Lloyd Lemons links to B. L. Ochman’s “How to Write Killer Blog Posts and More Compelling Comments” on her What’s Next Blog. Ochman’s advice is some of the best I’ve read lately, suggesting the deliberate nature of blogging and stressing audience expectations. I can’t follow all of her advice all of the time, like limiting [...]
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Paul Graham, in his essay “The Age of the Esssay,” provides a thorough, if somewhat simplistic and generalizing, view of the history of Western academia and the genesis of the essay that’s taught in school and what he calls a “real essay.” While many of Graham’s points are made eloquently and much of his insight [...]
Isn’t It Ironic?
Well, maybe, but probably not. Zoe Williams’ article from the Guardian (leave it to the Brits) examines this popularly misused word in our ironically post-ironic culture. From the article: But irony as part of the British literary tradition doesn’t, generally speaking, commence with Romantic irony, but rather with the device that has its roots in [...]
The Lessons of Hell
At his lowest point as a man and hero, Odysseus looks inward — away from the living — in order to see just how he fits into the world of the living, how he got to the position he’s in, and what he can to extricate himself from hell.
Dissertation Abstract
The posthuman, though the mutilating, traumatizing, and infectious nature of our current technology, has begun to assert its figuration in contemporary cultural texts, like literature, cinema, and music. I argue that as technology catches up with our vision, it will necessarily a/effect the evolution of the human body.
