January 7, 2007

• Happy Birthday, Nicolas Cage: Part II

  Birthday Greetings
  to Nicolas Cage
  from Marxists.org

  
  Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism--

  Various forms of "the modern movement" that include "... the modernist school of poetry (as institutionalised
  and canonised in the works of Wallace Stevens) all are now seen
  as the final, extraordinary flowering of a high-modernist impulse
  which is spent and exhausted..." --marxists.org:

  "One of the primary critiques of modernism that Learning from Las Vegas
  was engaged in, as Frederic [sic] Jameson clearly noted, was the dialectic
  between inside and outside and the assumption that the outside
  expressed the interior.* Let's call this the modernist drive for
  'expressive transparency.'"

  -- Aron Vinegar of Ohio State U., "Skepticism and the Ordinary: From Burnt Norton to Las Vegas"

  * Jameson, Frederic [sic]. 1988. "Architecture and the Critique of Ideology."
  The Ideologies of Theory: Essays, 1971-1986. Volume 2. Minneapolis:
  University of Minnesota Press, 59.

  Steven Helmling, The Success and Failure of Fredric Jameson, SUNY Press, 2001, p. 54--

  Jameson "figures the inside/outside problem in the metaphor of the 'prison-house of language'...."

        
        Jung and the Imago Dei:

   "... Jung presents a diagram  
      to illustrate the dynamic
        movements of the self...."

  
  

  ...the movement of
  a self in the rock...

  

  -- Wallace Stevens:
  The Poems of Our Climate,
  by Harold Bloom,
  Cornell U. Press, 1977

  "Welcome to The Rock."
  -- Sean Connery

  
  "... just as God defeats the devil:
  this bridge exists...."
  -- Andre Weil

  

  The bridge illustration
  is thanks to Magneto.

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