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The turn to ‘theory’ notes
growth of critical theory comprises a series of ‘waves’ from specific decades
two older, but still unassimilated new approaches to theory such as Marxist criticism and psychoanalytic theory (pioneered in 1930s then reborn in the 1960s)
two new approaches emerged from these such as linguistic and feminist criticism
in the
I went into Susan Sontag’s “Against Interpretation” thinking we would disagree, but her take is more nuanced. She’s against interpreting an artist’s intentions to make it fit your own narrative; but she’s for analysis of the thing itself (it’s form and the sensation it evokes). By the end, she pleas for a “dictionary of forms,” which feels like the
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Our culture no longer acts as a cultures should. It now creates more noise than system. It is too heterogeneous to have a center. It is too voluminous to organize. It is too rapid to mature. Once reliable diffusion “delivery systems" are broken. This means we cannot find the talented people, good ideas, and big solutions that once came to us
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