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)

Voilà

My review of Pierrot le Fou is up now at Notcoming.

WTF WCW? (Part Deux)

“For this very reason I detest Eliot (personally) and fear his verse. He is as contagious in his measures as jazz, in fact to me, he is a kind of jazz. I think he realizes that himself and so has gone over into the Parsifal music of his present phase. He doesn’t know how to write any more since he is so badly based in his conception of what verse is. He simply doesn’t know and Aiken is not much different. They are thinking of something very dead and likely to be smelly very soon — one of the first things that is done at an autopsy is to measure and weigh the corpse."

— letter to R.P. Blackmur, November 11, 1940

Is it just me

or does this look like a hip-hop album cover?

This is beautiful. Now i feel like I don't even have to read the book. Thanks Stanley Fish!

http://fish.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/french-theory-in-america/index.html

Trilling on Nabokov

Thank you you-tube

An interview of Trilling and Nabokov talking about Lolita

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldpj_5JNFoA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldpj_5JNFoA

I like how they change seats a little bit of the ways through from the book room to the parlor or something.

Good catch

Did you know that Yeats' "Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen" was originally published (in The Dial) as "Thoughts Upon the Present State of the World"? This has got to go down as one of the most fortunate title changes in literary history.