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  1. Adding to my Books of Interest list:

    The Frenchmen: Or, My Life in Theory by Emily Eakin

    From Dayna Tortorici's write-up in the New Yorker:

    "At last, representation for the theory-pilled girl! Part memoir, part biography, part philosophy primer, "The Frenchmen" interleaves Eakin's bildungsroman with careful close readings and details of her subjects' lives. Lacan, Althusser, Barthes, Foucault, Deleuze, Guattari, Derrida, and de Man are all present as mononymic embodiments of their thought. But they are also present as themselves -- as Jacques, Louis, Roland, Michel, Gilles, Felix, Jacques, and Paul. [...] Along the way Eakin introduces their intellectual forefathers [...] and, at the edges, even some women: Simone de Beauvoir, Simone Weil, Luce Irigaray."

    #Philosophy #Bookstodon #CriticalTheory #LiteraryTheory #EmilyEakin

  2. Adding to my Books of Interest list:

    The Frenchmen: Or, My Life in Theory by Emily Eakin

    From Dayna Tortorici's write-up in the New Yorker:

    "At last, representation for the theory-pilled girl! Part memoir, part biography, part philosophy primer, "The Frenchmen" interleaves Eakin's bildungsroman with careful close readings and details of her subjects' lives. Lacan, Althusser, Barthes, Foucault, Deleuze, Guattari, Derrida, and de Man are all present as mononymic embodiments of their thought. But they are also present as themselves -- as Jacques, Louis, Roland, Michel, Gilles, Felix, Jacques, and Paul. [...] Along the way Eakin introduces their intellectual forefathers [...] and, at the edges, even some women: Simone de Beauvoir, Simone Weil, Luce Irigaray."

    #Philosophy #Bookstodon #CriticalTheory #LiteraryTheory #EmilyEakin

  3. Adding to my Books of Interest list:

    The Frenchmen: Or, My Life in Theory by Emily Eakin

    From Dayna Tortorici's write-up in the New Yorker:

    "At last, representation for the theory-pilled girl! Part memoir, part biography, part philosophy primer, "The Frenchmen" interleaves Eakin's bildungsroman with careful close readings and details of her subjects' lives. Lacan, Althusser, Barthes, Foucault, Deleuze, Guattari, Derrida, and de Man are all present as mononymic embodiments of their thought. But they are also present as themselves -- as Jacques, Louis, Roland, Michel, Gilles, Felix, Jacques, and Paul. [...] Along the way Eakin introduces their intellectual forefathers [...] and, at the edges, even some women: Simone de Beauvoir, Simone Weil, Luce Irigaray."

    #Philosophy #Bookstodon #CriticalTheory #LiteraryTheory #EmilyEakin

  4. Adding to my Books of Interest list:

    The Frenchmen: Or, My Life in Theory by Emily Eakin

    From Dayna Tortorici's write-up in the New Yorker:

    "At last, representation for the theory-pilled girl! Part memoir, part biography, part philosophy primer, "The Frenchmen" interleaves Eakin's bildungsroman with careful close readings and details of her subjects' lives. Lacan, Althusser, Barthes, Foucault, Deleuze, Guattari, Derrida, and de Man are all present as mononymic embodiments of their thought. But they are also present as themselves -- as Jacques, Louis, Roland, Michel, Gilles, Felix, Jacques, and Paul. [...] Along the way Eakin introduces their intellectual forefathers [...] and, at the edges, even some women: Simone de Beauvoir, Simone Weil, Luce Irigaray."

    #Philosophy #Bookstodon #CriticalTheory #LiteraryTheory #EmilyEakin

  5. HALPERN: "AUTHOR" CONCEPT UNDER SCRUTINY IN PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE

    Armando Halpern questions the simple meaning of 'author' in a new philosophy article. He says texts are made by many, not just one person.

    #Philosophy, #Author, #Writing, #Halpern, #LiteraryTheory

    newsletter.tf/philosopher-halp

  6. HALPERN: "AUTHOR" CONCEPT UNDER SCRUTINY IN PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE

    Armando Halpern questions the simple meaning of 'author' in a new philosophy article. He says texts are made by many, not just one person.

    #Philosophy, #Author, #Writing, #Halpern, #LiteraryTheory

    newsletter.tf/philosopher-halp

  7. HALPERN: "AUTHOR" CONCEPT UNDER SCRUTINY IN PHILOSOPHICAL DISCOURSE

    Armando Halpern questions the simple meaning of 'author' in a new philosophy article. He says texts are made by many, not just one person.

    #Philosophy, #Author, #Writing, #Halpern, #LiteraryTheory

    newsletter.tf/philosopher-halp

  8. A philosopher says the idea of one 'author' for a book is old-fashioned. He explains that many people and ideas help make a text.

    #Philosophy, #Author, #Writing, #Halpern, #LiteraryTheory
    newsletter.tf/philosopher-halp

  9. A philosopher says the idea of one 'author' for a book is old-fashioned. He explains that many people and ideas help make a text.

    #Philosophy, #Author, #Writing, #Halpern, #LiteraryTheory
    newsletter.tf/philosopher-halp

  10. A philosopher says the idea of one 'author' for a book is old-fashioned. He explains that many people and ideas help make a text.

    #Philosophy, #Author, #Writing, #Halpern, #LiteraryTheory
    newsletter.tf/philosopher-halp

  11. One of the lawyers noted that this radical rejection of 'bourgeois' conceptions of art was actually aligning #LiteraryTheory with the interests of #BigTech #AIFutures.

    And of course the critique of #Copyright as essentially a tool for turning creative production into bourgeois #Capitalism is quite credible.

    But we can question copyright and resist AI at the same time! Because they have the same fault: the capture of labour value by capital.

    (4/)

  12. One of the lawyers noted that this radical rejection of 'bourgeois' conceptions of art was actually aligning #LiteraryTheory with the interests of #BigTech #AIFutures.

    And of course the critique of #Copyright as essentially a tool for turning creative production into bourgeois #Capitalism is quite credible.

    But we can question copyright and resist AI at the same time! Because they have the same fault: the capture of labour value by capital.

    (4/)

  13. One of the lawyers noted that this radical rejection of 'bourgeois' conceptions of art was actually aligning #LiteraryTheory with the interests of #BigTech #AIFutures.

    And of course the critique of #Copyright as essentially a tool for turning creative production into bourgeois #Capitalism is quite credible.

    But we can question copyright and resist AI at the same time! Because they have the same fault: the capture of labour value by capital.

    (4/)

  14. One of the lawyers noted that this radical rejection of 'bourgeois' conceptions of art was actually aligning #LiteraryTheory with the interests of #BigTech #AIFutures.

    And of course the critique of #Copyright as essentially a tool for turning creative production into bourgeois #Capitalism is quite credible.

    But we can question copyright and resist AI at the same time! Because they have the same fault: the capture of labour value by capital.

    (4/)

  15. #WritersCoffeeClub 20 Aug - Name something unexpected you had to learn for a work.

    "Some texts are born literary, some achieve literariness, and some have literariness thrust upon them.
    There is no 'essence' of literature whatsoever.
    Literature, in the sense of a set of works of assured and unalterable value, distinguished by certain shared inherent properties, does not exist."

    #TerryEagleton #LiteraryTheory

  16. #WritersCoffeeClub 20 Aug - Name something unexpected you had to learn for a work.

    "Some texts are born literary, some achieve literariness, and some have literariness thrust upon them.
    There is no 'essence' of literature whatsoever.
    Literature, in the sense of a set of works of assured and unalterable value, distinguished by certain shared inherent properties, does not exist."

    #TerryEagleton #LiteraryTheory

  17. #WritersCoffeeClub 20 Aug - Name something unexpected you had to learn for a work.

    "Some texts are born literary, some achieve literariness, and some have literariness thrust upon them.
    There is no 'essence' of literature whatsoever.
    Literature, in the sense of a set of works of assured and unalterable value, distinguished by certain shared inherent properties, does not exist."

    #TerryEagleton #LiteraryTheory

  18. #WritersCoffeeClub 20 Aug - Name something unexpected you had to learn for a work.

    "Some texts are born literary, some achieve literariness, and some have literariness thrust upon them.
    There is no 'essence' of literature whatsoever.
    Literature, in the sense of a set of works of assured and unalterable value, distinguished by certain shared inherent properties, does not exist."

    #TerryEagleton #LiteraryTheory

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    I've just finished reading Herbert Marcuse's "The Aesthetic Dimension: Towards a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics".

    Marcuse makes a powerful case for the the autonomy of art, as neither an escapist refuge nor a simple tool or superstructural reflection of social forces, but as a radical emancipatory force in its own right.

    Even though proponents of the orthodox Marxist aesthetics he criticizes must be as rare as hen's teeth today, his argument, mutatis mutandis, can still be read with profit today by all on the left.

    I read it in hard copy, but it's short enough to read online as a PDF:

    marginalutility.org/wp-content

    The work was originally published in German under the title "Die Permanenz
    der Kunst: Wider eine bestimmte Marxistische Aesthetik" in 1977.

    In that same year....

    #Philosophy #Aesthetics #Marcuse #FrankfurtSchool #CriticalTheory #Marxism #PhilosophyOfArt #LiteraryTheory

  20. 🧵 1/2

    I've just finished reading Herbert Marcuse's "The Aesthetic Dimension: Towards a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics".

    Marcuse makes a powerful case for the the autonomy of art, as neither an escapist refuge nor a simple tool or superstructural reflection of social forces, but as a radical emancipatory force in its own right.

    Even though proponents of the orthodox Marxist aesthetics he criticizes must be as rare as hen's teeth today, his argument, mutatis mutandis, can still be read with profit today by all on the left.

    I read it in hard copy, but it's short enough to read online as a PDF:

    marginalutility.org/wp-content

    The work was originally published in German under the title "Die Permanenz
    der Kunst: Wider eine bestimmte Marxistische Aesthetik" in 1977.

    In that same year....

    #Philosophy #Aesthetics #Marcuse #FrankfurtSchool #CriticalTheory #Marxism #PhilosophyOfArt #LiteraryTheory

  21. 🧵 1/2

    I've just finished reading Herbert Marcuse's "The Aesthetic Dimension: Towards a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics".

    Marcuse makes a powerful case for the the autonomy of art, as neither an escapist refuge nor a simple tool or superstructural reflection of social forces, but as a radical emancipatory force in its own right.

    Even though proponents of the orthodox Marxist aesthetics he criticizes must be as rare as hen's teeth today, his argument, mutatis mutandis, can still be read with profit today by all on the left.

    I read it in hard copy, but it's short enough to read online as a PDF:

    marginalutility.org/wp-content

    The work was originally published in German under the title "Die Permanenz
    der Kunst: Wider eine bestimmte Marxistische Aesthetik" in 1977.

    In that same year....

    #Philosophy #Aesthetics #Marcuse #FrankfurtSchool #CriticalTheory #Marxism #PhilosophyOfArt #LiteraryTheory

  22. 🧵 1/2

    I've just finished reading Herbert Marcuse's "The Aesthetic Dimension: Towards a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics".

    Marcuse makes a powerful case for the the autonomy of art, as neither an escapist refuge nor a simple tool or superstructural reflection of social forces, but as a radical emancipatory force in its own right.

    Even though proponents of the orthodox Marxist aesthetics he criticizes must be as rare as hen's teeth today, his argument, mutatis mutandis, can still be read with profit today by all on the left.

    I read it in hard copy, but it's short enough to read online as a PDF:

    marginalutility.org/wp-content

    The work was originally published in German under the title "Die Permanenz
    der Kunst: Wider eine bestimmte Marxistische Aesthetik" in 1977.

    In that same year....

    #Philosophy #Aesthetics #Marcuse #FrankfurtSchool #CriticalTheory #Marxism #PhilosophyOfArt #LiteraryTheory

  23. Die Jahrestagung des Käte Hamburger Kollegs CURE wird sich vom 4. bis 6. Juni 2025 an der Universität des Saarlandes dem Thema "Reparation in an Era of Irreparability? Theoretical Approaches" widmen.

    📌Weitere Informationen:
    avldigital.de/vernetzen/detail #fidavlnews @litstudies @germanistik #postcolonial @italianstudies #LiteraryTheory #LiteraturePolitics

  24. Die Jahrestagung des Käte Hamburger Kollegs CURE wird sich vom 4. bis 6. Juni 2025 an der Universität des Saarlandes dem Thema "Reparation in an Era of Irreparability? Theoretical Approaches" widmen.

    📌Weitere Informationen:
    avldigital.de/vernetzen/detail #fidavlnews @litstudies @germanistik #postcolonial @italianstudies #LiteraryTheory #LiteraturePolitics

  25. Die Jahrestagung des Käte Hamburger Kollegs CURE wird sich vom 4. bis 6. Juni 2025 an der Universität des Saarlandes dem Thema "Reparation in an Era of Irreparability? Theoretical Approaches" widmen.

    📌Weitere Informationen:
    avldigital.de/vernetzen/detail #fidavlnews @litstudies @germanistik #postcolonial @italianstudies #LiteraryTheory #LiteraturePolitics

  26. Die Jahrestagung des Käte Hamburger Kollegs CURE wird sich vom 4. bis 6. Juni 2025 an der Universität des Saarlandes dem Thema "Reparation in an Era of Irreparability? Theoretical Approaches" widmen.

    📌Weitere Informationen:
    avldigital.de/vernetzen/detail #fidavlnews @litstudies @germanistik #postcolonial @italianstudies #LiteraryTheory #LiteraturePolitics

  27. My second pixel practice of the day is about the literary concept of "Locus Amoenus", an archetypical utopian place. The poet Ovid says that if there's a Locus Amoenus, there must be also a "Locus Terribilis", where gruesome and dreadful things happen. So I decided to represent my vision of both concepts. 160 × 144 pixels. #locus #literaryTheory #literature #illustration #diagram #volcano #LocusAmoenus #LocusHorribilis #utopia #dystopia #pixelart #ドット絵 @pixel_dailies