Tag Archives: aesthetic judgment

Pouring through Books: Fun! Chaucer’s Books Post (George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, J Hillis Miller, Wars between Deconstruction and Cultural Studies…)

I am having a surreal experience. I am at J’s with his son, 7.5, and his ex-stepson, nearly 13, whose 6th grade graduation party I attended a few weeks ago. I have never slept in a house with two kids, … Continue reading

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Serious Note about the Powers of Art/ Validity of (Kant’s) Aesthetic Theory: Reflections on the Laughs and Tears of Sports Night

NOTE: THIS WAS WRITTEN JANUARY 19, 2011. I wished for it to appear on the blog wall rather than FB archives as it exemplifies the interpenetration of my intellectual life and my pop-cultural investments. Very few TV shows deserve the … Continue reading

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