http://arcade.stanford.edu/category/tags/aesthetics The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en-ac http://arcade.stanford.edu/humanities <p>Last summer while travelling I read <i>Moby Dick</i> on my iPhone. I am now at a point in my life when, circumscribed by airline baggage weight restrictions, the choice between packing <i>Moby Dick</i> or an extra pair of shoes is no choice at all. So I downloaded a free version and tucked my phone in my pocket.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/humanities">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/humanities#comments Aesthetics iPhone McLuhan Melville http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1456 Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:12:48 -0700 Christopher Warley 1456 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/hegel-ecology-aesthetics <p>...this is part of a talk I'm going to do at Queen Mary University in London in a few weeks, at the conference Emerging Critical Environments with Kate Soper and Tim Clark (and others). I already posted the opening on my blog.  </p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/hegel-ecology-aesthetics">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/hegel-ecology-aesthetics#comments Aesthetics Antrhopocene art ecology Hegel http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/1298 Fri, 12 Aug 2011 08:16:00 -0700 Timothy Morton 1298 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/rip-lady-mary-wroth <p>Lately I often find myself saying “I cut Lady Mary Wroth from my syllabus because the poems are terrible.” </p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/rip-lady-mary-wroth">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/rip-lady-mary-wroth#comments Aesthetics literary criticism Wroth http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/965 Sat, 02 Oct 2010 08:12:42 -0700 Christopher Warley 965 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/reading-badger <p>I got back from England last week. While I was there it surprised me to see on at least two occasions a cold mound of badger flesh, large as a black plastic rubbish sack, one dead paw raised as if to ask a question in class, lying at the side of a rural road. I don't remember that sight from the days when I grew up in the country.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/reading-badger">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/reading-badger#comments Aesthetics badgers fighting John Clare poetry http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/877 Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:53:45 -0700 Nicholas Jenkins 877 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/meaning-and-flowers <p>One of the pleasures of teaching is the ability to linger at length with students on questions such as this: « Pourquoi donc y a-t-il des fleurs ? » [Why on earth are there flowers? Philippe Jaccottet. <i>Cahier de verdure</i>, 1990 : 106]. </p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/meaning-and-flowers">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/meaning-and-flowers#comments Aesthetics Education Flowers French Jaccottet meaning poetry Senses tropes http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/833 Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:12:12 -0700 Cecile Alduy 833 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/night-opera <p>In a talk at Stanford that I listened to <a href="/gayatri-chakravorty-spivak-david-palumbo-liu-ram%C3%B3n-sald%C3%ADvar-aesthetic-education-age-of-globalization">here</a>, Gayatri Spivak warned that literature departments were turning into opera.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/night-opera">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/night-opera#comments Aesthetics David Lee Roth historicism Spivak Van Halen http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/829 Mon, 12 Jul 2010 06:55:11 -0700 Christopher Warley 829 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/hand-of-god-aesthetics-ethics-and-law-beautiful-game <p class="MsoNormal">If you help your team win a match by deliberately breaking the rules, as Luis Suárez did last week, are you a hero or a cheat?<b></b>  I think a cheat, but let me say why.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/hand-of-god-aesthetics-ethics-and-law-beautiful-game">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/hand-of-god-aesthetics-ethics-and-law-beautiful-game#comments Aesthetics beauty Didier Drogba Diego Maradona ethics football law Luis Suárez Roy Keane soccer world cup http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/826 Thu, 08 Jul 2010 17:01:48 -0700 Joshua Landy 826 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/lying-considered-one-of-fine-arts <p>Judging historical artworks within historical categories seems, in general, like a Good Thing, but it leads sometimes to unanticipated conclusions. I've been working (i.e. should be working right now) on Osbern of Canterbury's late 11th century life of St Ælfheah, most of which is made up.</p> <p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/lying-considered-one-of-fine-arts">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/lying-considered-one-of-fine-arts#comments Aesthetics fictionality hagiography Latin lies http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/749 Mon, 03 May 2010 14:03:21 -0700 Emily Thornbury 749 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/gayatri-chakravorty-spivak-david-palumbo-liu-ram%C3%B3n-sald%C3%ADvar-aesthetic-education-age-of-globalization http://arcade.stanford.edu/gayatri-chakravorty-spivak-david-palumbo-liu-ram%C3%B3n-sald%C3%ADvar-aesthetic-education-age-of-globalization#comments Aesthetics capital David Palumbo-Liu epistemology Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak globalization history information memory pedagogy Ramón Saldívar The Arcade Channel the university time 106:25 Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, David Palumbo-Liu, Ramón Saldívar Panel Discussion, part of the History, Memory and Reconciliation speaker series. no http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/645 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:38:25 -0800 Zach Chandler 645 at http://arcade.stanford.edu http://arcade.stanford.edu/too-much-too-much-too-much-short-attention-span-essay-about-sufjan-stevens-liberace <p style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: medium"><b>I. THE SURFACE</b></span></p> <p> Maybe you <a href="http://asthmatickitty.com/news.php?newsID=485">heard about</a> Sufjan Stevens' recent US tour. Maybe you read my <a href="http://ahb.brassland.org/2009/07/13/sufjan/">braggadocious</a> post about the (tiny) role I had in kicking off this latest round of shows. </p><p><a href="http://arcade.stanford.edu/too-much-too-much-too-much-short-attention-span-essay-about-sufjan-stevens-liberace">read more</a></p> http://arcade.stanford.edu/too-much-too-much-too-much-short-attention-span-essay-about-sufjan-stevens-liberace#comments Aesthetics Carl Wilson Dave Hickey Disco Balls ethics Jazz Hands Liberace Music Hall of Williamsburg religion Rockism Sufjan Stevens Taste Leave http://arcade.stanford.edu/crss/node/389 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:39:09 -0700 Alec Hanley Bemis 389 at http://arcade.stanford.edu