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Mathiäs;10526474 said:
Yes > all

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I would say that both Yes and ELP had fantastic classic phases, and terrible pop prog phases. King Crimson kept a fresh lineup in each of its phases and Fripp's visionary approach helped the band to age gracefully. Discipline is actually a really good record.

Thanks sevag00.

Yeah man a dreadnought is a warship with all big guns that was a huge part of the nationalist movements/arms races in the late 19th/early 20th centuries.

It's also a figurative term used for big things, kinda like giant, mammoth or titan. None of us have dreadlocks.
 
Yes has some pretty good pop albums though. 90125 was enjoyable, though much of their stuff after that is garbage.

I just got trying to put pro tools 10 on windows 8. Was an arduous task.
 
Addo_Of_Nex said:
Skimming through that post at work. Lots of interesting stuff, and I'm liking what I see with respect to how you break with Benjamin's line of thought. I'll give it a serious reading when I get to my computer and see if I can generate something of substance.

Awesome looking schedule, the Kubrick class in particular. I'm taking the semester off due to being broke as fuck, so here's to hoping I can stay productive.
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Thanks man, I admit it's a rather speculative post; I'm not that interested in making an argument, but mostly want to try and suggest alternate avenues, especially for interpreting Benjamin's essay, which I think is a fantastic piece, but a) often misinterpreted, and b) flawed.

From conversing with you in the past, I don't think you'll have much trouble keeping busy. I can email you some articles on speculative materialism if you want. :cool:

wandering_taco said:
That sounds pretty awesome. My semester just started, it's my last semester of undergrad. Our university just changed the English track in the last couple years, so I've done all the old track but the capstone is changed, so everyone is doing the new capstone. Now we are required to write a 25-40 page senior thesis. I am unsure what I'm going to write about, but I am kind of excited for it anyway. I'm also in a Literary Theory and Criticism class, so I'm finally going to learn some of the theory behind what I've been doing for the last 3 years haha.
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Literary theory and criticism can be very... well, scary when you first encounter it. The trick is just to push yourself through, and eventually it gets easier. A big part of it is learning the terminology. Out of curiosity, are you working from Eagleton's book?
 
Mathiäs;10527013 said:
Yes has some pretty good pop albums though. 90125 was enjoyable, though much of their stuff after that is garbage.

I just got trying to put pro tools 10 on windows 8. Was an arduous task.
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The holy trinity for Yes is Relayer, Fragile, and Close to the Edge. The Yes Album's decent. Tormato and Tales from Topographic Oceans, meh.
 
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Einherjar86 said:
Literary theory and criticism can be very... well, scary when you first encounter it. The trick is just to push yourself through, and eventually it gets easier. A big part of it is learning the terminology. Out of curiosity, are you working from Eagleton's book?
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We're actually using Richter's text, The Critical Tradition: Classic Texts and Contemporary Trends We're alternating every session between a modern author and an ancient author. Today we discussed mostly Jung's essay on the relation of Analytical Psychology in relation to poetry. It was really interesting, I can see it being something I might put in conversation with Loren Eisely and like Lovecraft or something for my thesis. I still need to figure that out. But texts like this, I find very engaging.
 
Oh, awesome! I have an edition of Richter's on my bookshelf. Not many people seem to be familiar with it, but I think it's great; really a comprehensive collection of criticism and theory from across the board, ancient to (post)modern.

Terry Eagleton published a somewhat definitive book called Literary Theory: an Introduction that has become somewhat of a staple in graduate programs. If you enjoy some of the later 19th- and 20th-century texts in the Richter, Eagleton's book is a good investment. You can usually find it used and cheap online because so many disillusioned grad students ditch their copies. :cool:
 
I might have to look into that. I'm enjoying it so far, we just read Jung's essay on the relation of analytical psychology to poetry, that was super interesting. I might actually look more into his works and use that in my thesis somehow. I saw some things that I think I might be able to put in conversation with one of Loren Eisely's texts I read last semester. I don't know what the overall point would be, but I think I might be able to make something of that. I like the way he talked about the unknown, and then that got me thinking of Lovecraft. I don't know haha. I really need to figure out a topic.
 
I wonder if the title of the Ozric Tentacles song "Iscence" is an alteration of the word "science."
 
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