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Writing or Art? Mel Bochner’s “LANGUAGE IS NOT TRANSPARENT” (1970)
Is it art? Is this the sort of art one passes by impatiently as not really art? Notice that it has no conventional images in it, such as, say, a Madonna with child. Where Mary and the baby Jesus might … Continue reading
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Tagged art, atheism, death, derrida, God, life, philosophy, time, writing
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Thinking Critically about Critical Theory
First thought. The broad takeaway insight of postmodernism is the following: there is always more in a text than the author knows or intends. This goes rather nicely with Nietzsche’s claim that “there are no facts, only interpretations.” But before … Continue reading
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Tagged aristotle, critical theory, critical thinking, derrida, Marxism, postmodernism, romanticism
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Mental Health Break
A near perfect video (and with great lyrics): From the lyrics: But in time a thought comes tugging on the sleavage of our minds: perhaps no perfect way exists at all, just many different kinds. . O but if it’s … Continue reading
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Tagged art, atheism, beauty, derrida, God, Keats, literature, mental health break, philosophy, postmodernism, psychology, the Beatles
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A Great Quote on Theory Sludge
This quote comes from Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, writing in the New York Times Book Review recently: The study of literature as an art form, of its techniques for delighting and instructing, has been replaced by an amalgam of bad epistemology … Continue reading
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Tagged art, books, coughing in ink, critical theory, derrida, literature, modernism, New York Times, postmodernism, reading, sludge, william butler yeats
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Prometheus Unbound 