The Constructivist questions the benefit of color-blindness, and proposes thus -
I want to question the assumption that to “stop” doing any of these things is a simple and easy process. I want to question the assumption so endemic to “color-blind” thinking on race that the best way to fight racism is to attack the [...]
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Back!, at the: there I have just running the new Queens of the Stone Age record, Era Vulgaris, with a three week or so delay- and oh, are these guitars ever so wonderfully bold! Stephen Thomas Erlewine, over at allmusic, takes Josh Homme outside the time stream and makes him a temporal refugee, [...]
April is the cruellest month? No, June is!
Browsing through the pages of Amazon to find ISBN numbers for the reading materials I’ll use in my winter class, what do I see if not that little preciousness here, titled Imaginäres Museum [Imaginary Museum, that is]? – an anthology on artworks and their representation. Unfortunately it doesn’t say just what Lovecraft story is included, [...]
Ménage à trois, deuxieme fois
Both protagonists envision the(ir) end, both enroll the audience in their telling of it and take them all the way through it: the end, not necessarily in an apocalyptic sense (though in Moby Dick it is as much as that), is a shared experience.
This is radically different in Lovecraft. The phrase borders on the pleonastic.
One [...]
Ménage à trois, premiere fois
It is possible to read these passages I quoted in my last post, from Moby Dick and Steppenwolf, as social critiques: in fact, how not so? They are positing their speakers in an unmitigated opposition to society, squarely, and for very similar motives: to escape the drudgeries of modern life, Ishmael and Haller take off [...]
Participation Mystique, some
When I thought about and out of my last post, it came to me that both Melville and Lovecraft were somewhat thwarted in their attempts to reach out the invitation into the (participation) mystique – quite obviously thwarted. Both are posthumous authors, accepted for the full span of their authorial creativity only in posthumous existence. [...]
Shall we trade monsters?
Upon the heel of the last scene, Melville and Lovecraft enter the blog, mutual benedictions on their lips.
I’ll add a few more words on Melville’s Moby Dick, will then segue the discussion into more theoretical waters, until it finally arrives at Lovecraft – Melville, of all people, as he is closer to Lovecraft in pace, [...]
Geek toy in inconspicuous wrapper
At metroactive, Annalee Newitz is giving an inside account of her rite of passage into Wikipedia editing, and witnesses an odd occurence, Lovecraft-impingent, as it were -
And then, while I was at it, I re-created another entry recently deleted for not being “notable” enough—that of Sonia Greene, a pulp–fiction writer and publisher of the 1920s [...]
That boar was a pig
I want a porkchop, real bad. And an assault rifle to defend myself against these unruly giant pigs that keep terrorizing the world. Sows like this one. A nine-foot-hog the shape of a sperm whale, minus the flukes and the sperm, and minus the size.
I can’t point out exactly just what is unnerving me [...]
