Re: Walter Benjamin's anti-narrative

2001-01-08 Thread Jed Hartman
Addendum to my previous message: >just under the surface lurk echoes and shadows of a rather Gothic >narrative with uncertain details. Can't believe I didn't think to mention a far better example of this: about 90% of Edward Gorey's work is basically quasi-narrative collage with an atmosphe

RE: Walter Benjamin's anti-narrative

2001-01-08 Thread Bullard, Claude L \(Len\)
Sure. It is a common theatrical technique. Unfortunately, emergence-based meaning depends a lot on the skill of the perceiver to create coherent maps. Think of the Monty Python bits like "The Meaning of Life". How easy is it to go through each sketch to see what they are doing besides mak

Re: Walter Benjamin's anti-narrative

2001-01-07 Thread Jed Hartman
Bob wrote: > What dismayed Adorno about the project in 1935 was Benjamin's faith > that a mere assemblage of objects (in this case, decontextualized > quotations) could speak for itself. A friend of mine once wanted to write a hypertext fiction piece that would consist of a set of "rooms"