly what those nerds wanted when they wrote it, but here goes… (oh, by the way, JUDITH BUTLER!!) The theory that will go into this is comes from Butler’s amazing books Gender Trouble...
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It’s odd how talking reasonably about the absurd can only proceed by dissections that render the absurd utterly banal. The wonderful, hilarious and frustrating to the overly-serious, the fantastic absurd! The absurd exists, some say (code for, ‘I cannot find the quote’), in a tripartite logical arrangement with the true and the false. Like...
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I offer, my seaonally affective friends…the gift of bell hooks… The card is pretty accurate, bell hooks (yes, that is the way she insists we write her name) is indeed a a brilliant, influential, somewhat postmodern, literary and cultural critic striving towards a revolution…and so in this season of gifting, I’m offering a recommendation to read...
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