tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post4203744896779403810..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Theodor Adorno: Gypsy WagonUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-27084017672327070312010-04-13T12:18:12.257-07:002010-04-13T12:18:12.257-07:00Thank you for the clarification regarding what ins...Thank you for the clarification regarding what inspired the Adorno post. I've been out of school so long I was unaware of this phenomenon, but I've now visited the AWP website and read an article about the recent convention and the history of US writing programs. As for the jargon and gibberish, they’re now, always, everywhere, and of course have commercial value as “product”. Although not exactly on point, I’m reminded of that funny line from Spinal Tap, "mime is money".Curtis Robertsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-47498655316502787552010-04-13T10:22:22.749-07:002010-04-13T10:22:22.749-07:00Curtis,
It seems we share the same viewpoint on t...Curtis,<br /><br />It seems we share the same viewpoint on this.<br /><br />I think the Adorno essay -- which by the way dates from the late Sixties -- applies generally. But the specific instigation of the post may have been a massively administered, carefully organized and hugely attended national convention, a few weeks ago, of "writing programs".<br /><br />(That latter phrase always strikes me as oxymoronic, the spontaneous expressive element in writing appearing to have been devoured by its natural enemy the programmatic, but oh well, I have a long record of lagging behind the curve on culture industry jargon, which always falls upon my ancient ears as so much interested-party-derived yet ultimately uninteresting gibberish).TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-36029012565679856512010-04-13T04:22:03.635-07:002010-04-13T04:22:03.635-07:00The Adorno text anticipates so many dread and depr...The Adorno text anticipates so many dread and depression-inducing developments and events: “blockbuster” museum shows; “genre” rock festivals; Manhattan “High Line culture” (in fact, everything the New York Times tells me I should be paying attention to and, by implication, the things I should be ignoring because they don’t fit the prescribed scheme). Outsourced living.Curtis Robertsnoreply@blogger.com