An obvious theme throughout Fight Club is the partnering perceptions of death between the narrator and his alter ego, Tyler Durden. Obvious though it may be, the intricacies challenge our own perceptions, making us ask which is right. Either? Elements of both? None? And how does this relate to the shift from the modern to the postmodern?
In response [...]
Racial Inequality in Public Education through the Lens of Critical Race Theory
What came first, the chicken or the egg? Does the injustice of racism create systemic issues or do systemic issues create unjust divisions of race? A rally for both sides exists, but I believe that critical race theory, as opposed to conservative nationalism, better [...]
Initially written to entertain myself… until I accidentally learned something.
The Twist
The one thing Frederick Jameson fears most in “The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism” is postmodernism. He believes that the loss of a modernist code or the historicity in art & lit renders it powerless. But what about his theory itself? It seems to me that Jameson, in talking about the [...]
It’s been a couple of months since I wrote about the racially charged contraversy surrounding the Jena Six. My writing was nowhere near timely as precipitating events and racial tension in this small community began more than a year ago with arrests made as far back as December, but the story was just then beginning to percolate above ground. Coverage came from independent [...]
Luciano Pavarotti passed away on the 6th of this month and, although I didn’t know him, it saddens me.
One of my favorite memories about being a flight attendant was a 1998 trip to Italy. Pavarotti was seated in first class. The famous tenor’s manager had arranged with our airline to provide a special meal on board. Once in the air, Pavarotti stepped [...]
Having already given my raw reaction to the postmodern Fight Club in a previous post, I wanted to share some bonus material in reference to the car accident scene. I had mentioned the Futurist connection in class but the original text is far more revealing.
The frame of mind surrounding the events of this 1908 car accident is similar to what Pitt’s character was [...]
Watching movies for class rocks.
From the opening credits, Fight Club alludes to the unrepresentable. As the names spin off into gaseous clouds, what appears to be the universe swirls within the biologic make-up of Edward Norton’s character, yet one would think that the character would exist somewhere within the Universe. So, where does the Universe [...]
Dear class:
I can get behind Lyotard’s postmodern theory on several levels:
I’m down with the fact that reality is not real, that it is rather “simplicity, communicability” (75) in the name of the “unity of experience” (72).
I even prefer the raw honesty of the aesthetic sublime over the beautiful and perfect modern form.
AND I get that the postmodern “puts forward [...]
In class we began to analyze what the narrator had learned, if anything, by the end of Winterson’s novel, Written on the Body. I believe that several important massages were accepted by both the narrator and myself, as a participating reader.
In deep mourning for Louise’s lost love, the narrator says, “‘I couldn’t find her. I [...]
Chaos has moved in. We are in the midst of installing the new wood floor… which must be done before we install radiant heat (as to avoid shooting nails through the tubing)… AND, we need to finish ripping walls out of the basement to pour new flooring over said tubes… AND yes, with 40 degree [...]
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