Representing (Blogger) Absence
Deborah Meadows has been trying for a couple of days to send us something.
Finally, she sent to my email address, so here it is, pasted in, which seems to destroy the formatting, oo la.
Susan,Once again I tried to send a blog, but this time I wrote in a file then copied and pasted. Still don't see it, so please copy and paste into the blog this:The high level of commentary is impressive here and you writers keyed in on many important points such as the gap between what represents and what is represented. Also important to go back to the 19th century to consider how class, gender, ethnicity, their underlying assumptions mark us today, how ideas and ideologies are reinforced at the syntax level. And the detailed study of needles, the careful noticing of the language, of music or sonic associations, great.Sometimes I open a reading by posing a question on how Melville wrote earlier works very sympathetic to mutineers, was himself a mutineer in the Marquesas, jumped ship in Hawaii, but then is he turning to the composition of Moby-Dick as a way to pursue the question of what happens when the urge to revolt is repressed, the urge toward revolution? We know it follows a tragic arc (restricted economy) of death and destruction, and can the text also offer an excessive reading (general economy) that exceeding the surface play?As writers you may also have considered how t represent overheard or present language shards and phrases on the pageshould everything be in italics or within quotation marks? For e.g., in the invocation no blood is good blood&.does that require italics to show that this era of triumphant empire is based on the central contradiction of chattel slavery and wage slavery? Wont readers know that these are not arguments from a unified subjectivity but the crowded backwash of cultural clutter?
Finally, she sent to my email address, so here it is, pasted in, which seems to destroy the formatting, oo la.
Susan,Once again I tried to send a blog, but this time I wrote in a file then copied and pasted. Still don't see it, so please copy and paste into the blog this:The high level of commentary is impressive here and you writers keyed in on many important points such as the gap between what represents and what is represented. Also important to go back to the 19th century to consider how class, gender, ethnicity, their underlying assumptions mark us today, how ideas and ideologies are reinforced at the syntax level. And the detailed study of needles, the careful noticing of the language, of music or sonic associations, great.Sometimes I open a reading by posing a question on how Melville wrote earlier works very sympathetic to mutineers, was himself a mutineer in the Marquesas, jumped ship in Hawaii, but then is he turning to the composition of Moby-Dick as a way to pursue the question of what happens when the urge to revolt is repressed, the urge toward revolution? We know it follows a tragic arc (restricted economy) of death and destruction, and can the text also offer an excessive reading (general economy) that exceeding the surface play?As writers you may also have considered how t represent overheard or present language shards and phrases on the pageshould everything be in italics or within quotation marks? For e.g., in the invocation no blood is good blood&.does that require italics to show that this era of triumphant empire is based on the central contradiction of chattel slavery and wage slavery? Wont readers know that these are not arguments from a unified subjectivity but the crowded backwash of cultural clutter?
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