Monthly Archives: September 2010
Random September Reading Notes
1. What I like about book reviews and literary criticism is this: I get to know which books to skip reading. Maria Teresa Martinez-Sicat’s Imagining the Nation in Four Novels, for example, criticizes Maximo Kalaw’s The Filipino Rebel: A Roman
Random September Reading Notes
1. What I like about book reviews and literary criticism is this: I get to know which books to skip reading. Maria Teresa Martinez-Sicat’s Imagining the Nation in Four Novels, for example, criticizes Maximo Kalaw’s The Filipino Rebel: A Roman
The American Press & the Iraq War
American movies feature scenes of people being blown up and gunned down; American TV programs show women being shot in the face. But television executives believe that when it comes to real war, Americans cannot bear to see bullet-ridden bodies
The American Press & the Iraq War
American movies feature scenes of people being blown up and gunned down; American TV programs show women being shot in the face. But television executives believe that when it comes to real war, Americans cannot bear to see bullet-ridden bodies
Anil’s Ghost and the Sri Lankan Civil War
Literary texts are ideological forms of social consciousness that arise out of the material foundations of society. Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost can therefore be said to have a particular relationship with the social order from which it was written: a
Anil’s Ghost and the Sri Lankan Civil War
Literary texts are ideological forms of social consciousness that arise out of the material foundations of society. Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost can therefore be said to have a particular relationship with the social order from which it was written: a
My Usual Bookstore Experience
In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Following this visual trail, you have forced your way through the shop past the thick barricade of Books You Haven’t Read, which were
My Usual Bookstore Experience
In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Following this visual trail, you have forced your way through the shop past the thick barricade of Books You Haven’t Read, which were
A Hasty Reaction to this Žižek Video
What I find here interesting is Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek’s elevation of postmodernism or what Fredric Jameson described 3 decades ago as the cultural logic or the superstructural form of contemporary capitalism to its defining or determining feature. I cannot
A Hasty Reaction to this Žižek Video
What I find here interesting is Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek’s elevation of postmodernism or what Fredric Jameson described 3 decades ago as the cultural logic or the superstructural form of contemporary capitalism to its defining or determining feature. I cannot
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