tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28702954599792053122023-11-16T05:48:33.445-08:00Burt Hurts: The wide-ranging thoughtful and thoughtless thoughts of Richard BurtThe wide-ranging thoughtful and thoughtless thoughts of Richard Burt.Richard Burthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09967496685717379125noreply@blogger.comBlogger109125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870295459979205312.post-81035799683312703122016-05-29T06:17:00.005-07:002016-05-29T06:17:48.969-07:00My Life Is a Dream Nightmare<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">I feel like I'm living in storage, as if I were in an airplane in "comfort" coach seating with</span></span></span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">lots of not very good films available, good headphones to block out the noise, lots of books I brought in my carry-on luggage ,</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">and some granola bars and water I brought with me, as well as meds if I</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">need to sleep. No idea what the destination of the flight is or how long the flight will be. No turbulence on the flight. My wife is traveling with me, and we take frequent trips to the bathroom to have sex. </span></span></span></div>
Richard Burthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09967496685717379125noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870295459979205312.post-408500283512304822016-05-29T06:02:00.005-07:002016-05-29T06:02:46.767-07:00On Being Old<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Being old is even better than being a child. If you are old and you</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">behave badly, no one can put you in a time out. People just pretend</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">you didn't say that, or do that. You get an automatic pass because</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">old.</span></div>
Richard Burthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09967496685717379125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870295459979205312.post-62952276735871993812016-05-29T06:02:00.002-07:002016-05-29T06:02:22.948-07:00The Unbearable Frustration of Unteachable Students<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I appear to have some of the dumbest students I've ever taught. Some</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">really bright ones too. I just met with each student in a conference</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">to discuss his or her second paper from start to finish. It's really</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">so dismaying when you feel you can't teach a student anything about</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">close reading or writing because he or she has not bothered to read</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">the assignment carefully or listen to you talk about the assignment in</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">class--several times, using examples students in the class identified</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">and elaborating on them. And the students think they wrote good</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">papers. There is no getting through to them. Maybe I should just stop</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">assigning papers and give True or False exams instead. Maybe it's time</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">to retire.</span></div>
Richard Burthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09967496685717379125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870295459979205312.post-27542062413885253382016-05-29T06:01:00.003-07:002016-05-29T06:01:17.945-07:00"Student Ignorance Outcomes" <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Aren't SLOs (Student Learning Outcomes) unreasonably optimistic about</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">teaching? I mean language goes into many syllabi now with phrases like</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">"students will have mastered . . ." Some are truly preposterous, as in</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">"students will have learned how to live the good life." If the teacher</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">can use the future perfect tense this way, and the outcome is already</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">determined, why bother to have SLOs at all? I think SIOs would be</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">accurate, as in "Student Ignorance Outcomes." Language could include</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">various future conditional tenses like "For innumerable reasons,</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">students may have failed to master . . . Students who failed the</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">course might have wished they learned how to . . . " Can't we get</span><br style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">creative about the future past?</span></div>
Richard Burthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09967496685717379125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870295459979205312.post-74080084829121814062016-05-29T05:58:00.001-07:002016-05-29T05:58:36.957-07:00Millennial Establishment Journalism<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I would like to know the average age of contributors to The New Yorker in 2004 and in 2016. Ditto for New York Magazine and all other magazines and newspapers that have consistently supported Hillary Clinton and opposed Trump, equating him with Hitler, and have called on Sanders to drop out of the race. </div>
Richard Burthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09967496685717379125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870295459979205312.post-66042218151474386452015-12-31T13:16:00.002-08:002015-12-31T13:16:45.039-08:00Jean Paul Richter's "Extra-Thoughts" on inkstands and pens<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">When Fenk came, the _deceased_ Regent made him all he wanted to be: for
it was in this way: When the departed father of his people had become
in the physiological sense a child of the people, _i. e_., had returned
to the age of which he was when they had hung upon him the first
order-ribbon instead of leading-strings, namely, six and a half years,
the eternal signing of his cabinet decrees became much too disagreeable
to the Prince, and at last impossible. As, however, he must after all
still govern, when he could no longer write, the court-engraver cut his
decreeing name so well in stone that he had only to dip the stamp in
ink and press it while moist under the edict: then he had his edict
before him. In this way he governed fifteen per cent. easier; but the
minister one hundred per cent., who, at last, out of gratitude, in
order to relieve the enfeebled Prince even of the heavy handling of the
stamp, dipped, himself, the beautiful seal (which he preferred to
Michael Angelo's) into his own ink-stand; so that the old lord,
several days after his death, had subscribed sundry vocations and
rescripts--but this modeling-stamp of men in general became the
insect's-laying-sting[24] and father of the best government officials,
and at last spawned the Pestilentiary.
Extra-Thoughts Upon Regents' Thumbs.
Not the crown but the inkstand oppresses Princes, Grand Masters and
Commanders; not the Sceptre, but the Pen do they find so much
difficulty in wielding, because with the former they merely command,
but with the latter they have to sign what is commanded. A cabinet
councillor would not wonder if a tormented crowned scribe should, like
Roman recruits, amputate his thumb, in order to be freed from the
eternal making of his mark, as _they_ do to escape fighting. But the
reigning and writing heads keep the thumb; they see that the welfare of
the land requires their dipping the pen,--the little illegibleness on
cabinet orders which one calls their name, opens and shuts, like a
magic formula, money-chests, hearts, gates, warehouses, ports; the
black drop of their pen manures and forces or macerates whole fields.
Professor Hoppedizel had, when he was first teacher of morals to the
Scheerau Infante, a good idea, although only in his last month:
might not the princely tutor command the sub-tutor to let the
crown-abecedarian, who of course must one day learn to write, instead
of useless bills of feoffment merely scrawl his name in the middle of
every blank leaf? The child would write his signature without disgust
on as many pages as would be needed in his whole administration--the
sheets might be laid away against the child's coronation--and then (he
continued) when he had bespattered pages enough, as a college would
often require his signature yearly, if, accordingly on New Year's day
the necessary number of signed reams had been distributed among the
colleges to last the whole year--what more would the child need to do
in his whole administration?
_End of the Extras-thoughts_.</pre>
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Richard Burthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09967496685717379125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870295459979205312.post-72544790879758460422015-12-28T06:30:00.002-08:002015-12-28T06:38:12.679-08:00I'm on Tumblr<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Richard Burthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09967496685717379125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870295459979205312.post-87684769719260332642015-12-26T19:16:00.003-08:002015-12-26T19:20:17.477-08:00In Memoriam <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This post is in memory of a thought I had--a one-liner--that was pretty good, as I recall--but then couldn't for the life of me remember once I got all the way to this page where I am now writing my post that has now become a kind of gravestone for the forgotten but possibly reanimated thought I have forgotten. I've been letting a lot of my stray thoughts back into the wild lately, but this one seems to have strayed away all on its own. </div>
Richard Burthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09967496685717379125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870295459979205312.post-68508221076308538072015-12-23T14:35:00.002-08:002015-12-23T14:35:43.272-08:00PROVOCATIONS TRANSCRIPT OF A LOST STAND-UP MONOLOGUE DECEMBER 23, 2015 LARB BLOG By Richard Burt<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Richard Burthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09967496685717379125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870295459979205312.post-74843526553061782712015-12-16T08:01:00.004-08:002015-12-17T09:32:27.717-08:00I like philosophy because you don't have to know anything to do it.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
You just have to want to know, to ask questions, learn. </div>
Richard Burthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09967496685717379125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870295459979205312.post-77357858263596632502015-12-16T08:00:00.003-08:002015-12-17T09:32:15.725-08:00You can't have good sex unless you fuck with boundaries.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Think about it. </div>
Richard Burthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09967496685717379125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870295459979205312.post-40658077178869489832015-12-12T07:52:00.001-08:002015-12-12T07:52:25.304-08:00Dear NRA Members<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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You can keep your guns. </div>
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There can be gun control and</div>
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You don’t to have wait to buy a gun or have a background check run on you either. </div>
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Gun owners often compare car deaths and gun deaths. OK. Think of a gun like a car. They are both potentially lethal weapons. </div>
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Cars have to be registered when we buy them, right? And you need a driver’s license to operate a car. To get a license, you have to know how to operate your vehicle safely. And driving is policed primarily to reduce the risk of injury and death. So why not do the same things for guns? Why not require that anyone who buys a gun has to register it? Why not require a gun owner to get a license to shoot it by passing a test showing that the owner knows the basics of gun safety? Why not penalize people who have not registered their guns or gotten a license the same way we penalize people who break driving laws? What do you have to fear, responsible gun owners? If the government hasn’t come for your registered cars, why do you think it will come for your registered guns? </div>
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Richard Burthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09967496685717379125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870295459979205312.post-90749567577161077192015-12-12T07:51:00.001-08:002015-12-16T10:12:16.982-08:00This review is from: The One I Love (Amazon Instant Video)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Although _The One I Love_ does not have a strong ending, the film itself is an inventive combination, or doubling, of two genres about the double, the horror film and the screwball comedy. In the horror genre, the doubles always become enemies, as in the Villeneuve film <a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2FB00K72HVBC%2Fref%3Dcm_cr_asin_lnk&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNE31MB3EF9oCDi6ulUDkgyVCM1wjg" rel="noreferrer" style="color: #004b91;" target="_blank">Enemy [Blu-ray</a>], and one of them ends up dead. (See also the Jessie Eisenberg film <a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2FB00KGA8CPY%2Fref%3Dcm_cr_asin_lnk&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEfnXWNDfZOQOYmZBw0L0C_GF3kAw" rel="noreferrer" style="color: #004b91;" target="_blank">The Double</a>.) The earliest version is <a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2FB0001ZMX5E%2Fref%3Dcm_cr_asin_lnk&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFdY8NdPzEdJrk6W_tmiFJxXhN28Q" rel="noreferrer" style="color: #004b91;" target="_blank">The Student of Prague</a>. In the screwball comedy version, and <a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2FB00005JH9B%2Fref%3Dcm_cr_asin_lnk&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNH05kpJaelfIkSlcnkTiat9c0Scug" rel="noreferrer" style="color: #004b91;" target="_blank">The Lady Eve (The Criterion Collection)</a> is a perfect example, a couple who is engaged or already married separates and then meets up again, only this time one of them doesn't know that the other is impersonating someone else. In The Lady Eve, Henry Fonda thinks that Barbara Stanwyck is really two different people in the film. "Positively the same dame" is the last line of the film, and Fonda never realizes that the woman he marries is the same woman he refused to marry mid-way through the film. It's on youtube for free, btw. Fonda falls in love with the double. The film can end as a comedy, however, because one of the two characters disappears, dies, in effect and displaced by the other, newer double. _The One I Love_ at first seems to be a kind of David Lynch horror film about a married couple who have a terrible relationship (think <a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2FB001152TL6%2Fref%3Dcm_cr_asin_lnk&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHGpTZGBqwxWynMRKKa3o3TLrH8EA" rel="noreferrer" style="color: #004b91;" target="_blank">Lost Highway</a> There are even scenes with iphones.) But then _The One I Love_ becomes very talkie and the couple seem to get happier and able to renew their marriage, like in a screwball comedy. The interest of _The One I Love_ is that it keeps you wondering which of the two genre it belongs to. And the achievement of the film is that it manages to be, turns, funny, frightening, disturbing, heart-warming, and sad. Perhaps the ending is strong, if you consider that the film combines but never reconciles or synthesizes the two genres. The ending seems open-ended: it is perhaps horribly happy, or happily horrible. There are only three characters, and the one played by Ted Danson disappears early on in the film. It's a very original film, and for that reason some people will dislike it, as the negative reviews here make clear. My wife and I only watched the film because I read it about it in an article about underrated films on Netflix. We were glad we did. You have to pay close attention to the film in order to follow and appreciate it. Even if you don't like my review, you may still like _The One I Love_.</div>
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Richard Burthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09967496685717379125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870295459979205312.post-47050702044520579542013-06-10T10:30:00.002-07:002013-06-10T10:32:50.743-07:00The Autocracy of University Administration<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Even post-research universities cling to the trappings of democracy. Post-research universities have a number of institutions that are supposed to give the faculty platforms to contribute to decision-making by higher administrators. One platform is the faculty senate. The senate itself is organized as a representative democracy. The members of the senate are elected. The faculty union is another. Faculty are free to join or not. These administrators of the faculty are elected by the senate. It may come as no surprise that the administrators pay lip service to so-called shared governance. I have already posted on the contempt administrators have for faculty. What may be more surprising that even the seemingly democratic faculty organization of a department is actually just as autocratic as the university is. Department Chairs are autocrats. To be sure, Chairs are elected by the department members and Deans usually go along with the wishes of the department. And there are committees dealing with merit pay, graduate admissions, and tenure and promotion, among other concerns. These committees are entirely powerless, however. They are, to use the rhetoric of a person in my department, "entirely advisory to the Chair." So the Chair will of course she herself or himself as always doing the right thing whether the department likes it or not while faculty will see, like any group will, the Chair's rewarding of some faculty members and not others as arbitrary, unethical, unjust. The admin is just a garden variety species of croneyism. The longer the same admin is power, the more illegitimate the Chair will become in the eyes of most department members. The sad result of autocracy is that morale plummets lower and lower and even the most highly distinguished members of the department finds themselves subjected to the sado-masochism of everyday academic life. The even sadder thing is that things could be otherwise.</div>
Richard Burthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09967496685717379125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870295459979205312.post-19490261050202284452013-06-10T09:09:00.003-07:002013-06-10T10:32:33.511-07:00Game of Thrones, end of season three<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Here are some thoughts on the se</span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">ries I wrote to a friend who said I should post them. So I have.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Many of these stories involve matching a national political struggle</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">to a romance (think Robin Hood and Maid Marion leading the Saxon</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">rebellion against the Normans). So far, GOT has refused to do this.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Redhaired witch is not in love with king she manipulates. Bastard who</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">escapes hangs out with burn victim girl--or is that deformed skin?</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Guy who lets him escape is childless and a widower. Starks are dead.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Theon is castrated. One hand brother is incestuous. Dwarf is in a</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">triangle. Bran is a little boy. His sister is a little girl (did</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">love the scene where she and he field the guys claiming to have cut</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">the wolf's head off). Blondie is like Queen Elizabeth, a virgin</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">mother. Funny that the hunky guy she seemed to like dropped out of</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">the finale. it's like all out sado-masochistic death drive has</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">overpowered any heteronormative plot development. Maybe the finale is</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">a symptom of that death drive and the stasis, the sense of waste that</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">comes with it--you don't get a story; you just get sensationalized</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">scenes that go nowhere. Even the escape scene with the</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">boat--presented as funny--has no direction--just follow that star and keep the coast in view, the old guy says.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Only Theon's sister lays out a rescue plot. And there's the vague</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">collective threat of the wild walkers in the oath. But even that</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">threat was staged as a scene--the opening of the first scene--that</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">ended as a story when Stark beheaded the deserter. It's as if bits of</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">stories were offered up here and there only as a ways of building</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">platforms on which horrific or sexy scenes can then be staged,</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">sometimes the sexy becoming violent or "perverted." The death drive</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">may also explain the plot holes since the multiple plots are all in</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">effect empty, ruses of linearity that actually stall out in static</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">scenes, quasi-tableaux vivant or </span>tableaux morte. The stalls are placed<br /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">effectively. you expect development and then it is cut</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">short--literally when Stark is beheaded. Have you noticed that there</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">have been very few battle scenes? Usually we see a battle about to</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 18px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">begin, the battle is skipped, and we go to the aftermath. The dwarf</span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">being knocked out during the battle is a good example. </span></span></blockquote>
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Richard Burthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09967496685717379125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870295459979205312.post-67265345631624571022013-03-31T15:22:00.003-07:002013-03-31T15:22:33.863-07:00Recommended Books, Recordings, and DVDs<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span><b>Ludwig Van (2008) Joseph Beuys (Actor), Carlos Feller (Actor), Mauricio Kagel (Director) | Rated: NR | Format: DVD</b></span></h2>
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<a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2FB000Y9LYY8%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFUe4TwQITVPfzF4D5pt7lxlL80XA" style="background-color: white; color: #0000cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/gp/<wbr></wbr>product/B000Y9LYY8/</a><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Peter Szendy discusses</span><table align="center" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="h" style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; padding: 5px 0px; width: 98%px;"><tbody>
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<span><b>Ludwig Van (2008)</b></span></h2>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> at the end of his wonderful book</span><br />
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<span id="btAsinTitle">Listen: A History of Our Ears</span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">. I just finished it</span><span style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">. Wow. It is really, really good.</span></h1>
<br style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" /><a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FListen-History-Ears-Peter-Szendy%2Fdp%2F0823228002%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNE-yJwb-FnZ3HH253aL2Jyd1eXjPA" style="background-color: white; color: #0000cc; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;" target="_blank">http://www.amazon.com/Listen-<wbr></wbr>History-Ears-Peter-Szendy/dp/<wbr></wbr>0823228002/</a><br />
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<span id="btAsinTitle">No Medium <span style="font-size: 16px; text-transform: capitalize;">[Hardcover]</span></span></h1>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF8&field-author=Craig%20Dworkin&search-alias=books&sort=relevancerank" style="color: #003399;">Craig Dworkin</a> <span class="byLinePipe" style="color: #666666;">(Author)</span></span><br />
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262018705/<br />
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George Dudamel's incredible conducting of<br />
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<span id="btAsinTitle">Mahler 9 [+digital booklet]</span></h1>
<span id="artistBlurb" style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00137J9YC/ref=dm_dp_adp?ie=UTF8&qid=1364768025&sr=301-4" style="color: #003399;">Los Angeles Philharmonic</a></span><span class="byLinePipe" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> </span><br />
http://www.amazon.com/Mahler-9-digital-booklet/dp/B00BDVVC4S/<br />
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I have listened to it over and over again.<br />
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<span id="btAsinTitle">Summa Technologiae (Electronic Mediations) <span style="font-size: 16px; text-transform: capitalize;">[Hardcover]</span></span></h1>
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?_encoding=UTF8&field-author=Stanis%20aw%20Lem&search-alias=books&sort=relevancerank" style="color: #003399;">Stanis aw Lem</a> <span class="byLinePipe" style="color: #666666;">(Author)</span>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_2?_encoding=UTF8&field-author=Joanna%20Zylinska&search-alias=books&sort=relevancerank" style="color: #003399;">Joanna Zylinska</a> <span class="byLinePipe" style="color: #666666;">(Translator)</span></span><br />
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http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0816675767/<br />
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We watched this amazingly good film noir last night:<br />
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<span id="btAsinTitle">The Locket (1946)</span></h1>
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&field-keywords=Laraine%20Day&ref=dp_dvd_bl_act&search-alias=dvd" style="color: #003399;">Laraine Day</a> <span class="byLinePipe" style="color: #666666;">(Actor)</span>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&field-keywords=Brian%20Aherne&ref=dp_dvd_bl_act&search-alias=dvd" style="color: #003399;">Brian Aherne</a> <span class="byLinePipe" style="color: #666666;">(Actor)</span>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&field-keywords=John%20Brahm&ref=dp_dvd_bl_dir&search-alias=dvd" style="color: #003399;">John Brahm</a> <span class="byLinePipe" style="color: #666666;">(Director)</span> </div>
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http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003YY2886/</div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Julia </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">Fischer is something to watch in </span></div>
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<span id="btAsinTitle">Saint-Saens: Violin Concerto No 3 / Greig: Piano (2010)</span></h1>
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http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003L0VJF6/</div>
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Recently saw this fascinating Rene Clair film for the first time:</div>
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000E0OBL0/ref=oh_details_o05_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1" style="color: #004b91; font-family: Arial, Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="item-title">Prix De Beaute (1930)</span></a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;"></span><div class="author" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Verdana, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16px;">
Louise Brooks, et al</div>
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http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000E0OBL0</div>
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Bought but have not yet read this new translation of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0199579504/ref=oh_details_o05_s00_i01?ie=UTF8&psc=1" style="color: #004b91; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="item-title">The Wild Ass's Skin (Oxford World's Classics)</span></a></div>
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Honoré de Balzac </div>
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http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0199579504/</div>
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Richard Burthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09967496685717379125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870295459979205312.post-34045104725977379492013-03-31T11:31:00.003-07:002013-03-31T11:31:44.571-07:00Post on Derrida's The Post Card and Poe<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Derrida and Poe both use the phrase "in the dark."<br />
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Here I am asking questions in the dark. Or in a penumbra, rather, the penumbra in which we keep ourselves when Freud’s unanalyzed reaches out its phosphorescent antennae.<br />
--Jacques Derrida, "To Speculate--On 'Freud'," <i>The Post Card</i>, trans. Alan Bass, 278<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'BookAntiqua'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">We had
been sitting in the dark, and Dupin now arose for the purpose of lighting a lamp, but
sat down again, without doing so, upon G.’s saying that he had called to consult us, or
rather to ask the opinion of my friend, about some official business which had
occasioned a great deal of trouble. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 12pt;">“If it is any point requiring reflection,” observed Dupin, as he forbore to enkindle the
wick, “we shall examine it to better purpose in the dark.”</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 19px;">--Edgar Allan Poe, "</span><span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 14pt;">THE PURLOINED LETTER" (first page)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: medium;">And here is the first </span><span style="font-family: BookAntiqua;"><span style="font-size: 19px;">sentence</span></span><span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: medium;"> of Poe's story:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'BookAntiqua'; font-size: 12.000000pt;">At Paris, just after dark one gusty evening in the autumn of 18—, I was
enjoying the twofold luxury of meditation and a meerschaum, in company with my
friend C. Auguste Dupin, in his little back library, or book-closet, <i>au troisieme, No. 33,
Rue Dunot, Faubourg St. Germain</i>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: BookAntiqua; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'BookAntiqua'; font-size: 12.000000pt;"> </span><br />
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Coincidence? Derrida does not use the phrase"in the dark" in his chapter on Lacan's reading of Poe's story, entitled "Le facteur de la verite." (not translated from French into English by Alan Bass, but meaning "The Purveyor / Postman of Truth"). Did Derrida post Poe back to Freud?<br />
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Richard Burthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09967496685717379125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870295459979205312.post-22258068568395130662013-03-30T20:16:00.003-07:002013-03-30T20:16:55.286-07:00Shakespeare reference in Holy Motors<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I noticed a perfect one for your conference in the film <i>Holy Motors</i> when I watched in last night. In a scene set in Père Lachaise, a gravestone says "Visit my site. ToBeOrNotToBe.Com." I laughed. It's just part of the mise-en-scene. There are other "visit my site " gravestone markers with nothing else. http://www.amazon.com/Holy-Motors-Blu-ray-Denis-Lavant/dp/B00A4W3AJC</div>
Richard Burthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09967496685717379125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870295459979205312.post-79815065873151285072013-03-30T20:08:00.003-07:002015-12-17T10:32:23.716-08:00Spring Breakers Fo-ev-ah, Bisquits<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I just saw Spring Breakers this afternoon. Yes, it is a good film, one big, long music video. The most interesting thing about the way it tells its linear narrative in a on-linear way (the editing frequently and unpredictably returns us to footage we've seen earlier and sometimes unpredictably skips ahead) is that the dialogue is almost all non-deigetic and also on a kind of "press replay" loop. I'd guess that at least half of the few moments with diegetic dialogue also have loud extra-diegetic music. The soundtrack is composed in by Skrillex and Cliff Martinez (Drive). The repeated sound of a shotgun locking was rather excessive, however. Btw, I have no idea who the actresses in the film are, but I thought all were good playing not that bad, bad, badder, and baddest "girls." Weird and rather disquieting that the villains are all black people, however. They all die, while all the white b*****es live. (OK, one does get shot in the arm and then goes home.) <br />
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_Breakers<br />
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The film tells a sad (supposed to be sentimental?) story about (bad) grrrl (that is the correct spelling of "grrrl," btw) power and white trash Gangstas. The trailer makes the film seem salacious. I didn't think the film was, not that I would have minded if it had been. (Yes, there is nudity and man, many shots of lots and lots scantily clad people, some of whom are engaging in activities in which today's hard partying college youth may or not not actually engage. You can always drive to Daytona and find out for yourselves, I guess. Me, I have no idea.) <br />
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Lots of inventive camera work and equally inventive uses of different film stocks and video (or digital simulations of same.).<br />
This is the lead track, which I find hilarious.Keep listening for the vocal.<br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSeNSzJ2-Jw" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr></wbr>v=WSeNSzJ2-Jw</a><br />
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<span style="color: #888888;">My second fave track:</span><br />
<span style="color: #888888;">http://lights.elliegoulding.com/</span><br />
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To cite one of the lines that gets looped many times, "Spring Break Fo-Ev-Ah, Bisquits." ("Biscuits" is not the actual word used in the film; that word, the word in the film, rhymes with biscuits, begins with a "b" and sends with an "s.") This message has been rated B, for Burt.</div>
Richard Burthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09967496685717379125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870295459979205312.post-51425435850103778752013-03-24T08:22:00.004-07:002013-03-24T08:22:54.431-07:00burt hurts with out posts, outburts, and various and sundry tele-communiques, etc. etc. <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I want to add to my blog title <br />
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<span><b>burthurts, with out posts, outburts, and various and sundry tele-communiques, etc. etc.</b></span></h2>
However, I cannot apparently change the title of my blog.</div>
Richard Burthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09967496685717379125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870295459979205312.post-37384028491762897812013-03-15T14:13:00.000-07:002013-03-15T14:37:24.491-07:00Don't ask, Pa-tells<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span class="userContent">Cyrus Patell, an Associate Dean at NYU, must
be the most idiotic administrator who ever lived. He wrote a long
response, I'm told, to my reply to his sycophantic blog post defending
the authoritarian power structure of NYU. Power gets to be silent and
non-responsive as well as to speak. Every now then it has to speak to
justify itself to those people it holds in contempt. And then power has
to justify or walk back the stupid kind of speech it should never have
delivered in the first place. See patell.org for the latest. </span></div>
Richard Burthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09967496685717379125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870295459979205312.post-55667659955534730912013-03-14T15:02:00.002-07:002013-06-10T09:39:50.389-07:00The Administrative Mind: Why Do University Administrators Hate Faculty? <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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What a post! The world owes <span class="site-description"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cyrus R. K. Patell a huge
debt for providing his readers such insight into the administrative mind in
“Who’s Confused?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone concerned
with higher education ought to read it and post it as widely as possible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have linked it here: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">http://patell.org/2013/03/whos-confused/ </span>And I have reactivated my Facebook account
just to post a link to it as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Patell’sblog post is a great follow up to the confusing NY Times article
on NYU at <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/04/nyregion/nyu-gives-lavish-parting-gifts-to-some-star-officials.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/04/nyregion/nyu-gives-lavish-parting-gifts-to-some-star-officials.html</a></span></span></div>
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<span class="site-description"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You might think that the role of the university is to
produce informed citizens who will participate in our liberal democracy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You might think that faculty, the people who
do research and actually teach students the intellectual and technical latest
developments in their chosen majors, would be at the center of the
university.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You might think that the
role of university administrators would be to support faculty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Think again!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>An administrator himself, Associate Dean Cyrus R. K. Patell has
certainly disabused us of any such naïve notions in his column.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Patell is not at all confusing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Faculty, he says, are not citizens in a
university.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because the university is not a
democracy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But not to worry!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For democracy isn’t a good thing either,
according to Patell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why can’t Obama
just dictate?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Forget about that circuit court
decision ruling that Obamas recess appointments were unconstitutional. Forget
about the Republicans in the 111<sup>th</sup> and 112<sup>th</sup> U.S Congress
being the most obstructionist in the history of the United States.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, “debate” in Congress is just<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a waste of time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Too bad we aren't living in Abu dabi, I guess.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, at least we can take solace in the fact
that <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the university is an authoritarian,
top down structure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And academic
freedom?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How dumb to think faculty
should have it! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cyrus Patell knows it so
stupid that it isn’t even worth mentioning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Why would any administrator write such a candid and revealing a blog post like
Patell’s?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apparently, he just can’t stop
himself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Citing with great approval a
passage written by Stanley Fish, reveals with almost blinding clarity the
absolute contempt in which university administrators hold faculty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here it is:</span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">At
the end of my tenure as dean, I spoke to some administrators who had been on
the job for a short enough time to be able to still remember what it was like
to be a faculty member and what thoughts they had then about the work they did
now. One said that she had come to realize how narcissistic academics are: an
academic, she mused, is focused entirely on the intellectual stock market and
watches its rises and falls with an anxious and self-regarding eye. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As an academic, you’re trying to get ahead; as
an administrator, you’re trying “to make things happen for other people”;
you’re “not advancing your own profile but advancing the institution, and
you’re more service oriented.”</span></div>
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<span class="site-description"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Ah, yes, the days when I was just another narcissistic
faculty member, the days before I became an Associate Dean and could “make things happen for other people,”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> those</span> “other people” who in the administrative mind obviously do not include faculty who work in a system which evaluates them as individual persons, not as members of a collective. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, “advancing
the institution,” means working to help administrators, or in the case of NYU, helping them leave NYU with huge
retirement packages, packages so huge that the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">NY Times</i> even ran a story about it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/04/nyregion/nyu-gives-lavish-parting-gifts-to-some-star-officials.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/04/nyregion/nyu-gives-lavish-parting-gifts-to-some-star-officials.html</a>
The<i> NY Times </i>interview Patell spends his blog attacking is a follow up. You might very well
think that Patell is a time-server, a lackey, a sycophant, a failed academic
who didn’t publish enough to be promoted to full professor, a courtier who,
like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, makes love to his employment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You might very well think that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Patell<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>should be congratulated for showing us the contempt in which
self-servicing university administrators so richly deserve to be held.</span></span></div>
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<span class="site-description"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">By the way, my grandfather went to Harvard, like Patell.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Some years ago, </span>I scanned and posted on FB the letter admitting him
and his twin brother that the then Dean of Harvard, no doubt “revered,” wrote to my
great-grandmother.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, regarding the Puritans
Patell mentions: My mother is a direct descendant of Governor Winslow. </span></span></div>
</div>
Richard Burthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09967496685717379125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870295459979205312.post-68712237099100853182012-11-13T08:25:00.003-08:002012-11-13T08:25:40.495-08:00EVEN IF YOU HAVE NO POWER<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
EVEN IF YOU HAVE NO POWER, YOU ALWAYS HAVE THE POWER OF "NO."</div>
Richard Burthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09967496685717379125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870295459979205312.post-57194862666853984812012-10-26T07:28:00.003-07:002013-03-15T14:38:21.135-07:00"Argo, F Yourself!"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: 16pt;">I </span><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria;"> saw
<i>Argo </i>yesterday at the Cobblehill Theater in Brooklyn with my friend
Hai-Dang Phan. It’s a well-made, entertaining thriller, but especially
interesting to me for the way it displays so clearly the way people in the U.S.
understand their history as a deferred wish-fulfillment. (Btw, </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">Argo,
fuck yourself! is a running joke in the film. Alan Arkin, the producer
says it to a reporter asking what the film is about.) </span><span style="font-size: 16pt;">The ending of the film is
the worst part but also the most interesting. Spoiler alert.
Affleck’s character, who is separated from his wife and a very heavy drinker,
if not an alcoholic, comes home and asks his wife if he can “come
in.” She hugs him and says nothing, but she is smiling and all
happy, happy. The first shot of Affleck on the veranda shows a big
American flag blowing in the upper left part of the screen. Male
hero equals national hero. The family is restored. But not
really. The next shot is of Affleck in bed with his son, who is sleeping
in Affleck’s arms, but totally awake, and the camera tracks left to show part
of the son’s star wars collection of action figures or figurines. They are
pretty small scale. There are at least three dissolves to close-ups of
the collection, each take feeling extraordinarily long, at least to me, until
finally we get to a storyboard for the bogus film that we saw Affleck keep back
from the archivist earlier (Affleck was supposed to turn over all the other
docs and did so, except for this one). The storyboard, around which text about what </span><span style="font-size: 21px;">happened later,</span><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> shows the hero on some kind of space motorbike with a little
boy holding on to him. Mirror image of Affleck and his son. Two
points about the film's delivery of U.S. history as yet to be fulfilled
fantasy: first, the family is not really restored. The wife is
hardly there and immediately drops out. The son is safe and asleep, but
Dad is still on duty, his heroism invisible (what he did remains classified).
Second, national history is only intelligible indirectly, through the sci-fi
movie. History begins returns only through science-fiction fantasy. The <i>Star
Wars</i> shots recycle the film as Reagan’s never built anti-ballistic missile
defense system, called Star Wars. The length of the takes at the end
grant the wish or family reunion only through deferral which looks forward to </span><i style="font-size: 16pt;">Star
Wars i</i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">n a future anterior, since the film has already been released but
Reagan has not yet been elected, and back via the stolen storyboard, to the
sci-fi film <i>Argo </i>that one of the hostages used to get himself and the other
five hostages through the final checkpoint, which was itself a story of he
Iranian revolution, and back to the moment when Affleck got the idea for the op
while watching </span><i style="font-size: 16pt;">Battle for the Planet of the Apes</i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> on TV with his
son. The son is father of the man.
Son is watching it at his home, Mom is gone, and Affleck turns the
channel in his hotel room so he can watch it too at the same time. The
clips from </span><i style="font-size: 16pt;">Battle the Planet of the Apes</i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> show the black astronaut with
two apes and ends with a close up of an orangantan. That film is openly
an allegory of the race wars of the 60s and recycles racist images of blacks
represented as apes. (Think </span><i style="font-size: 16pt;">King Kong</i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">.) Affleck notices the
make-up and gets the idea to call the guy who did it, who has also done work
for the C.I.A. There are lots of clips of TV news anchors (Peter
Jennings, Walter Chronkite, Ted Koppel) reporting on the hostage crisis, but
Affleck only gets it, the rescue op, when he tunes into his son’s channel. And he only pursues it after calling his son
and missing him (shot of phone, no one home). So he writes a birthday card to
his son and wife and drops in the mail at the airport. Communication delay, letter never arrives at its destination. The film begins with a sequence about the US
involvement in Iran that derives from </span><i style="font-size: 16pt;">Persepolis</i><span style="font-size: 16pt;">. It is narrated by a
girl in voice-over as a kind of animated graphic novel (anticipating the <i>Argo </i>storyboards later and also echoing in advance an Iranian servant of the Canadian ambassador who is forced to leave to Iraq near the end of the film). From start to finish, we get history delivered in
pre-production movie form or animated storybook form or in collectible sci-fi
film merchandise. This sequence is refreshingly critical of the
U.S. it sort of drops out as the <i>Argo</i> fantasy recodes it as a story of
miniature American and Canadian triumphalism (the rest of the hostages remained
in captivity, of course). So the scale of the story is the scale of the
toys in the son’s </span><i style="font-size: 16pt;">Star Wars</i><span style="font-size: 16pt;"> toy collection, and the son’s collection forgets
the history of U.S. race war and remembers what is to come rather than what has
happened. The re-collection is already compulsive, looping back and
forward a moment when the wish can actually be fulfilled, a moment that
never arrives and never will, or does so only as a moment represented as the
deferral of said wish. Every covert op is part
of a lo-“op.” No op is opt(imal).</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Richard Burthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09967496685717379125noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2870295459979205312.post-87545249841302528922012-10-12T18:06:00.005-07:002012-10-12T18:29:43.787-07:00Til Death Do Us Depart: Cold Feet in Trollope's _Can You Forgive Her?_ <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Can you be happy as a woman and not marry? That is the question Trollope poses in <i>Can You Forgive Her? </i> The answer is no. Yes, Alice knows John Grey loves. Yes, she knows he loves her. But nevertheless she cannot marry him. Why? In part because because she misreads him. But this novel is no <i>Pride and Prejudice</i>. A woman can't marry and be happy either. This novel is about marriage being death. Here is what the narrator says about Planty Pall, Gencora's husband, after he has decided to refuse the once in a lifetime offer he has sought his entire adulthood trying to obtain, namely the office of he Chancellor of the Exchequer, in order to save his marriage by taking his wife on a tour of Europe for a year: "All
his friends knew, or believed they knew, that he had left town. His death and burial had been chronicled, and
were he now <span style="font-size: small;">to reappear, he could
reappear only as a ghost. He was being talked of as the departed one;--or
rather, such talk on all sides had now come nearly to an end." p. 561 Glencora wants to leave her husband because she cannot give him an heir. When John Grey finally gets Alice to accept his proposal, she does so in a graveyard. In my view of the novel, a woman who doesn't marry, like a woman who does, already has one foot in the grave. The central scene of </span>the<span style="font-size: small;"> novel occurs when Alice go for a walk in the ruins near Matching, her home, and Glencora keeps them out to long. They come home with cold feet, and Planty blames Alice. </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"> The scene is mentioned again and again in the novel, even near the very end. "Cold" iS used again and again. Planty gives Glencora a "cold kiss." A dead husband is buried in the "cold sod." Funny when you think of it. Trollope's </span><i style="line-height: 18px;">The Warden </i><span style="line-height: 18px;">is missing its second volume. The heroine who gets married in a narrative rush at the end is already a widow at the beginning of </span><i style="line-height: 18px;">Barchester Towers</i><span style="line-height: 18px;">. The story of their seemingly happy marriage is never told. Trollope seems to be even more anti-marriage than Hardy. Who'd have thought? </span></span></span></div>
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