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In connection with my Anonymity as Culture articles on Triple Canopy, I will be speaking with Gabriella Coleman and James Grimmelmann this Wednesday the 23rd at 7pm in Brooklyn about internet culture, anonymity, politics, law, ...
Gilbert Ryle’s Plato
Plato’s Progress is not just for philosophers. It is a detective story, and a very entertaining one. Mid-century arch-analytic philosopher Gilbert Ryle skillfully constructed it as such, and it’s a shame this book is so ...
“Obscene abuse of a randy old hag”: Horace’s Epode 8 in Translation
Coarsely abusive sexual language is an early iambic tradition. Daniel Garrison Besides being Augustus’s favored poet and composing immaculate and subtle Odes, Horace wrote some rougher-hewn pieces in his series of Epodes (30 BC). The ...
George Kennedy on Comparative Rhetoric
George Kennedy is a brilliant scholar of Greek and Latin rhetoric, but he also wrote a slim book, Comparative Rhetoric, that makes a better go than most studies at being a genuinely comparative analysis of rhetoric ...
Wittgenstein on Freud
Laura Quinney, in her book Literary Power and the Criteria of Truth, mentions some of Wittgenstein’s perspicacious remarks on Freud. Since I’d earlier talked about Ernest Gellner’s criticism of Freud as well as his criticism of ...
The Profoundest Profundities Ever Propounded
Just to contrast with Christine Brooke-Rose’s criticism. Language can only begin with the void; no fullness, no certainty can ever speak; something essential is lacking in anyone who expresses himself. Negation is tied to language. ...
The Criticism of Christine Brooke-Rose
Novelist and critic Christine Brooke-Rose passed away recently. Chicago Blog has a good round-up of the many tributes to her. I had earlier reviewed Xorandor critically, but with great respect for what she had tried to ...
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