Authenticity Is No Longer an Option

Sep 17 2011

Titles of Articles That Are Currently on My Computer Screen

Gene Ray, “Reading the Lisbon Earthquake: Adorno, Lyotard, and the Contemporary Sublime”

Judy Lochhead, “The Sublime, the Ineffable, and Other Dangerous Aesthetics”

James Robert Currie, “Postmodern Beauty and the Sublime Neighbor: A Response to Judy Lochhead’s ‘The Sublime, the Ineffable, and Other Dangerous Aesthetics’”

Rainer Stollmann, “Fascist Politics as a Total Work of Art: Tendencies of the Aesthetization of Political Life in National Socialism”

These + the fourteen or so books I have piled on my bed right now are going to become an article about the ethical/political possibilities of the sublime, I hope.

The only place to get coffee near the library is a brunch place called Demitasse. I got a latte to-go from a cute girl with a pronounced lisp. She was wearing bunny ears.

“Do you support the hunting of tigers?” she said.

“No,” I said. “This is just a band t-shirt.”

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