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zombie apocalypses are already happening… and have been for quite awhile apparently
I, unfortunately, am also included in the “zombies” because I completely blanked out and just remembered I have a blog post due today. Well technically yesterday. Whoops. Northanger Abbey is interesting, and I got into it right at the beginning … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Magical Truth
Apologies for the tardy blog post–it won’t happen again. Anyways, I felt rather confused about Alejo Carpentier’s book The Kingdom of This World. In fact, I feel similar to how I felt after reading the Master and Margarita. Confused, unsure of what to do next… novels like these just seem to go way over my […] Continue reading →
Lao-sseau?
In A Discourse on Inequality, Rousseau seems to be arguing that which is a double-edged sword: humanity’s limitless capacity to understand and reason allows us to think all of these wonderful “thoughts”–but on the other hand, it allows us to manufacture desires that we are incapable of fully quenching, and which therefore is the cause […] Continue reading →
Bulgakov’s Warning
Must we look at Bulgakov’s book The Master and Margarita as a critique of Soviet society? There’s no doubt that it can be viewed this way, but what characterizes truly great works of literature (as opposed to, say, Harry Potter or the Hunger Games) is that the reader can approach the same text yet draw different conclusions. So what […] Continue reading →
Naming the unknown –– Antigone’s Claim by Judith Butler
What we have here is The Ambiguous Case of Antigone, where she is “unintelligible and unthinkable”. So… why do people even bother trying to understand her? Here’s why I think so many people have attempted to define and classify Antigone … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Antigone’s Box
A good friend of mine once told me about how he thinks other people view the world. He sees people constructing boxes around themselves that are given any number of labels–”Christian”, “Buddhist”, “Atheist”, “Male”, “Female”, “Homosexual”, etc., in which we … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Emily Dickinson and Antigone
Greg – As I was reading Antigone, I noticed several similar themes and motifs between Antigone and the work of the poet Emily Dickinson. Both Antigone and Emily Dickinson were women who countered their cultural traditions by not taking a husband. Their voices were dismissed because they were regarded as insane because they did not […]Continue reading →
Antigone and Other Nonsensical Thoughts
First of all, I’d like to say congratulations to everyone who has written and handed in their first Arts One paper. Yesterday night marked the first paper that I will write for University and to me, I think it marks the beginning of my University career. When I first read Antigone, I was surprised […] Continue reading →
I believe you but you don’t know what you’re saying? — Gorgias by Plato
I am confused by a very simple point in Plato’s Gorgias. If Gorgias claims that what oratory is is simply being able to persuade a person or crowd without knowledge that he is knowledgable in something he actually isn’t, then what does … Continue reading → Continue reading →
Defining Gorgias
This blog post is mainly for my thoughts on Gorgias, but we”ll get to that later. Firstly, I can’t lie and tell you that I haven’t taken a peek at some other blog posts already, but I’ve noticed that quite … Continue reading → Continue reading →