tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7538710136825122268.post2153129717443858708..comments2024-01-27T17:48:17.457-08:00Comments on gorgeous curiosity: The Cult of GenreVanessahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09464422287668486010noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7538710136825122268.post-46618758233445824592009-03-23T11:51:00.000-07:002009-03-23T11:51:00.000-07:00The last two sentences are my favorites. It remind...The last two sentences are my favorites. It reminds me of my imaginary religion, Discordianism. It's a religion worth having, and one of the only great ones, for it's embrace of the absurdity of nonempirical faith.<BR/><BR/>I think you may have stumbled across a neo-zen practice: the paradigm-destroying binary.MAX!https://www.blogger.com/profile/03142171874212149270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7538710136825122268.post-36248930995431649212009-03-22T23:01:00.000-07:002009-03-22T23:01:00.000-07:00Just wanted to say that the opening sentence made ...Just wanted to say that the opening sentence made me smile; much needed. It's gorgeous.sdqhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17761650666688879076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7538710136825122268.post-53713641977704593592009-03-22T09:14:00.000-07:002009-03-22T09:14:00.000-07:00In the middle of your essay, you state, "whether o...In the middle of your essay, you state, "whether or not something is great is much more important that whether it can or should be categorized." I couldn't agree more. I've always been curious as to why some academes insist upon banging their heads upon walls, debating on the categorization of art. We are all well into creating braids with our thinking and art, hopefully we are, and I would think that overlapping genres or using a variety of media would assist us in the delivery of those braids. <BR/><BR/>In graduate school at Boston College, I took an Asian-American cultural studies course, and one text under consideration was a book called Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, a brilliant Korean-American performance artist who was unfortunately killed in 1982. I own two editions of this book. One edition is categorized as "Literature/Art" and the other is not categorized at all. I remember some of my peers found their books categorized as "Memoir/Art." I bring up this book within the context of this genre discussion because Dictee is all of these things and much more...more than just a braid. It's more like a fish tail, or perhaps more of a spider's web! <BR/><BR/>In Dictee, Cha utilizes the languages of English, French, a bit of Korean, a bit of Chinese, and a bit of filmic language (as if giving direction behind a camera). She also incorporates photography, maps, medical charts, and film stills (a couple in particular are from Carl Dreyer's silent film La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc).<BR/><BR/>The text is completely fascinating and it forever changed the way I read and see experience. In some ways it's a total mind fuck, but it's a text that must be considered and discussed! If you ever pick it up, let me know!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7538710136825122268.post-74544926120903403592009-03-21T13:38:00.000-07:002009-03-21T13:38:00.000-07:00Hell yeah. There's so many good sentences in thi...Hell yeah. There's so many good sentences in this blog, it's like it's not a blog. Oops, I just fell into the cult of genre...<BR/><BR/>Other good examples of the tyranny of genre and field:<BR/>*my classmate who loves puns but not in her poetry because 'puns are so out in poetry right now'.<BR/>* the constant criticism of Bono's politics,as well as the Dixie Chicks: "shut up and sing". I like musicians who are good politicians and I like politicians who are good artists, such as Havel of the Czech Republic<BR/>* films, such as Speed Racer and the Star Wars PREQUELS (that's right) that so thoroughly tangle up high and mass culture that fans of both hate them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com