The Problem With Rupi Kaur's Poetry milk and honey is divided into four sections that can be read in isolation or in order, the first being "the hurting." Most of Kaur’s darker poems about rape, abuse, and familial misogyny can be found here. Yet many of these poems are not in the individual confessional vein for which Kaur is known and celebrated. Rather, they speak more generally about parents and children, men and women in the abstract, or they take a collective approach, relying on heavy use of plural pronouns like “we” and “our” to refer to an imagined South Asian universal experience. While Kaur didn't answer multiple requests for comment, the FAQ section of her website indicates that she is interested less in sharing her own experiences, despite the claims of her fans, and more in what she portrays as the collective nature of sexual trauma in her community, writing: Kaur’s balancing act does not only extend to her approach to trauma, but also to her engagement with literary diversity.
Rancière, for Dummies by Ben Davis Jacques Rancière, The Politics of Aesthetics, 116 pp., Continuum, 2006, $12.95. The 66-year-old French philosopher Jacques Rancière is clearly the new go-to guy for hip art theorists. Artforum magazine’s ever-sagacious online "Diary" has referred to Rancière as the art world’s "darling du jour," and in its recent issue, the magazine itself has described digital video artist Paul Chan as "Rancièrian" -- as an aside, without further explanation, no less! For anyone looking for a primer, Rancière’s slim The Politics of Aesthetics has just been published in paperback. Rancière has the undeniable virtue, for the esoterica-obsessed art world at least, of being something of an odd duck. The Politics of Aesthetics is a quick and dirty tour of a number of these themes. Politically, Rancière favors the concept of equality. Back-to-back with this "esthetics of politics," in Rancière’s thinking, is a "politics of esthetics" itself. BEN DAVIS is associate editor of Artnet Magazine.
Chiara Giovanni | DIVISION OF LITERATURES, CULTURES, AND LANGUAGES I received my training in Medieval and Modern Languages at the University of Oxford, completing an undergraduate and a master's degree in Spanish and German. My graduate work at Oxford, generously funded by the Mica and Ahmet Ertegun House Graduate Programme in the Humanities, addressed questions of identity, whether individual or literary: I produced work on race and performativity, and on love and the self, in Early Modern Spanish writing. My thesis examined a little-known West German novel from 1967, Don Quichotte in Köln, that explicitly refashions Cervantes' magnum opus in the service of contemporary political concerns, and the manuscript of this piece is currently under peer review.
Hatred of Democracy I read Ranciere's Hatred of Democracy yesterday. There is something appealing in his discussion of the scandal of democracy, although, ultimately, I'm not convinced of his underlying thesis. What's appealing? Ranciere's emphasis on chance (he gets here via a reading of Plato). The drawing of lots attests to a form of government that allows a role for chance, that is, for those with no claim to rule actually to rule. I find this idea quite provocative, and, yes, a scandal. But, Ranciere links this chance to equality in a way I don't quite get. Their power must become a political power. Politics, it seems, requires that power be justified. [there is] no force that is imposed without having to justify itself, and hence without having to recognize the irreducibility of equality needed for inequality to function. I'm not sure I follow this. Yet, isn't it the case that most inequalities persevere unjustified and illegitimate? Democracy can never be identified with a juridico-political form.
Franco Zeffirelli Franco Zeffirelli, KBE Grande Ufficiale OMRI (Italian: [ˈfraŋko dzeffiˈrɛlli]; born 12 February 1923) is an Italian director and producer of operas, films and television. He is also a former senator (1994–2001) for the Italian centre-right Forza Italia party. Some of his operatic designs and productions have become worldwide classics.[1][2][3][4] A Grande Ufficiale OMRI of the Italian Republic since 1977, Zeffirelli also received an honorary knighthood from the British government in 2004 when he was created a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire.[5] He was awarded the Premio Colosseo in 2009 by the city of Rome. Early life[edit] Zeffirelli was born Gianfranco Zeffirelli in the outskirts of Florence, Italy. Italian researchers have found that Zeffirelli is one of a handful of living people traceably consanguineous with Leonardo da Vinci. Career[edit] Film[edit] Zeffirelli with Olivia Hussey while filming Romeo and Juliet in 1967 Opera[edit] Honours[edit] Personal life[edit]
A vote for anarchy The political philosopher Jacques Rancière would like to encourage the disruption of the normal order that is real democracy. Julian Baggini hears his campaign If you rage against the growth of consumerist individualism, the dumbing down of education in the name of widening participation or the shallow hedonism of modern life, you're probably just expressing a deep-rooted hatred of democracy. That's the provocative thesis of Jacques Rancière, one of France's leading political philosophers, who challenges head on the tendency of leftist intellectuals to combine a professed concern for the masses with a haughty dismissal of virtually everything the masses actually think or do. You'd be in good company, though. Rancière claims that hatred of democracy - a phrase he uses as the title of his latest book - is as old as politics itself. But what Plato saw as the horror of democracy was really its great virtue. There is a lot of debate in many places.
Publications and Awards – Angus McLinn Fiction “Hollywood, MN.” The Other Stories Podcast, Episode 155, April 18, 2018. “The Dim.” 17th Annual Writer’s Digest Short Short Story Competition Collection, Writer’s Digest, 2017. 23rd Place, Writer’s Digest Short Short Story Competition “Preexisting Conditions.” “Baby Teeth.” First Prize, Quarter Life Crisis Competition 2018 Pushcart Prize Nominee “Saint Peregrine Sequence.” “A Guy Walks Into a Bar and Says Ouch.” “Great Granite Dads” Tempered Magazine, Issue 1. “Getting the Doctor to Tell You to Stop Drinking”; “Horror Soundtrack Love Song”; “My Life is a Low Life Bad Joke” Tiger Train Magazine. “I Want to Stay Like This Forever.”Marco Polo Arts Mag. “Paper Airplanes.” 2013 Saint Paul Almanac, Arcata Press.September 2012 Winner, Harry Scherman Award for Creative Prose Your Heart Really Does Explode.
The perversion of social democracy in Australia - The Drum Opinion Find More Stories The perversion of social democracy in Australia Amy Mullins The somewhat under-recognised British historian Tony Judt (1948-2010) delivered a landmark lecture in 2009 called, ‘ What Is Living and What Is Dead In Social Democracy? ' In it he raises remarkably poignant and palpable points regarding the origin, the flourishing success and the latent decline of the social democratic tradition. What is most haunting is just how closely Judt’s observations can be applied to the nebulous operation of social democracy in Australia today and its place within its local ideological home, the Australian Labor Party. I don't think I'm taking a great leap in saying we all have an intuitive feeling that Labor has a pervasive inability to communicate its policies to the public. "The Australian Labor Party is a and has , to the extent necessary to eliminate exploitation and other anti-social features in these fields." Email Share x del.icio.us Digg Kwoff StumbleUpon