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Autumn | Thinking Blue Guitars
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Reliable, secretly contemplative husbands imagine what might have been or what simply never was; the wives stand at their doors exhaling smoke into the nearly liberating air. The threshold is renewed each time they never cross it in their mind. Even children seem to sense a brooding undertow to games that just a month ago (but what is time to they who live in dreams? October 18, 2011. 3 Comments to “Autumn”. October 19, 2011 at 4:01 pm. January 4, 2012 at 11:16 am. October 21, 2011 at 8:44 am. Fill in yo...
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Derrida and Literarity | Thinking Blue Guitars
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I’m currently reading an interview with Derrida conducted by Derek Attridge in April 1989, since translated into English in. 1992) (If someone could let me know where to get hold of the original French interview, I’d be grateful). Of all philosophers, Derrida is the most dangerous to quote out of context, but I couldn’t resist his definition of ‘literarity’:. There is no text which is literary. Literary, but has in the famous phrase of Eagleton ‘literariness thrust upon it’. A text is literary if I.
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Q. D. Leavis on J. G. Ballard | Thinking Blue Guitars
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Q D Leavis on J. G. Ballard. Q D Leavis (1906-1981). I came across this quotation last week in an essay by Francis Mulhern. Q. D. Leavis thinks she’s describing the general destitution of Britain and its literature, but what she’s actually doing is summarising the key elements of J. G. Ballard’s fiction. August 19, 2012. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). Notify me of new comments via email. Marc Garange...
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The Concept of Totality in Lukács and Jameson | Thinking Blue Guitars
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The Concept of Totality in Lukács and Jameson. For anyone who’s interested in the work of György Lukács or Fredric Jameson, I’ve just uploaded a draft version of a paper. I gave 18 months ago at the Historical Materialism conference in London. Here’s the abstract:. February 21, 2012. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. Laquo; Previous Post.
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Lars Iyer’s Misreading of Badiou | Thinking Blue Guitars
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Lars Iyer’s Misreading of Badiou. From his latest novel is anything to go by) is mistaken. I say this with no particular malice since it was a (mis)reading I more or less shared until being set straight by Bruno Bosteels’ The Actuality of Communism. The excerpt from Iyer’s novel ends thus:. But what would Alain Badiou make of us? What would he conclude? Enemies, he would think. No, not even that, Badiou would think. ‘. Pas enemies. Les tosseurs. This is wrong: vagueness does. Of interests (disinterested-...
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More than Nothing: Kevin Bacon’s “Bacon Number” | Thinking Blue Guitars
https://thinkingblueguitars.wordpress.com/2012/09/14/more-than-nothing-kevin-bacons-bacon-number
More than Nothing: Kevin Bacon’s “Bacon Number”. A new craze is surging across the internet: The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon . According to Wikipedia. The question I would like to pose is this: what is the precise value of Bacon’s Bacon number? In other words, what exactly does 0 mean here? On the surface, the meaning is simple: since Bacon is himself, there cannot be any degree of separation between Bacon and Bacon. Yet philosophers would disagree. At the beginning of. Thus, Kevin Bacon’s Bacon number of...
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On Rilke and Love | Thinking Blue Guitars
https://thinkingblueguitars.wordpress.com/2011/10/21/on-rilke-and-love
On Rilke and Love. Of the angels, man is a quivering beast who is always ahead and yet still catching up. What does love look like in a world like this? There are several kinds of love in the. When you lift one another, raise each other to drink. The full draught, mouth on mouth – oh, strange. The way each drinker grows distant from the act. So what is the alternative? Here, Rilke turns to the ‘Attic stellae’ (gravestones) with their gestures of restraint:. 8230;Didn’t love and parting. The extension of ...
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Nonstop You | Thinking Blue Guitars
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That a combination of CCTV, facial recognition technology and radio frequency identification are paving the way for real-time individualised adverts. Based on our online activity, our physical appearances and so on, we will be presented in public with adverts which cater to our unique personal tastes. This is worrying on many levels, but the one I want to focus on is how it might affect our subjectivity. July 30, 2013. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Address never made public). You a...
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From the Archive | Thinking Blue Guitars
https://thinkingblueguitars.wordpress.com/2012/08/28/from-the-archive
On Learning a Language. On Rilke and Love. The Condition of Mediocrity. I hope you enjoy them! August 28, 2012. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out. Laquo; Previous Post.
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The Standing Men and Women of Taksim | Thinking Blue Guitars
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The Standing Men and Women of Taksim. What the legends forget is that he was not alone. First one, then ten, then thousands of others joined him, until the standing men and women of Taksim stood for all men and women everywhere. Whilst they stood as they still stand scholars squabbled over meanings: did an angel really coat their eyes, or was it something else? June 18, 2013. Standing men and women. One Comment to “The Standing Men and Women of Taksim”. June 30, 2013 at 12:18 am. Enter your comment here.
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