“..My eighth observation is that there is really no longer a vital, high-art avant-garde in American poetry. Modernism is irretrievably, inarguably dead. It has been dead as a profitable avenue for young poets for at least twenty years, and now almost all of its great practitioners have gone to meet their maker. The university, an […]
The Downward Spiral
depravity
..musing about labels and names: gender, relationship and sex bloggers
“..I bit my tongue and stood in line With not much to believe in I bought into what I was sold And ended up with nothing This is not my idea of a good time ..” – Garbage, “not my idea” This started as a comment at Poetry of Flesh’s blog… but it got too […]
elites and expert classes in post-Democratic societies
[ed. just correcting some typos. 5/2/2010] I think that the notion of a power elite still has some validity, but in our post-democratic Western societies, it’s of a much different nature than people think when they think of terms like “The Establishment” or “the Elite” Establishments exist, Europeans typically have a more realistic understanding of […]