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Previous blog: Narratives of War

jennafrazier wrote 20 hours ago: During the winter quarter of my last year at UCSB, I took an English course through my LCI specializ … more →

Tags: Previous Work, Narratives of War, War-on-terror, Drones, total war, "Just" War???, trauma, Human Rights, pat barker

Quotes of quotes of quotes of quotes, 11/18

Dan Sullivan wrote 2 days ago: From Susan Sontag’s “The Aesthetics of Silence”: […] there is no such thing as emp … more →

Tags: quotation, Images, Gilles Deleuze, Ad Reinhardt

The Sovereignty of the Image #5: The Fiction of Trauma (End)

frankseeburger wrote 4 days ago: Below is the conclusion to the draft of the chapter section I began in my immediately preceding post … more →

Tags: Philosophy, trauma, Judith Butler, representation, the fiction of trauma

Adam Feldman: Quartet Was Brilliant and Time Out NY Should Give Me Your Job1 comment

Sebastian Sebastiani wrote 5 days ago: I’ve been in Brooklyn hanging out with Broken Brooklyn aka JT Ross and we’ve been ODing … more →

Tags: artist watch list, Dance and Performance, Party Time!, theatre, Adam Feldman, Ariel Garcia Valdès, "Bette Midler", divine, dolly parton

Susan Sontag's In America1 comment

Jess wrote 1 week ago: I hated this book at first.  The prologue (a first-person narrator, who is absent from the rest of t … more →

Tags: Prose, In America, nina revoyr, Southland

So long Soho Photo

fuzzypictures wrote 1 week ago: i’ve decided to move on from Soho Photo as they were not meeting my expectations or needs in a … more →

Tags: Art, Artist, breast cancer, Dance Photography, Galleries, Photography, Photography Exhibits

Going Grey2 comments

agoodspirit wrote 1 week ago: I’m going grey.  Yes me. Twenty-five-year-old me.  I’m not totally grey yet—just a few g … more →

Tags: Fashion, meryl streep, Grey, toni morrison, Annie Leibowitz, kathleen sebelius, grey hair, white hair, Age

The Image World - Susan Sontag (1977)3 comments

Hugh wrote 1 week ago: Susan Sontag’s On Photography is a text that every photography theory student grapples with at … more →

Tags: Visual culture, NCAD, On Photography, Philosophy, Photography, Realism, the image world

Weekend Bites: Dyson on Illmatic, National Bookstore Day, Bolaño "myth building", Sesame Street, Dirty Projectors, and More.

Jason Diamond wrote 1 week ago: Michael Eric Dyson wrote a book on Nas and his landmark album, Illmatic that is due out in January. … more →

Tags: bITes, Paris Review, roberto bolaño, James Ellroy, dirty projectors, Sesame Street, Tin House, NAS, Eric Dyson

Sea Cloud Circle Sojourn2 comments

Charlotte Hutson-Wrenn wrote 2 weeks ago: “Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Pay attention. Attention is vitality.” – Susan Sontag Once up … more →

Tags: Art, Creativity, Poetry, Religion, Travel, writing, Artist, Artist Retreat, chuck sullivan

Witold Gombrowicz' Ferdydurke

severalfourmany wrote 2 weeks ago: Mon 11/02/09 11:47 PM  “She threw her beloved from the train a kiss.” —Danuta Borchardt, demonstrati … more →

Tags: Literature, Politics, Art, Novel, Jorge Luis Borges, witold gombrowicz, Danuta Borchardt, Milan Kundera, roberto bolaño

RIP - CLAUDE LEVI-STRAUSS

urdead2me wrote 2 weeks ago: EXPIRED: 11/01/09 – Claude Levi-Strauss, 100, was a French social anthropologist who influence … more →

Tags: Was smarter than u, dead, Brazil, obituary, died, Dies, obit, RIP, Obituaries

This Day's Interesting Person

bsktcase67 wrote 2 weeks ago: German storytelling philosopher Walter Benjamin   —————-> Benjamin … more →

Tags: 1, Elegy, german writers, Literature, Walter Benjamin, Writers

Kewarasan Itu Membosankan, Rasa Sakit Itu Mewah 21 comments

Ali Sastro wrote 3 weeks ago: It is mostly a matter of tone: it is hardly possible to give credence to ideas uttered in the impers … more →

Tags: Curhat, Filsafat, Katarsis, Dostoyevsky, Kegilaan, ketidakwarasan, kewarasan

Beware the cost of war, and representation, and...

hiddencities wrote 3 weeks ago: Hanna is in Gaza and has a blog. It’s not always about what she does in the world’s larg … more →

Tags: Israel/Palestine, photos, Beware the Cost of War, Gaza, Photography, scopophobia

`If photographs could talk...', Joseph McGonagle, Manchester, 11 September - 26 October, 2009

johnperivolaris wrote 3 weeks ago:   John noted in my journal entries over the summer that when I arrived in Algiers I put down my … more →

Tags: Algeria, algiers, city, cobblestones, COLOR, colour, John Perivolaris, Joseph McGonagle, Journey

Reborn -- Susan Sontag

Biblioklept wrote 1 month ago: New in trade paperback next week from Picador, Reborn collects the early private writings of Susan S … more →

Tags: Books, Reviews, notes, journals, Reborn

(Visual) Quotes of quotes of quotes, 10/20

Dan Sullivan wrote 1 month ago: From Jacques Rivette’s La belle noiseuse (1991). Even if incompatible with intervention in a p … more →

Tags: quotation, Jacques Rivette, Images

Performance Anxiety6 comments

adairjones wrote 1 month ago: . First off, I have to mention that I’m not a performer.  I’m a writer.  In my case, that means I’m … more →

Tags: musings, Rediscovered, Strangled Words, Adair Jones, Brad Haseman, Ethnography, gertrude stein, J.L. Austin, Norman Denzin


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