Blogs about: Elaine Scarry
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Transfiguration Sunday
‘We mean all sorts of things, I know, by Beauty. But the essential advantage for a poet is not to have a beautiful world with which to deal. It is to be able to see beneath both beauty and uglin… more →
An Eye Made Quiet
Migraines and Aphasia
Catherine Borders wrote 2 months ago: Virginia Woolf once wrote: “The merest schoolgirl when she falls in love, has Shakespeare or K … more →
what I've been reading lately.
akivamegatech wrote 4 months ago: OK, in lieu of actually reading (it’s hard if not impossible to chat with two people, listen t … more →
Basement Girls, Fictional and Non-Fictional
c8ic8 wrote 4 months ago: WORD OF WARNING: There’s a lot of screwed up stuff discussed in this post. Beware. My good fri … more →
Memory of Political Economy - Reverberations to What End? Eduardo Galeano’s Open Veins of Latin America
Luis Diaz-Albertini wrote 5 months ago: Eduardo Galeano’s Open Veins of Latin America: five centuries of the pillage of a continent (publish … more →
Superficial symmetry
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traxus4420 wrote 5 months ago: …and category errors: “But two of civilization’s institutions, though not physical … more →
Transfiguration Sunday
Nathan wrote 9 months ago: ‘We mean all sorts of things, I know, by Beauty. But the essential advantage for a poet is not … more →
Gilding the lily
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rosemarymaccabe wrote 9 months ago: I first read JM Coetzee’s Disgrace in my final year in college in NUI Galway; it was as part o … more →
Adele Q&A: War
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foradele wrote 10 months ago: Adele: Mommy, what’s war? Mommy: It’s when countries or groups fight each other for some … more →
Dany Fleming adds Mike Milken and Lance Armstrong to the open source conversation.
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jeffkellylowenstein3 wrote 10 months ago: Dany Fleming shares how Mike Milken and Lance Armstrong are pushing for medical research to become m … more →
Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost
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Nathan wrote 1 year ago: ‘…[L]ook around you on the Metro; seated or standing, every single person has a finger i … more →
George W. Bush and the Rule of Law
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avschwarm wrote 1 year ago: I would like to draw your attention to an article by Elaine Scarry in the latest issue of the Boston … more →
a sore shoulder
vanessa wrote 1 year ago: a subject that interest me–how bodily feeling is attached to emotional feeling. i don’t … more →
Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost
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Nathan wrote 1 year ago: ‘There exists in our society a widespread fear of judging … [B]ehind the unwillingness t … more →
The Body In Pain
manifestterror wrote 1 year ago: I have just finished reading Elaine Scarry’s The Body In Pain. It is a meditation and study on … more →
Describing War Deaths in the News
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Anne Kosseff wrote 1 year ago: Something I’ve been interested in for a long time is the way war reports describe the deaths t … more →
Mayan Weaving, American Relations with China, and Remembering Suffering through Narratives
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Candice wrote 1 year ago: This post comes from a presentation I gave this semester in response to a lecture on Mayan weaving g … more →
Body In Pain Notes
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Tassie Gniady wrote 1 year ago: There are lots of questions scattered throughout the following post, and I’d love any thoughts … more →
The Body in Pain, Elaine Scarry
Tassie Gniady wrote 1 year ago: We’ll be reading the introduction and pages 63-81 of Elaine Scarry’s The Body in Pain fo … more →
Quotable quotes:
Miriam Jones wrote 1 year ago: To misstate, or even merely understate, the relation of the universities to beauty is one kind of er … more →
