Feb. 7th, 2010

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Ha! I just realized that the reading for Tuesday's modernism class is from a book I currently have checked out of the library for my thesis. And since its the section by Jameson from this book, I've even read it before, although I found it less than useful for my thesis.

Yeah, don't mind me; I'm just geeking out because finally things in my classes are starting to intersect with what I actually consider my field.

BLAST!

Feb. 7th, 2010 08:15 pm
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Oh, Wyndham Lewis.

AUTOMOBILISM (Marinetteism) bores us. We don't want to go about making a hullo-bullo about motor cars, anymore than about knives and forks, elephants or gas-pipes.

Elephants are VERY BIG. Motor cars go quickly.

(Do I remember correctly that we all got a big kick out of that in Jesse's class? I know we read something from Blast at one point.)

And the other manifestos are just as entertaining. Sometimes they just sound cranky rather than like they're trying to invent a new aesthetic. Oh, modernists, never stop amusing me.

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