Posted in Art, books on Jun 21st, 2007 10 Comments »
In an excellent article (sub req) on the Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin in the latest edition of the London Review of Books, Terry Eagleton explains why the ‘once obscure Soviet philologist is now a star of the postmodern West’ and, in doing so, provides a very handy critique of postmodernism.
Just as Bakhtin’s […]
Posted in Art, music on May 31st, 2007 1 Comment »
Last time I spent a couple of weeks in our over-moneyed wee island, I ended up flying home to France on a Sunday. Consequently, I managed to bury my disgruntlement, on the plane, in that day’s copy of the Observer. Mark E Smith’s analysis is, once again, spot on - this proves me, gan dabht, […]
Posted in Art on Dec 18th, 2006 No Comments »
A very long time ago on this blog, there was mention of a certain Twenty Major and his almost Proustian interest* in the naming of female genitalia. In a spirit of digression, this reminded me of a poetry class back in college where the brandname of ‘Silk Cut’ cigarettes was referred to.
In Elizabethan times a […]
