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Craft, Critique, Culture Roundtable Discussion October 1, 2000
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Craft, Critique, Culture Roundtable Discussion October 1, 2000

Alan Golding, Mark Levine, Bob Perelman and Thomas Swiss
The Iowa review, Vol.32(1), pp.123-125
04/01/2002
DOI: 10.17077/0021-065X.5538
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There's a kind of knowledge that the aesthetic encounter produces 123 in the body, a kind of experience where you feel like you are thinking with your body and feeling with your brain, that it just doesn't matter whether you say, “No, that's regressive,” or “No, that's the kind of traditional accounting for this sort of experience that has been long ago dismantled by this and this and this…” What a fool!” And I do think it's very complicated historically, because on the one hand certainly a lot of theory does revel in attacking this notion of the deluded bourgeois self and wants to debunk ordinary values, and this is certainly true of early language writing, like some of the widely circulating sound bites about “Let us wage war upon the bourgeoisie.” [...]on the one hand there's this whole congery of, you can call it avant-garde but in lots of quotes, theory, language writing, overturning, demystification, attack on normalcy, the bourgeois, also attack on the normalcy of the students, which makes for very odd pedagogy, but that happens all the time where students are attacked by the pedagogy, like “You poor deluded, cornfed ignoramuses.
 Aesthetics Brain Museums Avant-garde Literary devices Pedagogy Theory Writing

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