(or, being on the edge of something)
for anything with “textual” qualities
first identify a movement, an exchange of meaning, between the literary and the real
(this is blatant disciplinary imperialism)
think of it as “poetics of culture”–meaning, in other words, is a relationship
(Surprise! meaning is only (barely) graspable, a little wispy
watch for unexpected spaces, for some may pass […]
Posts under ‘Postmodernism’
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Out of control in (post)modernity
The process of modernization, even as it exploits and torments us, brings our energies and imaginations to life, drives us to grasp and confront the world that modernization makes, and to strive to make it our own.
Marshall Berman, All That Is Solid Melts Into Air (1982)
history is out of control
increasing fragmentation and complexity of modern […]
Durkheim-Deleuze
Let the world be flat and full of fabulous contradictions, like sound.
Something experimental, unique, new.
Some bass bubbling up from below.
Structure and tribal rhythms sharing space with meandering digressions.
Synthetic, impeccably tuned, and familiar while wild, aggressive riffs scratch on the upbeats
Let the world be as we know it, and let it need nothing else to […]
