Posts Tagged ‘ Theory ’

Ten Weeks of Derrida, Week 2: The End of the Book and the Beginning of Writing

Of Grammatology is divided into two parts: Writing before the Letter and Nature, Culture, Writing. Here we begin the first part of the first part, The End of the Book and the Beginning of Writing, a 24 page section subdivided into three parts: The Program (5 pages), The Signifier and Truth (9 pages), and The [ READ MORE ]

Derrida’s Of Grammatology in Ten Weeks

Wikipedia’s page on Derrida and Of Grammatology is dreadful, and the internet apparently is not vast enough to have any good alternatives. So I’m going to read the book over the next ten weeks, posting about what I’ve read each week. I’ll update this page to reflect my progress. The goal is to explain Derrida [ READ MORE ]

The Stones of Venice: The Savageness of the Gothic

I was looking for this essay online, and I couldn’t find it for the life of me. So I got it from Archive.org and edited it to make it readable. I don’t think many people would want to read this for fun, but it is the most interesting art criticism I have ever read; at [ READ MORE ]

Is Nick gay in The Great Gatsby?

These past five weeks I’ve been (thus far successfully) engaged in a project to finish a book a week. Not necessarily read a book cover to cover every week, but that one of the books I’m reading transitions from my nightstand to my bookshelf. It began five weeks ago with Anna Karenina, which I’d read [ READ MORE ]

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