ch a pop-culture phenomenon as he is a political one. What Adorno identified as the erasure of the “borderline between culture and empirical reality” is endemic on social media.
The failure of Facebook to halt the proliferation of fake news during the campaign season should have surprised no one; the local hirelings of logic are too enamored of their algorithms—and of the revenue they generate—to intervene. From the start, Silic
The Frankfurt School Knew Trump Was Coming
The failure of Facebook to halt the proliferation of fake news during the campaign season should have surprised no one; the local hirelings of logic are too enamored of their algorithms—and of the revenue they generate—to intervene. From the start, Silic
The Frankfurt School Knew Trump Was Coming
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Esther Grether Dyer was, like Bacon, a borderline alcoholic and similarly took obsessive care with his appearance. Pale-faced and a chain-smoker,
Dyer typically confronted his daily hangovers by drinking again. His compact and athletic build belied a docile and inwardly tortured personality. The art critic Michael Peppiatt descri
Francis Bacon (artist) - Wikipedia
Dyer typically confronted his daily hangovers by drinking again. His compact and athletic build belied a docile and inwardly tortured personality. The art critic Michael Peppiatt descri
Francis Bacon (artist) - Wikipedia
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joining the day after its opening in 1948. He was 'adopted' by Belcher as a 'daughter', and allowed free drinks and £10 a week to bring in friends and rich patrons. In 1948 he met John Minton, a regular at Muriel's, as were the painters Lucian Freud, Frank Auerbach, Patrick Swift and the Vogue photographer, John Deakin. In 1950, Bacon met the art critic David Sylvester, then best known for his writing on Henry Moore and Alberto Giacome
Francis Bacon (artist) - Wikipedia
Francis Bacon (artist) - Wikipedia
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proprietor. Belcher, who had run a club called the Music-box in Leicester Square during the war, had secured a 3 – 11pm drinking licence for the Colony Room bar as a private-members club; public houses had to, by law, close at 2:30 pm. Bacon was a founding member, joining the day after its opening in 1948. He was 'adopted' by Belcher as a 'daughter', and allowed free drinks and £10 a week to bring in friends and r
Francis Bacon (artist) - Wikipedia
Francis Bacon (artist) - Wikipedia
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ange it somehow, or to dispute with it. The malcontent is an objective or quasi-objective voice that comments on the play's concerns as though somehow above or beyond them. The concept has much to do with the Renaissance idea of 'humours' and a surfeit of 'black bile' which caused melancholy. Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Malcontent&oldid=788983815"
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ople’s actual concerns with a common decency. The fact that such an approach amounts to no less than a major shift in our political space is a sad sign of the times we live in.
But it is also a new confirmation of old Hegel’s claim that, sometimes, naïve outspokenness is the most devastating and cunning of all strategies. The secret to Corbyn's success was rejecting PC culture as much as he rejected rabble-rousing populism | The Independent
But it is also a new confirmation of old Hegel’s claim that, sometimes, naïve outspokenness is the most devastating and cunning of all strategies. The secret to Corbyn's success was rejecting PC culture as much as he rejected rabble-rousing populism | The Independent
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on. Today, vulgar language is an almost exclusive prerogative of the radical right, so that the left finds itself in the surprising position of defender of decency and public manners. Unfortunately, the leftist-liberal public space is also more and more dominated by the rules of tweet culture: short snaps, retorts, sarcastic or outraged remarks, with no space for multiple steps of a line of argumentation. One passage (a sentence, even part of it) is cut out and reacted to. The stance that sustains these tweet rejoinders is a mixture of self-righteousness, political correctness and brutal sarca
The secret to Corbyn's success was rejecting PC culture as much as he rejected rabble-rousing populism | The Independent
The secret to Corbyn's success was rejecting PC culture as much as he rejected rabble-rousing populism | The Independent
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rated the market. And with the end of postmodernism’s playfulness and affectation, we are better placed to construct a literature that engages earnestly with real-world problems. This new literature can, in good faith, examine complex and ever-shifting crises – of racial inequality, capitalism and climate change – to which it is easy to close one’s eyes. Alison Gibbons is Reader in Contemporary Stylistics at Sheffield Hallam University and an editor of Notes on Metam
Postmodernism is dead. What comes next? – TheTLS
Postmodernism is dead. What comes next? – TheTLS
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tory, it is punctuated with interruptions. The narrator repeatedly interjects with reporting clauses and narratorial intrusions, such as “Noor said, although not in these words”. The device is postmodern, recursively framing and foregrounding the story in a story, yet it serves not as a self-reflexive affectation; but rather as a way of showing the hermeneutic function of stories in our memories, in our narratives of self and in our relationships with others. There is a narrative interruption too, when Ben is called away from the mangoes. Not yet knowing how Noor’s story ends, Ben wrongly jumps to the conclusion that the story is about Islamo
Postmodernism is dead. What comes next? – TheTLS
Postmodernism is dead. What comes next? – TheTLS
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