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...disgust at the slaughter of World War I; the impulse to negate all culture was an impulse to break down a society capable of such carnage. Dada art (Codrescu’s book is all words) often took images of technology and applied them to human forms??a reaction, to be sure, against the “posthuman” soldiers who returned from home, unrecognizable from the horrors of war. Codrescu hesitates to clarify such a fact because, despite his book’s claims at a “Guide,” it never actually...
...something very exciting about being in London around 1910, just as modernism is about to take off—crazy Ezra Pound has come over from America and is running around town, saying, “we’re going to tear up the old forms??.12.FM: The issue of power between critic and writer is an interesting one; who runs thing in the realm of things domestic? If your (Lucien) mom and dad were yelling contradictory orders, whom would you follow?JW: Who is in charge at home, Lucien?Lucien: [silence]JW: So both...
...Electronic dance music, in its different forms??from techno, to house, to electro—has already taken over the club scene in Europe and the Mediterranean region. The world’s top clubs are concentrated in this area, and for good reason. The music played there supplies a unique beat that slowly builds up, tantalizing the senses, before erupting with euphoria, bringing together everybody in the crowd in musical rapture. Often the simple works best—a common theme in techno music, for example, is the repetition of a few lyrics, over and over...
...patronizing the arts, namely how benefactors can potentially stifle the creative freedom of artists. To a small audience, Garber said, “The arts are doubly patronized: we are supporting artists, but we are not granting them serious partnership.” She explained that art of all forms??visual, performance and literary—is often seen as recreation and not as serious work. Garber’s new book, “Patronizing the Arts,” came out earlier this year and takes this topic as its focus. The risk of suppressing...
...which features books including Dostoevsky’s “The Brothers Karamazov” and Zola’s “L’Assommoir” in translation, is a good start. According to the syllabus, students study the novel in its different forms??as a “novel of consciousness” or a “novel of society,” for example. Students who aren’t fluent in Russian or French and would never have taken a departmental class studying these authors in the original language...