<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post1299585737306064737..comments</id><updated>2011-07-13T16:13:18.645-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Silliman&#39;s Blog: </title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1299585737306064737/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/benjamins-grave-portbou-spain-so-what.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>21</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2444840059945614103</id><published>2008-08-17T16:01:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-17T16:01:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Andy, the fence is a symbol of the failure of nati...</title><summary type='text'>Andy, the fence is a symbol of the failure of nations to address their respective economic crises.  In Mexico, that&#39;s meant government corruption on such a grand scale, there&#39;s a virtual moral chaos at all levels of transaction.  That leads to a demoralization--intelligent people, even (or especially) those without sophisticated education can quickly decide that running away is the ONLY option.  </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1299585737306064737/comments/default/2444840059945614103'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1299585737306064737/comments/default/2444840059945614103'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/benjamins-grave-portbou-spain-so-what.html?showComment=1219003260000#c2444840059945614103' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/benjamins-grave-portbou-spain-so-what.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1299585737306064737' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1299585737306064737' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 17, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7895800660111704662</id><published>2008-08-15T13:32:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-15T13:32:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Eliot is funny? Mostly when he doesn&#39;t mean to be....</title><summary type='text'>Eliot is funny? Mostly when he doesn&#39;t mean to be. His actual attempts at jokes tend to fall as flat as the 2-D caricature of anti-intellectualism &quot;Burns&quot; presents.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Kirby--&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;In my own experience, Ron&#39;s comment resonates with my experience of dissatisfaction when I was first reading a bunch of theory from the &#39;50s through the early &#39;90s. All these fascinating philosophers and</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1299585737306064737/comments/default/7895800660111704662'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1299585737306064737/comments/default/7895800660111704662'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/benjamins-grave-portbou-spain-so-what.html?showComment=1218821520000#c7895800660111704662' title=''/><author><name>Andy Gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04367834692026653431</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/benjamins-grave-portbou-spain-so-what.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1299585737306064737' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1299585737306064737' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1668048852"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 15, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4891224103145646858</id><published>2008-08-15T13:23:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-15T13:23:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I&amp;#39;m with Ian and, to a significantly limited e...</title><summary type='text'>I&amp;#39;m with Ian and, to a significantly limited extent, Curtis, on your equation of trying to keep jobs in the U.S. with the building of the wall on the Mexican border. The failure, here, to distniguish between types of globalism and between types of response to it sounds much more like neoliberalism than Marx, unless it&amp;#39;s Marx via the Soviet ideology that similarly makes the global a big </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1299585737306064737/comments/default/4891224103145646858'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1299585737306064737/comments/default/4891224103145646858'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/benjamins-grave-portbou-spain-so-what.html?showComment=1218820980000#c4891224103145646858' title=''/><author><name>Andy Gricevich</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/04367834692026653431</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/benjamins-grave-portbou-spain-so-what.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1299585737306064737' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1299585737306064737' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1668048852"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 15, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2218507489419847758</id><published>2008-08-15T13:12:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-15T13:12:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Last week, thank&#39;s to Ron&#39;s link, I read the 2007 ...</title><summary type='text'>Last week, thank&#39;s to Ron&#39;s link, I read the 2007 Guelph Jazz Festival keynote address by Anthony Braxton where he said:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;I&gt;When we approach things with a positive perspective, all kinds of things can open up. I think of the wonder of the orchestra. The orchestra is really a family and if the orchestra functions as a family you can hear the difference in the sound and music becomes </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1299585737306064737/comments/default/2218507489419847758'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1299585737306064737/comments/default/2218507489419847758'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/benjamins-grave-portbou-spain-so-what.html?showComment=1218820320000#c2218507489419847758' title=''/><author><name>speterme</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/17055890133721456106</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/benjamins-grave-portbou-spain-so-what.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1299585737306064737' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1299585737306064737' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1987501952"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 15, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3544514785627123200</id><published>2008-08-15T10:50:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-15T10:50:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Gosh.  That&#39;s absolutely everything ever.  You peo...</title><summary type='text'>Gosh.  That&#39;s absolutely everything ever.  You people have discussed and generalized all things in the history of the whole world.  You&#39;re like a salon of the greatest intellects who have ever lived.  How did you all get so super-brilliant?  And where do I get some?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1299585737306064737/comments/default/3544514785627123200'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1299585737306064737/comments/default/3544514785627123200'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/benjamins-grave-portbou-spain-so-what.html?showComment=1218811800000#c3544514785627123200' title=''/><author><name>Toast</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/15239283385268255066</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/benjamins-grave-portbou-spain-so-what.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1299585737306064737' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1299585737306064737' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1140503440"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 15, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2826173734678211428</id><published>2008-08-14T10:34:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-14T10:34:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ian:  I think we&amp;#39;re much closer than you think...</title><summary type='text'>Ian:  I think we&amp;#39;re much closer than you think.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I&amp;#39;m perfectly willing to allow a Jungian interpolation--or overlay--or, however you want to name it--of the &amp;quot;spirit&amp;quot; of a civilization being &amp;quot;expressed&amp;quot; through individuals.  But that&amp;#39;s not the same thing as saying a specific theoretical rubric serves as the basis (&amp;amp; blueprint) and justification for a </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1299585737306064737/comments/default/2826173734678211428'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1299585737306064737/comments/default/2826173734678211428'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/benjamins-grave-portbou-spain-so-what.html?showComment=1218724440000#c2826173734678211428' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/benjamins-grave-portbou-spain-so-what.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1299585737306064737' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1299585737306064737' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 14, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6227621988343163798</id><published>2008-08-13T23:26:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-13T23:26:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis,These contentions depend on whether you bel...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis,These contentions depend on whether you believe that there is always a theoretical component that enters a work unconsciously, not whether that theory is simple or complex or whether the work of art functions conciously to illustrate a critical concept.  Illusion can exist in fragmented, irrational form, beyond monotheism and theorists or some propagandist function.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Perhaps you </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1299585737306064737/comments/default/6227621988343163798'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1299585737306064737/comments/default/6227621988343163798'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/benjamins-grave-portbou-spain-so-what.html?showComment=1218684360000#c6227621988343163798' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/benjamins-grave-portbou-spain-so-what.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1299585737306064737' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1299585737306064737' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 13, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-2564481476585625888</id><published>2008-08-13T11:47:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-13T11:47:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I didn&#39;t understand the remark against the 19th ce...</title><summary type='text'>I didn&#39;t understand the remark against the 19th century novel.  Was this a kind of chronocentric remark that the past doesn&#39;t matter to Ron, only the present matters, or was it a hit against Benjamin&#39;s exhumation of 19th century poetry, or the fact that Benjamin was &quot;steeped in the ambience of Lutheran and counter-Reformation art and drama, with their decisive bias towards allegory&quot; (The Origin </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1299585737306064737/comments/default/2564481476585625888'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1299585737306064737/comments/default/2564481476585625888'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/benjamins-grave-portbou-spain-so-what.html?showComment=1218642420000#c2564481476585625888' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/benjamins-grave-portbou-spain-so-what.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1299585737306064737' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1299585737306064737' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 13, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7055941565811058668</id><published>2008-08-13T11:16:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-13T11:16:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>My best to the Schemer family and all the young ba...</title><summary type='text'>My best to the Schemer family and all the young bards that emerged from your Tennyson lectures.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1299585737306064737/comments/default/7055941565811058668'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1299585737306064737/comments/default/7055941565811058668'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/benjamins-grave-portbou-spain-so-what.html?showComment=1218640560000#c7055941565811058668' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/benjamins-grave-portbou-spain-so-what.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1299585737306064737' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1299585737306064737' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 13, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1330323237858497471</id><published>2008-08-13T10:58:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-13T10:58:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ian, I like your remark about Ron&#39;s shifting betwe...</title><summary type='text'>Ian, I like your remark about Ron&#39;s shifting between Das Kapital and the Wall Street Journal--that&#39;s something I thought but didn&#39;t say.  &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Eliot&#39;s Waste Land footnotes have been a controversial aspect of that work for generations.  How much credit was due, and to whom?  We can talk endlessly about the religious ideas that motivated Eliot, but ideas and theories don&#39;t write poems; poets </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1299585737306064737/comments/default/1330323237858497471'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1299585737306064737/comments/default/1330323237858497471'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/benjamins-grave-portbou-spain-so-what.html?showComment=1218639480000#c1330323237858497471' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/benjamins-grave-portbou-spain-so-what.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1299585737306064737' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1299585737306064737' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 13, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6018422591909419193</id><published>2008-08-13T09:05:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-13T09:05:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>But, Ron, what am I to think of a work &quot;content to...</title><summary type='text'>But, Ron, what am I to think of a work &quot;content to fixate&quot; on a 16th or 17th century genre, extinct now for centuries? Am I somehow to think that the Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels does not &quot;approximate the best of Walter Benjamin&quot;?</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1299585737306064737/comments/default/6018422591909419193'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1299585737306064737/comments/default/6018422591909419193'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/benjamins-grave-portbou-spain-so-what.html?showComment=1218632700000#c6018422591909419193' title=''/><author><name>Kirk Johnson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/12714098498354846094</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/benjamins-grave-portbou-spain-so-what.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1299585737306064737' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1299585737306064737' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-458221395"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 13, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6624383766545013921</id><published>2008-08-13T02:18:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-13T02:18:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Ian,You confirm what I have suspected for a long w...</title><summary type='text'>Ian,&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;You confirm what I have suspected for a long while, that theory people don&#39;t actually know how to read. Eliot&#39;s prefatory comments to his notes to The Waste Land, as well as many of the notes themselves, are funny. If you haven&#39;t figured out as much by the time you read the phrases &quot;vegetation ceremonies&quot; and &quot;certain references&quot; to them, there isn&#39;t much to be done about it. &lt;BR/&gt;&lt;</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1299585737306064737/comments/default/6624383766545013921'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1299585737306064737/comments/default/6624383766545013921'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/benjamins-grave-portbou-spain-so-what.html?showComment=1218608280000#c6624383766545013921' title=''/><author><name>schemer</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09650277093139190296</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/benjamins-grave-portbou-spain-so-what.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1299585737306064737' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1299585737306064737' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1974897522"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 13, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8157028288595137374</id><published>2008-08-12T23:57:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-12T23:57:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>The way you equate opposition to hemispheric trade...</title><summary type='text'>The way you equate opposition to hemispheric trade agreements with protectionism indicates the habit of skipping back and forth between Das Kapital and the Wall Street Journal.  The defeat of FTAA was a triumph of hemispheric cooperation, activism, understanding, and information sharing.  The corporate press repeats the refrain that any reluctance to accept trade agreements negotiated secretly </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1299585737306064737/comments/default/8157028288595137374'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1299585737306064737/comments/default/8157028288595137374'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/benjamins-grave-portbou-spain-so-what.html?showComment=1218599820000#c8157028288595137374' title=''/><author><name>Ian Keenan</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/16596558654735506132</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/benjamins-grave-portbou-spain-so-what.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1299585737306064737' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1299585737306064737' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1591342472"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 12, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-7069393535416401831</id><published>2008-08-12T18:44:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-12T18:44:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I like it when you raise theoretical questions.  I...</title><summary type='text'>I like it when you raise theoretical questions.  I would like to ask a couple of questions, tiny ones.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Why is it that Marxism has to take over the whole world before it works?  This is kind of what the Islamists are saying, too.  We need the whole world, and no one should be outside of our world. Then we will have peace.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;What&#39;s odd is that the Lutherans take a tiy bit of scrap </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1299585737306064737/comments/default/7069393535416401831'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1299585737306064737/comments/default/7069393535416401831'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/benjamins-grave-portbou-spain-so-what.html?showComment=1218581040000#c7069393535416401831' title=''/><author><name>Kirby Olson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05952289700191142943</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/benjamins-grave-portbou-spain-so-what.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1299585737306064737' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1299585737306064737' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1262696662"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 12, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5937643164286945118</id><published>2008-08-12T14:25:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-12T14:25:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>My objections are far too numerous to record here,...</title><summary type='text'>My objections are far too numerous to record here, but I&amp;#39;ll pick off a few high (low?) spots:&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;&amp;quot;There is no such thing as a poem without a theory.&amp;quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;This is only partly true.  Most poets work within a set of guidelines which they accept as givens.  Page, type, language, grammar, length &amp;amp; breadth, breath, size, etc.  But these aren&amp;#39;t really &amp;quot;theories&amp;quot</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1299585737306064737/comments/default/5937643164286945118'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1299585737306064737/comments/default/5937643164286945118'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/benjamins-grave-portbou-spain-so-what.html?showComment=1218565500000#c5937643164286945118' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/benjamins-grave-portbou-spain-so-what.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1299585737306064737' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1299585737306064737' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1900230786"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 12, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-8519866574403582110</id><published>2008-08-12T13:45:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-12T13:45:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I think the great stone weighing down the possibil...</title><summary type='text'>I think the great stone weighing down the possibility of a renewal of  Large Fictions, is not so much story telling, as world building, the defining contribution of the 18th-19th Century novel.  The fictive universe, sealed in narrative closure, is shut off from any world we live it. It is of necessity, not our world, not anyone&#39;s world, but an aesthetically constructed dream, an alternative to </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1299585737306064737/comments/default/8519866574403582110'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1299585737306064737/comments/default/8519866574403582110'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/benjamins-grave-portbou-spain-so-what.html?showComment=1218563100000#c8519866574403582110' title=''/><author><name>Jacob Russell</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='31' height='21' src='http://bp1.blogger.com/_MH8FpmUWEp8/R5c6tzFt2dI/AAAAAAAAABk/aremvSfbycE/S220/011_13A.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/benjamins-grave-portbou-spain-so-what.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1299585737306064737' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1299585737306064737' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-512040712"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 12, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-4768631169942496559</id><published>2008-08-12T13:24:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-12T13:24:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>So, Walter Benjamin, Roberto Bolano, Jack Spicer, ...</title><summary type='text'>So, Walter Benjamin, Roberto Bolano, Jack Spicer, and Allen Ginsberg are all sitting together, smoking hash....&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;...what happens next?&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;There can be no movement of theory where there is no action. We spend more time talking about poetry than talking poetry.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;I saw in one of the Darwish articles that the world just lost its last poet that could fill a stadium. Nature abhors</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1299585737306064737/comments/default/4768631169942496559'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1299585737306064737/comments/default/4768631169942496559'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/benjamins-grave-portbou-spain-so-what.html?showComment=1218561840000#c4768631169942496559' title=''/><author><name>Mikey Golightly</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/00341999648487896777</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/benjamins-grave-portbou-spain-so-what.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1299585737306064737' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1299585737306064737' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-2085756026"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 12, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5313473215635434784</id><published>2008-08-12T13:12:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-12T13:12:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I agree that flarfetic gestures are replete with t...</title><summary type='text'>I agree that flarfetic gestures are replete with theory, in that they are replete with self-consciousness, field- (as in &quot;the field of literature) consciousness, and world-consciousness.  I think it&#39;s important to say, though, that the style did not begin as theory; it began as a lark (if a lark indulged in by writers who were hardly *innocent* of theory). The theory keeps getting extrapolated </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1299585737306064737/comments/default/5313473215635434784'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1299585737306064737/comments/default/5313473215635434784'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/benjamins-grave-portbou-spain-so-what.html?showComment=1218561120000#c5313473215635434784' title=''/><author><name>Nada</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01448534316756256503</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://static.flickr.com/119/316140010_e2bd73b381_s.jpg'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/benjamins-grave-portbou-spain-so-what.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1299585737306064737' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1299585737306064737' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1564832188"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 12, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-5146876222848074785</id><published>2008-08-12T10:33:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-12T10:33:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>It&#39;s indispensible to theory that it has to sound ...</title><summary type='text'>It&#39;s indispensible to theory that it has to sound plausible.  But because plausibility is subjective, theory will always have a hard time reaching what you call use, it seems to me.  But I&#39;m no philosopher.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Anyway, Benjamin, in &quot;The Storyteller,&quot; shows how the rise of the novel has corresponded with the &quot;bottomless&quot; falling in value of personal experience and artisan forms of </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1299585737306064737/comments/default/5146876222848074785'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1299585737306064737/comments/default/5146876222848074785'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/benjamins-grave-portbou-spain-so-what.html?showComment=1218551580000#c5146876222848074785' title=''/><author><name>Don Share</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/03446230480847015806</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/benjamins-grave-portbou-spain-so-what.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1299585737306064737' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1299585737306064737' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1011881777"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 12, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-3940174114304194804</id><published>2008-08-12T10:18:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-12T10:18:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>I appreciate this immensely, though physically I a...</title><summary type='text'>I appreciate this immensely, though physically I am these days only 10/17ths the size of an average American male.&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;My background is somewhat different from yours but is moving in a similar direction.  It wasn&#39;t until I read your &lt;B&gt;The New Sentence&lt;/B&gt; that I became aware of Benjamin.  Actually, the non-literary influences in my life have been more important than the lieterary ones, </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1299585737306064737/comments/default/3940174114304194804'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1299585737306064737/comments/default/3940174114304194804'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/benjamins-grave-portbou-spain-so-what.html?showComment=1218550680000#c3940174114304194804' title=''/><author><name>brian salchert</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/11649691450577647656</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/benjamins-grave-portbou-spain-so-what.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1299585737306064737' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1299585737306064737' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1297934363"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 12, 2008"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-6159168710227906391</id><published>2008-08-12T10:00:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2008-08-12T10:00:00.000-04:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;I see where I have made plenty of poetsbut not so...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;I see where I have made plenty of poets&lt;BR/&gt;but not so very much&lt;BR/&gt;poetry.&quot;&lt;BR/&gt;&lt;BR/&gt;Buk actually. Quoting God.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1299585737306064737/comments/default/6159168710227906391'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/1299585737306064737/comments/default/6159168710227906391'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/benjamins-grave-portbou-spain-so-what.html?showComment=1218549600000#c6159168710227906391' title=''/><author><name>Lute</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/09581428138651759605</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2008/08/benjamins-grave-portbou-spain-so-what.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-1299585737306064737' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/1299585737306064737' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-587115507"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="August 12, 2008"/></entry></feed>