So, I have about ten or so pages of ‘The Biography of Landscape: Cause and Culpability’ by Marwyn Samuels left to cover. I’ll go through these pages in this essay. But before I do that, I’ll summarize what I covered in my previous essay. Right, the gist of the essay is that we should not […]
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In the previous essay I presented a list of excuses as to why I’ve been unproductive but finally managed to be productive. Anyway, I didn’t get far. The only thing I attended to was noting how perceptive Marwyn Samuels is in his essay ‘The Biography of Landscape: Cause and Culpability’. The gist of that essay […]
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Peerage, judgment and combat
This time I’ll be looking at something that I read not that long ago, maybe less than a month ago, give or take. It’ll on the short side, I hope. Well, at least the text itself isn’t that long, mere nine pages, so it shouldn’t be too bad. So, this time I’ll taking a close […]
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Nonhuman landscapes of nature
I’ve written quite a bit on landscape and, well, I won’t let you down this time either. I’ve particularly focused on how Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari present it in ‘A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia’. I’m not going to focus on that in detail here, again, for the umpteenth time. I’ll do my best […]
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Your Grace
This is going to be fairly short as this is, essentially, just a recap of the course on aesthetics that I took. The last lecture was nearly two weeks ago, but there wasn’t much new discussed during the last lecture. What was, in part, new was on phenomenology, hermeneutics and semiotics. That said, there wasn’t […]
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Bold, Bold, Humboldt
I brought up Wilhelm von Humboldt in an earlier essay, in one of the texts I wrote on the aesthetics lectures. I noted that while apparently fairly influential in the 1800s, as well as in the 1900s, he is one of those figures that have eluded me. This may well be just by chance alone […]
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Mindbogging
Instead of continuing on more Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, as was my intent, I’ll do a very short essay, a follow-up to the previous essay on landscape and aesthetics, as examined during the lecture course on aesthetics. The bad thing here is that I can hardly remember what the lectures were on, including the […]
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The Life of a Mountain
As I mentioned in an earlier essay, I opted to attend aesthetics lectures at the university. It may seem a bit odd, yet for me it makes perfect sense. The primary of reason for attending those lectures is to understand more about the aesthetics, with particular relevance to landscapes. It took quite many lectures before […]
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Almond Blossoms
It’s been quite a while now, a couple of weeks or so. I haven’t abandoned this, no no, that’s not it. I think I got stuck on a plateau, going all over the place, the highways and the byways. I’ll get to it. Currently it’s a bit on the heavy side, but I’ll see to […]
I mentioned in the previous essay that one of the topics at a conference dealt with the deemed requirement to use formal language. I initially thought of covering both plagiarism and formality of language in the same essay, but then I enjoyed myself so very much that the essay ballooned out of control to an […]