tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post1957189158340330968..comments2024-03-18T21:13:12.753-04:00Comments on Jacob Russell's Barking Dog: The Wound of ConsciousnessJacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-78684371129312951702008-12-13T18:24:00.000-05:002008-12-13T18:24:00.000-05:00Had the wrong URL: This time the link takes you to...Had the wrong URL: This time the link takes you to the right post<BR/><BR/>"I agree with Lethe. Are you suggesting that by stating what he admires Wood is somehow contributing to the oppression of what he doesn't? That by praising canonical works he is contributing to a capitalist system that somehow discriminates against the experimental?"<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://www.noggs.typepad.com/Jacob Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-52606371773372680592008-12-13T15:58:00.000-05:002008-12-13T15:58:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Jacob Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-51790567041155293842008-12-13T15:54:00.000-05:002008-12-13T15:54:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Jacob Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-75810320152641103742008-12-13T14:58:00.000-05:002008-12-13T14:58:00.000-05:00I agree with Lethe. Are you suggesting that by sta...I agree with Lethe. Are you suggesting that by stating what he admires Wood is somehow contributing to the oppression of what he doesn't? That by praising canonical works he is contributing to a capitalist system that somehow discriminates against the experimental?<BR/><BR/>His aesthetic stance, is his aesthetic stance, if you ask me. We live in a system which does make publishing the kind of 'NigelBealehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06094387597632333192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-46521131895410053822008-12-06T20:05:00.000-05:002008-12-06T20:05:00.000-05:00ah... make that Your response.ah... make that Your response.Jacob Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-81432952714770465212008-12-06T00:12:00.000-05:002008-12-06T00:12:00.000-05:00We all have different tastes... but I think I can ...We all have different tastes... but I think I can promise you, you won't be disappointed. <BR/><BR/>And even if you are, I look forward to our response.Jacob Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-18946248791389855312008-12-05T23:13:00.000-05:002008-12-05T23:13:00.000-05:00Jacob, you write so movingly of Magdalena Zurawski...Jacob, you write so movingly of Magdalena Zurawski's The Bruise that now I'm going to have to go out and buy it and read it -- like I really need another book!<BR/><BR/>(OK, I always need another book...)Edmond Caldwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02651618912907453630noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-39601222669934879272008-12-05T12:29:00.000-05:002008-12-05T12:29:00.000-05:00Enjoying the book itself? Why does that require ou...Enjoying the book itself? Why does that require our foregoing the pleasure of thinking about the nature of that pleasure, thinking about relationship of that pleasure to language, to "reality." <BR/><BR/>It's because Wood claims the sort of fiction he approves of somehow deserves to be called "realism" that Wood gets dragged into this. That makes his aesthetic stance more than, no--something Jacob Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-24880127823858420932008-12-05T12:19:00.000-05:002008-12-05T12:19:00.000-05:00I was speaking, of course, of human consciousness,...I was speaking, of course, of human consciousness, consciousness conditioned by language, and probably, before the acquisition of language--by the impression on the human facility for language. An infant perceives the world (reality) not through its own senses and the brains arrangements alone, but through the mother, through the interactions with adults, such that the "something to process" doesJacob Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-89467298599072798112008-12-05T12:06:00.000-05:002008-12-05T12:06:00.000-05:00I'm not sure how Wood gets dragged into all of the...I'm not sure how Wood gets dragged into all of these philosophical issues. I left a longer comment on the first blog you linked to stating my stance on Wood. I think literary theory, like Western Philosophy, is particularly vulnerable to the quagmire of language games and brambles of thought we easily get stuck in. At it's base, we're using texts to advance ideological positions. Ahh, how farBlog of Innocencehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10441920742119200289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-60468943801855364622008-12-05T09:01:00.000-05:002008-12-05T09:01:00.000-05:00Consciousness refers both to the part of the mind'...Consciousness refers both to the part of the mind's working one is aware of, and to being aware of and responding to one's surroundings... very difficult to separate the two...one needs something to process before one becomes aware of the fact it is being processed.NigelBealehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06094387597632333192noreply@blogger.com