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Understanding Postmodernism, #24.

CONCEPT

This project is an informal discussion of modernism and postmodernism, ultimately to be applied to the larger Gothic Funk debate. A more detailed description of the project is available here. PLEASE ADD YOUR COMMENTS AND JOIN THE DEBATE:


Paragraph 4, Sentence 6:

Second, the poets develop collage techniques for intensifying that sense of productive immediacy: it becomes the spaces between images that offer the audience its access to the mode of spirit defined by the work.

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Lumas 8, 29.

DIARY

– TOMORROW – is Canada Day.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Yesterday – Reinhardt! Today – Aashish. Tomorrow – Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Dan Aykroyd, Missy Elliott, Sufjan Stevens, Liv Tyler. It’s a big day for people Connor admires…

– LINK OF THE WEEK –
Davey D’s Hip-Hop Corner: The New Source for the Hip-Hop Generation.

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Lumas 6, 28.

DIARY

– TODAY – is Stonewall day?
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – The comic Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the political theorist Mel Brooks. And, why not?: John Cusack.

– PICTURE OF THE WEEK –
Finland Holiday Cottages – Sunset at Midsummer.

– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
What is your story of excruciating physical pain?

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Understanding Postmodernism, #23.

CONCEPT

This project is an informal discussion of modernism and postmodernism, ultimately to be applied to the larger Gothic Funk debate. A more detailed description of the project is available here. PLEASE ADD YOUR COMMENTS AND JOIN THE DEBATE:


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Images like Rilke’s “Der Panther” or Williams’ “black eyed Susan” combine the fluit, attentive sensibility of impressionism with a symbolist concern top place the object in a site where one senses its participation in a play of permanent energies given reality by the poem’s dense formal patternings.

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Lumas 5, 29.

DIARY

– JUNE – is the month of entrepreneurs.
– TODAY – is Stonewall Day.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Helen Keller and Tobey Maguire (who is thirty years old).

– QUOTE OF THE WEEK –
“As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.”

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Letter I wrote to Flint Journal columnist Andrew Heller, with regards to mayor Don Williamson.

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Mr. Heller wrote the following column: Redemption still eludes The Don.

Hello,

I enjoyed your column today on the Don and his antics.

On the one hand, I think you’re a little bit too easy on the guy. Whether or not Don Williamson is able to make sound policy decisions is of central importance, but it’s not the entirety of the issue.

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