School's not in session, but with only a couple of weeks left before la rentrée is upon us, it's time to start getting your brain back into shape.
If you have any interest in Paris, you ought to know a little something about Walter Benjamin. Read about his pot habit in this week's New Yorker.
What does "Glandridi glassala tuffm Izimbrabim/ Blassa galassasa tuffm Izimbrabim" mean? Find out if it really matters in this piece on Dada in the New York Review of Books
"I, for one, am not prepared to believe that Ann Coulter is made in God's image without seeing some proof." Me either. Jerry Coyne recenters the debate on Coulter's latest "book."
Tired of reading? Watch the late great Michel Foucault lay out his entire philosophy to the impossibly irritating Noam Chomsky on You Tube:
It's about 8 minutes long. You're allowed to go to the bathroom when Chomsky speaks.
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- Lauren Elkin is a PhD candidate in English literature at the Université de Paris VII and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. Originally from New York, she has lived in Paris on and off since 1999 and continuously since 2004. She is a member of the National Book Critics Circle, and her work has appeared in Gridskipper, the Huffington Post, Nextbook, The Forward, Parisist, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, and the Paris Voice. She is the author of the novel IN DORSODURO, which is currently under representation by Diana Finch, and is at work on novel number two, set in present-day Paris.
10 comments:
Chère Maîtresse,
Could you kindly paste a warning notice on your blog when you've mentioned Ann Coulter in a post? I had the misfortune of stumbling upon her/it here way too early this morning. Merci de votre compréhension.
Merci Maîtresse, for the TROPE-icalia of good links :) Good METRO/Underground/MTA reading on the way to work..
Wow! Who knew you could find Michel Foucault on You Tube along with all those karaoke-singing Korean schoolkids?
Bonjour Lauren,
Désolé de répondre si tard, je découvre votre message en même temps que votre blog... d'une grande richesse semble-t-il et dans lequel je vais me plonger quelque peu dans les jours qui viennent.
En ce qui concerne votre question (et désolé si ma réponse est faite dans ce post) je vous conseillerai d'emblée un ouvrage réalisé par deux amis du grand Hugo Pratt, intitulé "Les Balades de Corto Maltese", aux éditions Casterman.
Et par la même occasion, je vous conseille la lecture du magnifique "Fables de Venise" du même Hugo Pratt... Pratt, Vénitien lui même, était un grand promeneur, amoureux du Venise insolite et mystérieux...
Bien à vous.
Pierre
PS : vous pouvez ausi consulter mon site http://www.vivre-venise.com/
Um, Noam Chomsky is the man. He is the most intelligent person out there. And unlike most of his counterparts everytime he speaks he actually has something to say. He almost inspired me to switch to linguistics when i was in university (i was studying engineering). A true intellectual if there ever was one.
yes, Chomssky has been acclaimed worldwide as one of the most influential linguists in history.
I have to say, I find Chomsky's politics and the field of linguistics equally insupportable... but that's just me.
Mais, qu'est-ce que tu dis?? Chomsky ALWAYS uses reasonable arguments when discussing the israeli occupation and the plight of the palestinians.
As far as his linguistics work, to be honest, i know little of.
And that is too bad. Chomsky is a linguist first. His political activism is unsignificant compared to his academic works.
in-significant. and yes he's important as a linguist but has been more interested in provocative activism for a long time now (I refer you to just about any article written on him in the last 10 years).
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