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Barth Meets Borges in the Funhouse “It was about this time when I carne across the writings of the great Argentine Jorge Luis Borges, whose temper was so wedded to the short story form, that like Chekhov, he never wrote a novel, and whose unorthodox brilliance transformed the short story form. Writers Iearn from the…
Dawkins Review of Intellectual Impostures Sokal hoax stuff from Sokal’s own NYU web 1.0 page, I think.
“In the early ’60s a Yoyodyne executive living near LA and located somewhere in the corporate root-system above supervisor but below vice-president, having found himself, at age 39, automated out of a job. Having been since age 7 rigidly instructed in an eschatology that pointed nowhere but to a presidency and death, trained to do…
詹姆遜與中國後現代理論的緣起 西方文化 > >
Hayden WHITE “Postmodernism and Historiography” Parerga: Postmodernist historical thought is present-oriented and is primarily interested in the past only insofar as it can be used to serve the present. Thus, Lyotard is only half-right in finding the origin of postmodernism in the rejection of the great schemata (‘grands recits’) of universal history which purported to…
A Manifesto for The New Sincerity | Maximum Fun Word came down from America’s commentary class around September 13th, 2001. Irony was dead. In what would come to be called “The Post 9-11 World,” there would be no room for that particularly distasteful form of discourse. It was to be replaced by soft, sweet sincerity.…
Sincerity, Not Irony, Is Our Age’s Ethos Cultural critics love hypothesizing about hipsters. And certainly hipsters make for useful lab rats if you’re interested in the culture of young, gentrifying, trendy, affluent, and white college graduates. But it’s easy to let this hypothesizing go too far, and you get into trouble when you try to…