Culture Industry

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Sunday, January 28, 2007

Catering to toddlers

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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...
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Saturday, January 20, 2007

AWOL

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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...
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Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Size Matters

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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...
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Thursday, January 04, 2007

self-promotional department

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

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is what I've been, what with licking a poetry manuscript into send-outable shape, trying to put together syllabi for next week & to ...
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Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Ruskin-Silliman-Adorno

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Ruskin, writing of the ornamentation of concave & convex pillar capitals in Stones of Venice (volume I, chapter XXVII), anticipates Ron...
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Sunday, December 31, 2006

Back

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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...
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Wednesday, December 27, 2006

out to lunch

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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'...
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Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Xmas Cheer (?)

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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...
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Saturday, December 23, 2006

Richard Thompson Starring as Henry the Human Fly

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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...
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Saturday, December 16, 2006

Light Reading

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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...
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Thursday, December 14, 2006

& the diagnosis is

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(drumroll...) the Illness Formerly Known As Walking [ or in this case pretty much lying down all the time & shuffling around a little bi...
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Monday, December 11, 2006

And here's

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[ Man Ray, Marcel Proust on his Deathbed ] how I'm feeling right now, in the grips of some flu-like something or other.
Friday, December 08, 2006

but wait...

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Okay, I really should be finishing grading a stack of finals on the synoptic gospels & John – but I can't resist drawing the interes...
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Thursday, December 07, 2006

Finally, some pleasure

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So as I kinda expected, Bob Archambeau has weighed in on pleasure & difficulty, with a rather detailed (& illustrated) “story thus ...
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Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Adam’s McRib

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I can help feeling there’s been a certain slippage in the recent discussion of pleasure among Josh Corey , Eric Selinger , & YVT, attrib...
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Monday, December 04, 2006

Make Mine Spicy, Please

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Two of my favorite blogspherians, Josh Corey & Eric Selinger, have started a discussion on an old subject – pleasure & difficulty in...
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Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Placeholder

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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...
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Sunday, November 26, 2006

Bad Joyce

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Ray Davis comments of Ulysses ’s 18 stylistic menu-choices, “I wonder if fear of stylistic tinnitus is why goofy "Eumaeus" and ...
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Wednesday, November 22, 2006

Crucified Smurfs

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