Showing posts with label Lists. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lists. Show all posts

Saturday, April 12, 2008

Beyond college rock

So I've been thinking recently about starting a new band, and I decided I want to give it the most pretentious, grad-school-damaged name imaginable. With that in mind, here's a provisional list Emily and I came up with over breakfast this morning (with the strongest candidates in bold). Additions welcome!

Here it is:

- Critical Theory
- The Arcades Project
- The Public Sphere
- Différance
- Hegemony or Survival*
- The Flaneurs
- Cultural Capital
- Philosophical Investigations
- Gender Studies
- Gender Trouble +
- Public vs. Private
- Separate Spheres
- Discipline and Punish*
- The History of Sexuality @
- Masters of Arts
- The Postmodern Condition
- Anti-Oedipus
- Ph.D.
- Tenure Track @
- The Long Revolution*
- Culture and Society*
- Learned Behavior @
- The Duck/Rabbit Problem
- Schrödinger's Cat
- Pass/Fail
- The Rise of the Novel @
- Modernism/Modernity
- Archive Fever @
- The Politics of Friendship @
- The New Criticism
- Aesthetics

* (would have to be a punk or metal band)
+ (would have to be electroclash or glam rock)
@ (might be more of a song title)

Friday, February 22, 2008

Fiction, Pro and Con

Pro

The prose
The fact that it (has been) a popular medium
The stories, sometimes

Con

All the pages
All the fake people

Monday, August 20, 2007

Writers who have been hit by cars

1. John Wheelwright
2. Renato Poggioli
3. Randall Jarrell
4. Frank O'Hara
5. Roland Barthes
6. Italo Svevo
7. James Weldon Johnson (by a train, while in a car)