Culture Industry

Very nice, thank you. I spent a good deal of time over the weekend with some old friends and acquaintances, talking, eating & drinking, ...

After a pretty hellaciously busy half-week, I’m packing to leave for Louisville tomorrow afternoon. The paper I’ll be delivering is as done ...

by yer 'umble blogger on the latest issue of Tony Tost's excellent Fascicle : "Captain Modernism," "John Milton Blues...

This is one of those weekends – one of those “J’s away at a family event in New York & I’ve got solo charge of the girls, even as I’m ei...

There was a period in my life – roughly from 14 to 17 – when I read everything by the English novelist Anthony Burgess I could lay my hands ...

My blogging has been so spotty of late that I feel I owe my 7 real readers – the readers, that is, aside from the hundreds who surf by to s...

I was saddened to learn of the death last weekend of Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, and interested to find Bob Archambeau remembering him today o...

In the first chapter of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man , we meet the Dedalus family friend Mr Casey, whose hand is cramped from a s...

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...