Morgan Meis in The Smart Set, Nobody’s a Critic. Or they’re at least terrified to be one: “Criticism isn’t powerful anymore. It doesn’t drive anything, it doesn’t define what is good and bad in culture. Surely this has mostly to do with all the changes in the media landscape over the last few decades. Basically, [...]
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Nobody’s a Critic
August 17th, 2008
Tags: art · criticism · immanuel kant · literary critics · literature · philosophy
I Contain Multitudes – Mikhail Bakhtin: The Word in the World by Graham Pechey
June 28th, 2007
Terry Eagleton in London Review of Books: “For the past three decades, Mikhail Bakhtin has been more of an industry than an individual. Not only an industry, in fact, but a flourishing transnational corporation, complete with jet-setting chief executives, global conventions and its own in-house journal. In the field of cultural theory, this victim of [...]
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