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Roger Rees (ed.), Ted Hughes and the Classics. Classical Presences. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Pp. xii, 348. ISBN 978-0-19-922971-0. $135.00. From Simon Goldhill’s review in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review: There are at least three types of reception study in classics. The first takes a work of the ancient world — the Aeneid, [...]
The Inhumanities and Speculative Heresy are hosting a cross-blog event on the topic of critical animal studies from the perspective of speculative realism. The first post up – on Levinas, the Other, and animals – has set the stage for what promises to be a lively, rich discussion, centered around the following question: While speculative [...]
The Enemy of All: Piracy and the Law of Nations by Daniel Heller-Roazen 295 pp. | 6 x 9 Available November 2009 FORTHCOMING from Zone Books: The pirate is the original enemy of humankind. Before humanitarian organizations, human rights, and the establishment of international law in the early modern period, the Roman statesmen already made [...]
Via Mariborcan, see Open Reflections‘ round-up of (and commentary on) the major text, philosophy, and theory sharing sites, which are: Fark Yaralari = Scars of Differance Multitude of Blogs Museum of Accidents Discourse Notebook AAAARD.ORG However, as counterpoint to Janneke Adema’s echoing of John Perry Barlow‘s well-known declaration that “information wants to be free“, it [...]
Amid growing international concern over the India-Israel arms trade, the Israeli firm Rafael unveiled the below marketing video — described by Stephen Trimble of The Dew Line as a “catastrophic collision of Bollywood and the arms industry” - at the Aero India 2009 defense convention in Bangalore. In the months since its posting, the video has become the [...]
Though the main fixtures of a classic, Hollywood film are conspicuously absent – narrative, sequential time, protagonist – it would be a mistake to describe Terence Davies’ film as experimental. Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) does not, after all, revel in its play with filmic form: it does not push the limits of film language [...]
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