14 May 2004
Disengage
- Chapter 10, "The Melancholy Angel," from The Man Without Content (1994) by Giorgio Agamben
(review to come)
I picked this book up when we went to
No beat poetry for me though (I picked up Agamben's book on a whim along with Adorno's The Jargon of Authenticity and a collection called German Essays on Music).
- Me (in the center) gettin' hooked up with German Essays on Music
I know this entry sounds flippant, but re-read the Agamben quote. He drifts a lot, but this seems pretty solid to me. It basically says that quotations (cutting and pasting) removes the authorial impact from a work, detaches both it and the reader from shared cultural context, yet generates a new type of power because of its alienation. Somewhat relevant in our information age.
And somewhat ironic as I extract a quote.
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