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I Peggior Fabbri: Millenial Versifiers and the Decline of Poetry
For today’s post we at Generation Bubble hand the reins over to a guest editor, a certain individual who came to us looking to air his opinion on contemporary poetry. Emboldened by our tangle with poet Annie Finch a month ago, we were eager to jump back into this subject to see what further controversy [...]
An Embarrassment of Riches: Digital Humanists and the Rise of “Distant Reading”
Over at the blog, Clio Machine, proprietor Sterling Fluharty surveys the ongoing debate concerning the humanities’ relative worth in what Zbigniew Brzezinski famously dubbed “the Technotronic Era.” On this issue, Generation Bubble maintains the position that the humanities — or, more specifically, the protocols and procedures of academic humanities — find themselves in jeopardy; because [...]
Le Bateau Ivre (Aphorisms for a Sunny Thursday)
Without misanthropy there can be no certainty. * * * Excellence is a result of making a virtue of necessity; mediocrity, of making a necessity of virtue. * * * The only burden one bears is that of his own potential. Related Posts:I Peggior Fabbri: Millenial Versifiers and the Decline of PoetrySuper-Surprise Me: Boston University [...]
Synchin' Academic Thinkin': Crooked Timber's Harry Brighouse on Communication across Humanities Disciplines
Harry Brighouse at the blog Crooked Timber offers some remarks occasioned by an interview in The Chronicle of Higher Education with Michèle Lamont, author of the recently published How Professors Think, the contents of which Brighouse summarizes thusly: The book is based on interviews of academics who serve on funding panels, and teases out the [...]
Overheard at the Annual Literature and Deconstruction Conference
Drives and flows, farts, bursts of feeling — Features of our featured speaker, our paragon. Believe you me, he’ll have them squealing In no time. . . . I know, I know, “the parergon.” That bit where the Platonic paint is peeling, “Aporia,” “lacuna,” some such jargon, Read, of course, across forces failing To coalesce [...]
Oz-tensible Purpose: Simon Haines on the Humanities "Down Under"
It is comforting to discover that the United States isn’t the only nation fretting over the future of the humanities. The April 29 edition of The Australian contains a story by Simon Haines, an English professor in Oz, who offers his thoughts on a speech given a year ago by Australian politician John Armstrong on [...]
Bubble Sexy: Love Land's Unfulfilled Eastern Promises
Citing moral qualms, the Chinese government has ordered the closing of the country’s first-ever theme park devoted to sex. The unfinished park, dubbed Love Land, was to offer visitors workshops and demonstrations on honing their sexual skills. The London Times reports that a giant rotating statute of a woman sporting a red g-string prompted authorities, [...]
Containing Multitudes: Annie Finch on Facebook and the New Poetry Community
You can’t write poetry on the computer. — Quentin Tarantino Via harriet, The Poetry Foundation’s blog, comes this piece by Annie Finch on the effect Facebook has had on the versifying demimonde. She regards it as largely positive, because it promotes, as she puts it, “a sense of awareness” of a vast number of other [...]
Fever to Tell: An Open Love Letter
So much depends on the tensive brutality of the seemingly random association. This brutality marshals a confrontation between witnessing and whimsy. One pursues the gossamer trace threading the luminous mundanity of partially and imperfectly recalled memories, which are scattered like unset jewels on the black velvet of consciousness, tempting one with their lustrous disorder to [...]
Things Fall Apart: Mark C. Taylor on the Future of the American University
In an April 27 New York Times opinion piece, Columbia University Religious Studies professor Mark C. Taylor offers his prescription for the ills besetting American university graduate programs. He begins with a quip: “Graduate education is the Detroit of higher learning.” This mordant bit of humor, while timely, might not sit right with folks in [...]
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