Monthly Archives: July 2009
Not Outmoded but Classical
Marx is neither actual nor outmoded: he is classical, and the whole Marxist and Communist tradition, more or less equal in duration to Athens’s golden age, is precisely that golden age of the European left, to be returned to again
Not Outmoded but Classical
Marx is neither actual nor outmoded: he is classical, and the whole Marxist and Communist tradition, more or less equal in duration to Athens’s golden age, is precisely that golden age of the European left, to be returned to again
Norton Anthology of English Literature
A The New York Review of Ideas article looks at the controversy surrounding the history of the textbook that “set the reading lists for British Literature courses throughout the world—its impossibly thin pages introducing Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Wordsworth to generation
Norton Anthology of English Literature
A The New York Review of Ideas article looks at the controversy surrounding the history of the textbook that “set the reading lists for British Literature courses throughout the world—its impossibly thin pages introducing Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Wordsworth to generation
Cute Asian Poses
I came by the asianposes.com blog via Frances in facebook. What I found fascinating, apart from the fact that the models really are cute, is that the poses demonstrate how in certain instances, to put it in a now overused
Cute Asian Poses
I came by the asianposes.com blog via Frances in facebook. What I found fascinating, apart from the fact that the models really are cute, is that the poses demonstrate how in certain instances, to put it in a now overused
Disappearance by Trifonov
The first half of the 20th Century affirmed humanity’s capacity to rise above difficulties. The exploitative order was directly challenged by the building of a really-existing alternative to capitalism in Russia and parts of Eastern Europe while various movements for
Disappearance by Trifonov
The first half of the 20th Century affirmed humanity’s capacity to rise above difficulties. The exploitative order was directly challenged by the building of a really-existing alternative to capitalism in Russia and parts of Eastern Europe while various movements for
Literature?
It has always been a convention with an old friend to ask me a question about the criteria for awarding international literary prizes every time we bump into each other. The winners for the Nobel Prize in Physics, for example,
Literature?
It has always been a convention with an old friend to ask me a question about the criteria for awarding international literary prizes every time we bump into each other. The winners for the Nobel Prize in Physics, for example,
A Case of Interpassive Reading
I have always been a voracious reader. I read anything I can lay my hands: from novels to religious pamphlets, from popular culture to high culture, from romance pocket books to Dostoevsky, from Candy Magazine to Mao’s On Contradiction, from
A Case of Interpassive Reading
I have always been a voracious reader. I read anything I can lay my hands: from novels to religious pamphlets, from popular culture to high culture, from romance pocket books to Dostoevsky, from Candy Magazine to Mao’s On Contradiction, from
(Mis)readings