ANTIFESTO
No art without art, no text without text.
- No mention of institutional affiliation.
- No discussion of the publishing industry.
- No discussion of academia or academic careers.
- No attacks on critical theory.
- No arguments with or over print media.
- No blog triumphalism.
- No "literary" vs. "non-literary" classifications.
- No arguments from authority.
- No false objectivity.
- No aping of academic prose styles.
- No aping of popular prose styles.
- No smugness.
- No discussion of this manifesto.
[Thanks to EW for the title and JBF for the runner-up.]
Comment
Thomas Hardy and the Emotion-Sensation Connection | Brendel on Furtwängler
cool. I’m in.
— antonia · May 10, 01:49 PM · #
Philosophy of Waggish? I don’t know what to make of these rules.
— Jake · May 10, 04:50 PM · #
Attention all commenters on this post: you are in violation of rule #13 and will be summarily deleted.
Except for me. Because this is a meta-comment. Meta-commenters allowed.
— Miranda · May 11, 01:05 AM · #
since when is an affirmation a discussion?
— antonia · May 12, 09:18 AM · #
No comment.
— nnyhav · May 13, 02:43 PM · #
In avoiding Rule 13, any such affirmation would be forced to violate Rule 12 and possibly Rule 8.
This analysis is offered with the caveat that it violates Rule 9.
— Ray Davis · May 13, 02:46 PM · #
I propose: #14. No nostalgia about the “smell of books” or laments about the decline of reading.
— Robert Nagle · Jun 4, 04:34 AM · #