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Robert Philen's Blog: February 2009
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Anthropology, Culture Theory, and Cultural and Political Commentary. Sunday, February 8, 2009. Reginald and the Muses. In which he treats the notion of poetry as derived from the muses in a variety of guises, though focusing especially on Jack Spicer’s notion of poetry as dictation. Reginald was largely skeptical of the idea of poetry as dictation or as derived from Muses or as transmissions from the ghost radio:. In that sense Spicer conveys what it often feels like to do poetry.”. I’d say it̵...
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Robert Philen's Blog: Things I Miss, 8
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Anthropology, Culture Theory, and Cultural and Political Commentary. Thursday, January 29, 2009. Things I Miss, 8. I miss Reginald’s passion and joy in living. Despite the hard life he had (see Hard Knocks Life: Things I Miss, 7. Reginald loved life like no other person I’ve known. Further, he tended to identify very strongly with those works of art (with again this being most especially the case with music) which he did care about. Or perhaps I have that backwards. Perhaps it was those works and...Hot C...
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Robert Philen's Blog: Thoughts on Allusion, Quotation, Remixing, and Poetry
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Anthropology, Culture Theory, and Cultural and Political Commentary. Tuesday, April 7, 2009. Thoughts on Allusion, Quotation, Remixing, and Poetry. Both on this blog and on “Reginald Shepherd’s Blog” (which I’ve been maintaining since his death), I recently posted a piece called “Reginald and the Muses” (Follow this link. For the piece on this blog, or this link. That said, I also recognize art isn’t always comfortable. There are many examples of poets borrowing a few words, a phrase, a line from another...
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Robert Philen's Blog: Cover Tunes
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Anthropology, Culture Theory, and Cultural and Political Commentary. Sunday, August 16, 2009. I’ve been thinking about cover tunes. Some of my favorite versions of songs are cover versions. The versions of cover songs I tend to dislike are those that are completely expected, singers or bands playing songs by similar artists in essentially identical fashion. Usually, the main reaction I have to such covers is a reminder of how much I like or dislike the original version of the song. There are obviously ma...
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Robert Philen's Blog: September 2008
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Anthropology, Culture Theory, and Cultural and Political Commentary. Monday, September 29, 2008. Things I Miss, 2. I miss caring for and tending to Reginald. I miss cooking for him when he could keep some food down – always iffy, since he was on chemotherapy from last December through April, and on multiple antibiotics continuously from then on. I miss getting him cans of Ensure or Gatorade when those were the only things he could keep down. Links to this post. Friday, September 26, 2008. I’ll alwa...
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Robert Philen's Blog: February 2008
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Anthropology, Culture Theory, and Cultural and Political Commentary. Wednesday, February 27, 2008. Some Books By Non-Anthropologists For Cultural Anthropologists To Read. Like most scholars, I have a passion for books. Having enjoyed putting together two posts ( here. The Riddle of the Dinosaur. By John Noble Wilford, Knopf, 1986. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood. Pantheon, 2003, and. Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return. Pantheon, 2004, both by Marjane Satrapi. Nomads of South Persia. Satrapi’s...
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Robert Philen's Blog: Reginald and the Muses
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Anthropology, Culture Theory, and Cultural and Political Commentary. Sunday, February 8, 2009. Reginald and the Muses. In which he treats the notion of poetry as derived from the muses in a variety of guises, though focusing especially on Jack Spicer’s notion of poetry as dictation. Reginald was largely skeptical of the idea of poetry as dictation or as derived from Muses or as transmissions from the ghost radio:. In that sense Spicer conveys what it often feels like to do poetry.”. I’d say it̵...
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Robert Philen's Blog: March 2008
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Anthropology, Culture Theory, and Cultural and Political Commentary. Monday, March 31, 2008. Eqbal Ahmad and Terrorism. I recently read a short collection of essays by and interviews with the Eqbal Ahmad,. Terrorism: Theirs and Ours. Links to this post. Sunday, March 23, 2008. Jane Hurd, A Remembrance. Nana was a good grandmother, both in the sense that she was a good person and a good person to have as a grandmother and in the sense that she was good at embodying an archetype of grandmotherliness. Espec...
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Robert Philen's Blog: April 2008
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Anthropology, Culture Theory, and Cultural and Political Commentary. Tuesday, April 8, 2008. In my previous post ( “Some Thoughts on Ethnography”. I mentioned having recently reviewed the various essays in. Including that by Mary Louise Pratt, while preparing for a discussion in a graduate seminar. In Pratt’s essay, shortly after the section I discussed in my previous post, Pratt writes (p. 33; parenthetical added):. What did they have to do to themselves? I said above I think Pratt was asking the wrong ...
