Culture Industry

I’m still alive, tho last week came close to killing me. (NB: If you send in a manuscript with either calculus equations or Greek quotations...

Culture Industry has been more or less dark for a while now, & may remain that way for a bit longer. A lot on our plate here in the spac...

I’m still in the trenches of preparing syllabi (D-Day is tomorrow – er, later today, I guess) & therefore not at all available for exten...

There's a whacking large update of Zach Barocas's always lively Cultural Society , with new work from Norman Finkelstein, Peter O...

is what I've been, what with licking a poetry manuscript into send-outable shape, trying to put together syllabi for next week & to ...

Ruskin, writing of the ornamentation of concave & convex pillar capitals in Stones of Venice (volume I, chapter XXVII), anticipates Ron...

Philadelphia was nice, if a bit cold. A shame, given that this was one MLA – with Marjorie Perloff as president, much of the big show was ge...

I'm off the Philadelphia later today, where I'll be spending most of my time in an overcrowded hotel room talking to people who'...

One of the welcome gifts to cross my threshold this holiday was this , the 4-volume Grove Press Centenary edition of Samuel Beckett. I'v...

One of the great watersheds of late 20th-century pop music, so far as I’m concerned, came in 1970 or so, when Richard Thompson sold his gold...

I’m by no means on my deathbed, but I’ve been operating at a lot less than 100%, that’s for sure. Reading, as I noted, has become somewhat s...

(drumroll...) the Illness Formerly Known As Walking [ or in this case pretty much lying down all the time & shuffling around a little bi...

[ Man Ray, Marcel Proust on his Deathbed ] how I'm feeling right now, in the grips of some flu-like something or other.

Okay, I really should be finishing grading a stack of finals on the synoptic gospels & John – but I can't resist drawing the interes...

So as I kinda expected, Bob Archambeau has weighed in on pleasure & difficulty, with a rather detailed (& illustrated) “story thus ...

I can help feeling there’s been a certain slippage in the recent discussion of pleasure among Josh Corey , Eric Selinger , & YVT, attrib...

Two of my favorite blogspherians, Josh Corey & Eric Selinger, have started a discussion on an old subject – pleasure & difficulty in...

It's been a pretty frantic week – the holiday, family in town, grading essays, watching as the wee little cough I'd had for a week m...

Ray Davis comments of Ulysses ’s 18 stylistic menu-choices, “I wonder if fear of stylistic tinnitus is why goofy "Eumaeus" and ...

It's hard to avoid Fernando Botero's paintings down here in South Florida. The Colombian artist's pudgy figures are enormously p...