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Review of Mute Speech
Review of Mute Speech:
POSING FOOLISH QUESTIONS: WHAT IS LITERATURE?
Jacques Rancière's bold challenge opens Mute Speech (1998), one of his most rigorous works on aesthetics, only just recently published in English (2011). In this opening claim, Rancière echoes the famous, elusive question that Jean-Paul Sartre posed in 1949: what is literature? Gérard Genette (1993) offers a contemporary comment on the question itself: "a foolish question does not require an answer; by the same token, true wisdom might consist in not asking it all" (cited in Rancière 29). This formulation of "wisdom in the conditional mood" bothers Rancière: it derides questions even as it offers answers. To challenge this "wisdom," he presses Sartre's original question in a new direction: why are we expected to have a vague, working definition of literature but yet simultaneously discouraged from investigating it... Read More at The Church and Postmodern Culture blog: http://theotherjournal.com/churchandpomo/2013/01/31/posing-foolish-questions-what-is-literature/ |
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Post-Digital Mirror, 2006-2012
Post-Digital Mirror, 2006-2012: Extract from “A New Regime of Images” by Christine Buci-Glucksman / More >. [FR] …Le cinéma avait créé l'image mouvement et l'image en mouvement. Les nouvelles technologies dans leur usage artistique créent le fractal, le rhizome et le ...
Gramsci y la cuestión del Estado
Gramsci y la cuestión del Estado: Buci-Glucksman (1975), p.157, y Macciocchi (1973), p.79. 15. Conf. Perry Anderson (1982), p.110/111. 16. Perry Anderson, en su interesante trabajo LAS ANTINOMIAS DE GRAMSCI (1977), señala que en los cuadernos de ...
The Mumpsimus: "Peter Torrelli, Falling Apart" by Rebecca Makkai
The Mumpsimus: "Peter Torrelli, Falling Apart" by Rebecca Makkai: I've been reading through this year's Best American Short Stories , edited by Geraldine Brooks, little by little, almost randomly, not quick...
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