New Left Review. The New Inquiry. A Magazine of Art & Politics. Ciao | ippolita.net. December 18, 1988: Joseph Brodsky Gives the Greatest Commencement Address of All Time. By Maria Popova “Of all the parts of your body, be most vigilant over your index finger, for it is blame-thirsty.
A pointed finger is a victim’s logo.” The exquisite commencement address is a special kind of art, necessitating in equal parts the vulnerability of sharing personal experience and the challenge of extracting from it wisdom of universal resonance. Among history’s most memorable are Neil Gaiman on making good art, Debbie Millman on courage and the creative life, Judith Butler on the value of reading and the humanities, Oprah on failure and finding your purpose, Greil Marcus on the essence of art, Joss Whedon on embracing our inner contradictions, and more fantastic speeches by Ann Patchett, Jacqueline Novogratz, David Foster Wallace, Ellen DeGeneres, Aaron Sorkin, Barack Obama, Ray Bradbury, J. K. Rowling, Steve Jobs, Robert Krulwich, Meryl Streep, and Jeff Bezos.
Brodsky begins: Life is a game with many rules but no referee. He goes on to offer six such existential tips: A-Rivista Anarchica.
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