I am surprised … by how I haven’t addressed chronotope in my essays, like at all. So, what is chronotope? Well, it’s one of concepts used by Mikhail Bakhtin in the context of novels. If you’ve ever studied literature, like seriously, not just a couple of beginner or intermediate level courses, you know what it […]
It was already in my first post in this blog that I pointed out that I started broadening my horizons on all things landscape by picking up the concisely titled ‘Landscape’ by John Wylie. After that I have ventured into various articles that I happen to have found particularly insightful, as well as covered various […]
Before I carry on to cover discourse, formations, diagrams and abstract machines as discussed by Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze, I’ll address something even more, I’m not fond of the word but whatever, fundamental. In his ‘Death and the Labyrinth: The World of Raymond Roussel’, Foucault (110-111) writes of light: “[T]here is a sovereign white […]