May. 17th, 2016
Orphan Black Redux
May. 17th, 2016 11:31 amWell so far i am totally enjoying season 3 of Orphan Black. Tatiana Maslany is awesome. I am amazed how she does all these different characters - the cloned sisters. Just amazing. I am up to episode 8 but for some reason Putlocker or Shush seem to be having problems loading from ep.8 onward due to lost file or "broken mirror" problems. I also watched the latest DC Legends Of Tomorrow ,with Arthur Darvill (Rory to Who fans) in the lead role, and certainly keeoing me transfixed to watch the next episode.
As already mentioned by
cmcmck the trains were up the swanny today due to a broken down train on the bridge section coming into Rochester from Strood. I was at Teynham station waiting thirty minutes for a train that should have arrived there at 13:17. It was worse for people trying to get to London in the opposite direction with a good 45 minute delay. At last it stayed relatively sunny.
I sold a few books at my usual haunt. I held some back knowing that i would find it difficult to part company with them. I then picked up ten ounces of pipe tobacco and returned back by train. This time down to a twenty minute delay.
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I sold a few books at my usual haunt. I held some back knowing that i would find it difficult to part company with them. I then picked up ten ounces of pipe tobacco and returned back by train. This time down to a twenty minute delay.
Jonathan Culler "Literary Theory : A Very Short Introduction" (Oxford U.P)

This very Short Introduction book gives you a quick overview on the importance of literary theory. It is a little introduction on the history and the progression of literary studies. It was interesting how the book looked at literary criticism as a field of studies that is losing a battle to cultural studies. Even though this field stems from the study of literature, people seem more interested in studying music, movies and TV than literature. Cultural studies seem to be pushing out literary studies and, sadly, the two fields may merge.
I was glad that Culler organized the work thematically rather than by critical schools. Given that many of the best theorists overlap in many fields - is Judith Butler a psychoanalyst or feminist? is Althusser a structuralist or Marxist? and what is Foucault? - I think Culler's approach best represents how theory actually works. After all, poststructuralism, Marxism, and psychoanalysis tend to do much the same thing in a theoretical context: they all call 'the natural' (of language, of the state and economics, of the personality) into question and thereby transform the self into subject. That denaturalization is the key difference from what came before, not the differences between, say, a politically informed and a merely linguistic poststructuralism.
Moreover, even though it originally appeared about 10 years ago, its refusal to split theory into various schools preserved it from obsolescence. The pure Lacanian died out in 1999 or so, and now the best critics draw on everything.
Highly recommended.

This very Short Introduction book gives you a quick overview on the importance of literary theory. It is a little introduction on the history and the progression of literary studies. It was interesting how the book looked at literary criticism as a field of studies that is losing a battle to cultural studies. Even though this field stems from the study of literature, people seem more interested in studying music, movies and TV than literature. Cultural studies seem to be pushing out literary studies and, sadly, the two fields may merge.
I was glad that Culler organized the work thematically rather than by critical schools. Given that many of the best theorists overlap in many fields - is Judith Butler a psychoanalyst or feminist? is Althusser a structuralist or Marxist? and what is Foucault? - I think Culler's approach best represents how theory actually works. After all, poststructuralism, Marxism, and psychoanalysis tend to do much the same thing in a theoretical context: they all call 'the natural' (of language, of the state and economics, of the personality) into question and thereby transform the self into subject. That denaturalization is the key difference from what came before, not the differences between, say, a politically informed and a merely linguistic poststructuralism.
Moreover, even though it originally appeared about 10 years ago, its refusal to split theory into various schools preserved it from obsolescence. The pure Lacanian died out in 1999 or so, and now the best critics draw on everything.
Highly recommended.
Extra Music Selection
May. 17th, 2016 08:24 pmRocking out, then bliss , the out again -
Sonic Youth - Stones
PLAY LOUD!
1 Giant Leap - I Love The Way You Dream (Feat, Asha Bhosle & Michael Stipe)
Awesome bliss out music!
( More music here )
Sonic Youth - Stones
PLAY LOUD!
1 Giant Leap - I Love The Way You Dream (Feat, Asha Bhosle & Michael Stipe)
Awesome bliss out music!
( More music here )