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		<title>Lars Iyer&#8217;s Misreading of Badiou</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 00:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Hartley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In many ways Alain Badiou and Lars Iyer constitute the existential extremities of the present political conjuncture. Where the latter has raised bathos to a fine but torturous art (too bathetic, too fine and too torturous for my tastes), the former has reinvented the heroic for the post-heroic age. If I have time, I will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingblueguitars.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8159549&#038;post=767&#038;subd=thinkingblueguitars&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Raymond Williams and Derrida</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2012 10:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Hartley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to a friend of mine, I recently discovered this invaluable series of videos of Raymond Williams, filmed at a conference in Strathclyde back in 1986. The totally unexpected highlight, and one that has about it that disorienting aura of the uncanny, is a video of Derrida in conversation with Raymond Williams. Moreover, in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingblueguitars.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8159549&#038;post=760&#038;subd=thinkingblueguitars&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Proust: In Search of the Present</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Oct 2012 12:48:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Hartley</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[in search of lost time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[phenomenology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[present]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[proust]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I noted long ago a common misconception about Proust’s À la Recherche du Temps Perdu. Put simply, people seem to think that the “lost time” of the title denotes the past, but in fact it denotes the present. More specifically, it implies a present that is present to itself in all its plenitude. So why, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingblueguitars.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8159549&#038;post=751&#038;subd=thinkingblueguitars&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Seamus Heaney on Life and Death in Larkin and Yeats</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 07:55:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Hartley</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[aubade]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cold heaven]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I try to fight off a fairly unpleasant bout of flu, I turned last night to an old essay by Seamus Heaney. The essay, entitled “Joy or Night: Last Things in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats and Philip Larkin”, collected in his excellent volume, The Redress of Poetry, is an examination of how [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingblueguitars.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8159549&#038;post=745&#038;subd=thinkingblueguitars&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More than Nothing: Kevin Bacon&#8217;s &#8220;Bacon Number&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Sep 2012 08:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Hartley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new craze is surging across the internet: “The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon”. According to Wikipedia, it is “a variation on ‘six degrees of separation’ which posits that everyone in the world is no more than six acquaintance links from anyone else on Earth…The game requires a group of players to try to connect [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingblueguitars.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8159549&#038;post=738&#038;subd=thinkingblueguitars&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From the Archive</title>
		<link>http://thinkingblueguitars.wordpress.com/2012/08/28/from-the-archive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2012 13:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Hartley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Learning a Language On Rilke and Love On Autumn Derrida and Literarity The Condition of Mediocrity I hope you enjoy them! Filed under: Culture, Literature Tagged: archive, thinking blue guitar<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingblueguitars.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8159549&#038;post=722&#038;subd=thinkingblueguitars&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Q. D. Leavis on J. G. Ballard</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Aug 2012 20:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Hartley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across this quotation last week in an essay by Francis Mulhern. Q. D. Leavis thinks she&#8217;s describing the general destitution of Britain and its literature, but what she&#8217;s actually doing is summarising the key elements of J. G. Ballard&#8217;s fiction. The England that bore the classical English novel has gone forever, and we [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingblueguitars.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8159549&#038;post=718&#038;subd=thinkingblueguitars&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Ideology of Form: Boyle&#8217;s Opening Ceremony</title>
		<link>http://thinkingblueguitars.wordpress.com/2012/08/03/the-ideology-of-form-boyles-opening-ceremony/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Aug 2012 16:08:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Hartley</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[aristotle]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of Aristotle’s six elements of tragedy, spectacle was the least important, plot the most. Danny Boyle’s opening ceremony was devoid of plot but a virtuoso spectacle: lucky for him, then, that he wasn’t writing a tragedy. But what was the ceremony? Under what genre could we class it? The modern world is full of these [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingblueguitars.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8159549&#038;post=715&#038;subd=thinkingblueguitars&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Concept of Totality in Lukács and Jameson</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:04:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Hartley</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[fredric jameson]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For anyone who&#8217;s interested in the work of György Lukács or Fredric Jameson, I&#8217;ve just uploaded a draft version of a paper I gave 18 months ago at the Historical Materialism conference in London. Here&#8217;s the abstract: This paper sets out the implicit and explicit theories of &#8220;totality&#8221; in the work of György Lukács and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingblueguitars.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8159549&#038;post=711&#038;subd=thinkingblueguitars&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fredric Jameson: The Antinomies of Realism (Excerpt)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Hartley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For anyone who is in any way passionate about the work of Fredric Jameson, this will be an absolute treat: an excerpt from his forthcoming book, The Antinomies of Realism. It&#8217;s a photocopy of a section of the manuscript, and like the modernist that at heart he remains, it is typed on a type-writer with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingblueguitars.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8159549&#038;post=706&#038;subd=thinkingblueguitars&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Two Types of Plot</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:51:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Hartley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of all the elements of tragedy, said Aristotle, plot is the most important: [F]or tragedy is a representation, not of people, but of action and life, of happiness and unhappiness &#8211; and happiness and unhappiness are bound up with action. The purpose of living is an end which is a kind of activity, not a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingblueguitars.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8159549&#038;post=700&#038;subd=thinkingblueguitars&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kindle Single Review: Dean Koontz, The Moonlit Mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Hartley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[dean koontz]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kindle single]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[the moonlit mind]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I suspect the key to Dean Koontz’s popularity can be summed up in two words which happen to be the titles of two of his novels: Breathless and Relentless. His sentences are generally short, staccato affairs. It’s all about pace. It doesn’t matter whether he’s describing a mut or a murder, he’s gonna charge you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingblueguitars.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8159549&#038;post=695&#038;subd=thinkingblueguitars&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Terry Eagleton on Alain de Botton&#8217;s Conservative Atheism</title>
		<link>http://thinkingblueguitars.wordpress.com/2012/01/12/terry-eagleton-on-alain-de-bottons-conservative-atheism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:59:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Hartley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Christianity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alain de botton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[terry eagleton]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Terry Eagleton has written a &#8216;review&#8217; of Alain de Botton&#8217;s latest book, Religion for Atheists. In typical Eagleton style, it is less a review than a polemical destruction &#8211; reminiscent at times of arguably his greatest ever LRB essay: his &#8216;review&#8217; of The God Delusion. Here is a brief extract: ‎&#8221;The book assumes that religious beliefs are [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingblueguitars.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8159549&#038;post=690&#038;subd=thinkingblueguitars&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Academic versus &#8216;Creative&#8217; Writing</title>
		<link>http://thinkingblueguitars.wordpress.com/2012/01/11/academic-versus-creative-writing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:06:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Hartley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[academic writing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Working on this novel has reconfirmed what I already knew: my natural disposition is obsessiveness. When I work on a particular project, I have to be able to immerse myself in it completely, chip away at it for hours on end, day after day, with minimum interruption. Even when I’m not working on it directly, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingblueguitars.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8159549&#038;post=685&#038;subd=thinkingblueguitars&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>John Updike Links</title>
		<link>http://thinkingblueguitars.wordpress.com/2012/01/07/john-updike-links/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 16:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Hartley</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Literature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ben myers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[james wood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[john updike]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[maples stories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paris review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[saul bellow]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As well as reading my first Amazon Kindle Single ready for review next week, I&#8217;ve also been reading John Updike&#8217;s short story collection, The Maples Stories. The juxtaposition between the bestselling Kindle Single and Updike&#8217;s stylistic prowess is dramatic indeed. It&#8217;s led me to return to a few articles on Updike that I&#8217;ve enjoyed over [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thinkingblueguitars.wordpress.com&#038;blog=8159549&#038;post=682&#038;subd=thinkingblueguitars&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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