Extra stuff from Hausman essay
Here’s some stuff that never made it into my essay…thought I’d share it. My essay was about the ‘Nunnerator’. This is where I end my essay, but I have one more point to make and I reckon it is way too far-fetched to be considered a justifiable reason as to why a frame narrative is […]
Revisiting an Old Friend: Oedipus
I know that Oedipus the King was our first ever text for Arts One and that today was the day of our final exam, but it would be selfish of me to not share this amazing discovery. As I was listening to one of my favorite songs, Demons by the Imagine Dragons, I realized how it almost seems like the entire song is narrating the life of Oedipus. I’d love to explain how I they relate to one another, but then the song is as self-explanatory as it gets. So,…read more
In Between The Spaces
Subjectively speaking, describing Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli’s comic rendition of Paul Auster’s City of Glass as interesting is quite rather an understatement. One of the many things that caught my attention is the unusual use of transitions between panels. In reference to Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics, Blood in the Gutter, there are two peculiar transitions used in City of Glass that may be considered as orthodox in the context mainstream comics. Such panel transitions are what McCloud refers to as moment-to-moment and non-sequitur type of transitions. Moment-to-moment transitions are…read more
the logic behind Peter Stilman’s theories?
Henry Dark aka Peter Stilman, has all these theories about the tower of babel, fall of men, fall of language that I got really confused about because he doesn’t link (or very vaguely he does) any of them back to how it would actually help with mankind learning the language of god. When I say we […]
Virtual panopticon
This is my take on panopticism in the virtual world. If you are on social media, you’ve voluntarily become part of a virtual panopticon. I think it is reasonable to say that Social Media is modeled after Bentham’s panopticon. Just like the users in the cubicles in panopticons and of social media accounts can be […]
Plato’s treatment of the arts
I did my rewrite on Plato and realized how much I’ve changed over the year pretty much since my very first arts one essay and I also realized (too late now) that a little bit of research goes a long way…it’s kinda like having a virtual arts one seminar…pulling in new ideas…but with people online…and […]
Why we should probably just take off all of our clothes
The theme of identity pervades throughout Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli’s adaptation of Paul Auster’s City of Glass. From as early as page 7, where he comments on how he “had long ago stopped thinking of himself as real” (Karasik 7) and as Paul Auster the detective stands next to him answering the phone, it seems […]
Racial Inequality in Jazz
Although Vera Louise’s silence of Golden Gray’s biracial identity can be interpreted as an action done out of her love towards him, her decision to remain quiet over his black heritage served as a window to the discrimination black people faced during the twentieth century. By staying silent Vera Louise did not only protect her […]
Questioning Validity in Austerlitz Through Grammatical Pecularities
When I was reading Sebald’s Austerlitz I was surprised to have noticed an absence of quotation marks. Because of this lack of quotation marks, I felt that the story of Austerlitz the narrator was giving to us lacked validity. Through evocative language in the narrative structure, Austerlitz’s recollection of his past was brought to a rich […]
What is the Prelapsarian Language?
In Stillman’s first conversation with the protagonist the story invokes an idea that language in its prelapsarian state involves words correlating to an object’s function and physical exterior. When Quinn asks Stillman his purpose for collecting broken objects, Stillman replies that he’s “invent[ing] new words that would correspond to the things”. This can be interpreted as … Continue reading What is the Prelapsarian Language? →