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Wednesday 29 October 2008
"Like Ayn Rand citing Lenin"
Via The Wooden Spoon:
At the Times Literary Supplement, David Hawkes reviews Russell A. Berman’s Fiction Sets You Free, a capitalist dialectical materialist critique of literature. "Like the most doctrinaire dialectical materialist, he insists that cultural trends are epiphenomenal reflections of economic interests. Anti-Americanism is really anti-capitalism, and in Fiction Sets You Free, Berman suggests that anti-capitalism is the true source of an intellectual anti-humanism which opposes imagination, enterprise, even literature itself." It's painful just to see the book reviewed, but I expect these kinds of theories to start popping up all over. Berman apparently tries to cite Theodore Adorno as a predecessor of pro-capitalist literary theory. This is insane. It's like Ayn Rand citing Lenin as a great influence. The inmates are loose! Release the hounds!
Posted by Mark Thwaite
Tags: literary criticism, politics
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Wednesday 29 October 2008
PUP blog
Princeton University Press "is delighted to announce the inauguration of their blog. The Princeton University Press blog is a new forum that brings original content and expert commentary from our distinguished authors and editors straight to you—without the paper cuts."
Posted by Mark Thwaite
Tags: blogosphere
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Wednesday 29 October 2008
Moby Lives
The Moby Lives blog is up and running once again. Welcome back!
News of The Lemoine Affair is very good to hear about.
Posted by Mark Thwaite
Tags: blogosphere, book news
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Wednesday 29 October 2008
Apocalypse any day now!
And when you've given up puzzling over that, this far more practical website will help you decide whether you should be booking that next holiday.
Posted by Rowan Wilson
Tags: blogosphere, rsb
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Wednesday 29 October 2008
Apocalypse now!
Infinite Thought, fast becoming my favourite blog, is currently running an occasional series of some of the finest philosophers/theorists on the financial crisis. Currently unearthed are Badiou, Virilio and Jacques Alain Miller.
Also IT has been attending numerous panels and discussions on the crisis and provides a handy digest of the of the views of the likes of Chris Harman, Peter Gowan, Alex Callinicos, Alan Freeman and Robin Blackburn.
Posted by Rowan Wilson
Tags: blogosphere, philosophy, politics
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