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Me fetishized? Is it a severe condition, does it have secondary effects? On Jan 26, 2008 8:19 PM, Gabriel Gudding <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Kasper, > > Sorry I missed your question. > > You ask what I think of Ron's blog. > > Well, I think it's a good example of literary violence -- and of someone > who is very very obedient to the illusion of literature and deeply > invested in: (a) consecration, (b) canon making, (c) pigeon-holing, (d) > distinctions, and (e) the dream of judgment. > > In other words, it's a good example of fetish. Belief in literature. > > Too, I guess in some ways Ron's blog is a machine of capital (not fiscal > but symbolic), whose purpose is to accrue as much cultural capital as > possible -- to in fact monopolize, or at least corner the market on, a > set of symbolic goods. > > So in short it's business as usual. Even tho Ron will say he doesn't > believe in individual authors, he still basically follows the New > Critical m.o. for establishing author function by (a) authorial > celebration, (b) apodictic tone (assertion parading as demonstration), > (c) divisive rhetoric (dismissive or conciliatory), (d) obsessive > concern about what will stand "the test of time" -- and probably the > thing that most anchors Ron as a grandchild of New Criticism: (e) the > ritualistic "close reading" (pretending to focus on "form" and "craft" > as a means of carrying out an attempt to consecrate or dismiss). > > Another way of putting it: Ron's blog is a giant mechanism whose purpose > is to create, if absent, and anchor, if present, belief. Belief in > distinctions -- rather than awareness of relations. > > Or another way to think of it is: The enactment of orthodoxy by a former > heretic. > > If Ron's blog were a religion, it would be Mormonism. > > Or. The enactment of a doxological illusion common to literature: the > belief that one can locate somewhere in the field of polemics or > celebration something upon which one can never exhaust the urge to > fetishize. Olson? Creeley? Dickinson? Barbour? Ballardini? > > Ron's blog is a hunt for that inexhaustible object/author. > > So, that's what I think of Ron's blog. What I think of Ron himself, or > what he presents of himself on his blog and in his work, is that he's a > good Joe who's maybe a little too enamored with the illusion of "poetry" > and who maybe needs to read Bourdieu. :) > > Poetry really is about human beings. It's not about poetry. > > Sorry if this is a bit too much information, Kasper. > > Gabe > http://gabrielgudding.blogspot.com/ > http://rhodeislandnotebook.blogspot.com/ > > <<oh. I was asking Gabe what *he* thinks of Silliman's blog. if his poem > is a nightmare or absurd dream or true reflection. > > KS>> > -- Anny Ballardini http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/ http://www.fieralingue.it/modules.php?name=poetshome http://www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing star!