i am the son and heir (sun and air?)
morrissey brings all the boys to the yard. whatever that means. which isn't to say he doesn't. whatever that means, I'm sure morrissey does it.
E.L. Borgnine:
In examining a phenomenon like the Smiths...context is unusually important.
From Pop Art Antichrist: The Nietzche/Warhol Axis of Praxis
also, just found this one this evening:
Danto has observed that the discipline within both Philosophy and Comparative Literature--referred to alternately as philosophy as literature, philosophy of literature, or philosophy in literature--is fairly new. As is cultural studies and critical theory as a branch of the work of Literature. What we as critics often forget is that while there is much to be gained from approaching our work as Theory qua Theory, Theory qua Philosophy or Fiction qua Philosophy, there is even more to be gained from looking at Philosophy and Theory qua fiction. Forget whether the tenets of modal realism, queer theoretic phenomenology, gynocentric new historicism or post marxist neo-feminist hermeneutic theory are sound in some sort of ontologically amorphous way and approach them with the same suspension of disbelief you would grant someone like Dashiell Hammett or, even better, Philip K. Dick. Accept the world the text presents as able to define itself through literary means rather than through argument. It may not get us at what's objective and True in the "really real reality" sense of the term, but who cares? Look at all these great books we get out of the bargain. Plato becomes the greatest of Greek Tragedians. We find in Augustine and Abelard the best of memoir and epistelary fiction. WittgensteinsPhilosophical Investigations becomes the crowning work of the most masterful poet of the twentieth century. But most importantly, David Lewis's On the Plurality of Worlds becomes the greatest systems novel of the postmodern era.
From Continental Drift
E.L. Borgnine:
In examining a phenomenon like the Smiths...context is unusually important.
From Pop Art Antichrist: The Nietzche/Warhol Axis of Praxis
also, just found this one this evening:
Danto has observed that the discipline within both Philosophy and Comparative Literature--referred to alternately as philosophy as literature, philosophy of literature, or philosophy in literature--is fairly new. As is cultural studies and critical theory as a branch of the work of Literature. What we as critics often forget is that while there is much to be gained from approaching our work as Theory qua Theory, Theory qua Philosophy or Fiction qua Philosophy, there is even more to be gained from looking at Philosophy and Theory qua fiction. Forget whether the tenets of modal realism, queer theoretic phenomenology, gynocentric new historicism or post marxist neo-feminist hermeneutic theory are sound in some sort of ontologically amorphous way and approach them with the same suspension of disbelief you would grant someone like Dashiell Hammett or, even better, Philip K. Dick. Accept the world the text presents as able to define itself through literary means rather than through argument. It may not get us at what's objective and True in the "really real reality" sense of the term, but who cares? Look at all these great books we get out of the bargain. Plato becomes the greatest of Greek Tragedians. We find in Augustine and Abelard the best of memoir and epistelary fiction. WittgensteinsPhilosophical Investigations becomes the crowning work of the most masterful poet of the twentieth century. But most importantly, David Lewis's On the Plurality of Worlds becomes the greatest systems novel of the postmodern era.
From Continental Drift