The Circumflex

In one of the last South Bank Show programmes on ITV,  David Hockney, in discussing his work, highlighted the importance of scrutiny in the creation of an art work.  He expressed the belief that human beings have an eye for scrutiny…they see it and relate to it.  This, he said, was why you can look [...]

I did not finish reading Fredric Jameson’s Postmodernism or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism – not at the last attempt anyway.  It wasn’t that it fell by the wayside.  It wasn’t too difficult.  (it was difficult but it wasn’t TOO difficult).  I got to the end of the 5th chapter – Sentences –and I [...]