Read and respond. Are you a rockist. Where are your music biases?
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/31/arts/music/31sann.html?_r=1
Friday, March 2, 2012
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Language
Like far too many "educated" Americans, I am fluent in exactly NO other world languages. I can read French a bit, but it's been twenty years since I did any real reading in French, way back in grad school. I have a hazy desire to learn Spanish because so many of our nation's newest citizens are Spanish speakers, but I never seem to find the time.
If I could learn any language, I think I would go back to French. That language retains, for me, its cosmopolitan allure, its sound of sophistication. And I would like to read the Mallarme, Rimbaud, Baudelaire and Reverdy again with clarity. There is newish translation of Rimbuad’s Illuminations by my hero John Ashberry. I have the dual language edition and have enjoyed playing with some of the challenging ideas therein. My French is too too rusty to do much more than look at various phrases and try to remember how the verb tenses work.
Read the essay here. Then write about 400 words in which you summarize your own work with world languages and then look to the future. What will you learn and why? After all, you are still young! Your brain is still plastic enough to learn a language quickly.
Show off as a writer. Please proofread carefully.
If I could learn any language, I think I would go back to French. That language retains, for me, its cosmopolitan allure, its sound of sophistication. And I would like to read the Mallarme, Rimbaud, Baudelaire and Reverdy again with clarity. There is newish translation of Rimbuad’s Illuminations by my hero John Ashberry. I have the dual language edition and have enjoyed playing with some of the challenging ideas therein. My French is too too rusty to do much more than look at various phrases and try to remember how the verb tenses work.
Read the essay here. Then write about 400 words in which you summarize your own work with world languages and then look to the future. What will you learn and why? After all, you are still young! Your brain is still plastic enough to learn a language quickly.
Show off as a writer. Please proofread carefully.
Monday, February 27, 2012
The Ghost in the Machine
We can distinguish five positions on consciousness: eliminativist, dualist, idealist, panpsychist and mysterianist. Which are you? Readf and explain why you favor your choice.
Read the article here.
Read the article here.
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