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Feeling the Spirits of San Agustín: On the Belatedness of Latin America

Gregory Jusdanis — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:05:44 -0700

We too find ourselves in a modernidad tardía. That is what my audience reported to me at the Universidad del Rosario in Bogota where I had come to present a series of seminars on Greek culture through the support of the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation.

The Long Now

Ed Finn — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 20:25:12 -0700

In my first post on Arcade I’d like to respond to the important questions about time that Lee raises in his introduction to the contemporary novel colloquy.

Q: "What, after all, does a serious artist get out of being famous other than money and distraction?" A: Trips to Dubai

Alec Hanley Bemis — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 05:57:41 -0800

Terry Teachout's love of theater, his leisurely pacing, and his old-fashioned-ish musical tastes sometimes leave me with the impression that he's a bit out-of-step with contemporary culture. But then he contributes a column that's so on it snaps into focus just how with it he is, how much he understands the pulse of contemporary life.

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, David Palumbo-Liu, Ramón Saldívar: "Aesthetic Education in the Age of Globalization"

Zach Chandler — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:38:25 -0800

Against Narratives III. Or a Certain Kind of Narrative

Cecile Alduy — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:46:59 -0800

A recent talk by my colleague Joshua Landy on "Still Life in a Narrative Age: Charlie Kaufman's Adaptation," and the comments on my most recent blog "Against Narrative" made me cruelly aware of a divide between on the one hand the perception of what Josh and myself see as the creeping dominance of narrative models to think about life, but also, by extension, to experience it;