August 30 07
Too many people have blogged about Barry Bonds and The Record already.
Since I am hardly a baseball fan, I gave little time to following the run-up to Barry’s 756th home run early in August 2007. I kept up appearances with the family (all sportive types), and spoke once or twice with a close friend [...]
August 28 07
Presented today, as a brief lesson in elementary Saussurian structuralism, and post-structuralism, is an excerpt from Umberto Eco’s 1980 novel, Il Nome Della Rosa (tr: The Name of The Rose, 1983). Any semiotician or Eco-fan will be familiar with the text, and with the excerpt, as it is one of any number of pages from [...]
August 25 07
As if we needed another link to justify oour use of the internet, what with the incredible amount of internet banking, monster.com job-hunting, google calendaring and flickr photosharing we do, I present today a small but wondrous hip-hop-ified rendition of William Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud“.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXbrSALG684]
Re-interpreted as a short rap as part of [...]
August 20 07
Jane Austen strikes again! – or so the news, Hollywood and our collective response to the two would have us assume. Becoming Jane, a new faux-biopic on Austen’s life has been released to theatres, and it is consuming headlines faster than Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth could make us turn our heads (and their [...]
August 17 07
This is an addendum to a post I began last week on the enthusiasm inherent in postmodernism, as explicated by Linda Hutcheon in her Poetics of Postmodernism (1988). In this, another long excerpt, Hutcheon explains what “meaning” in a postmodern world (that is, in our systems, our philosophies, our politics, our art forms, etc) [...]
August 11 07
There is a lesson at hand today, on the nature of post-modernism and its place in society today. It is not so much a lecture as it is a reminder of some important words written by Linda Hutcheon in 1988. [Recent talk on pomo has kick-started my summer studies into high gear, it [...]
August 9 07
Reading and responding to a recent blog post on post-modernism at Tales From The Reading Room has got me thinking about the current state of post-modern criticism within our own culture. Although some of PoMo’s “big names” such as Jameson and Hutcheon are still alive and well and kicking the theoretical can around the [...]
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Tagged Edward Said, Fredric Jameson, Jacques Derrida, Jean Baudrillard, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Linda Hutcheon, literary theory, postmodernism, Roland Barthes, Susan Sontage, Theodor Adorno, theory