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probably something on hermeneutics and criticism. for example, people are always creditting saussure with the signified/signifier distinction. after picking up a 19th century text on biblical hermeneutics, it is obvious this distinction goes back quite some time. it makes me curious as to...

i think asimov wrote a short story--or maybe just an editorial--about jokes and their origins. the story began by asking why there are so many traveling salesmen jokes when there haven't been traveling salesmen for decades. i think they figured out all jokes came from aliens. except the worst...

hm. just rewatched A Boy and His Dog. getting really stoned will certainly alter one's memory of a film. still enjoyed it, but not as much. and it probably doesn't deserve to be called a psychedelic film--though there are bizarre elements. i'd like to second the suggestion for Prospero's...

it's the 21st century--we can submit any type of discourse to some sort of analysis... i don't think the point of joke analysis can really be to determine if a joke is funny or not. certainly, all sorts of awful, unfunny jokes can be put through the same sort of analysis as gut-busters. there...

i'm sorry to keep droning about philip dick...the last i swear. i'd certainly say he was paranoid benny. here is a letter he wrote to the FBI in the 70s, warning them about dangerous Marxists like Stanislaw Lem's western agent and Frederic Jameson: http://www.lem.pl/english/faq#P.K.Dick A...

hello. i posted some thread about claude levi-strauss being dead and all on another forum. someone told me it would be more appreciated around here. i met the guy at a james tenney concert, plus he does seem to post here quite a bit so i guess he knows something. if you read my posts, it'll...

i've read a lot of dick--five anthologies of short stories and at least ten novels, mainly earlier stuff. i'll agree with you on his clunkiness. i think part of it can be explained as simply his progression as a writer. if you want some real clunkers, try "The Defenders" or Vulcan's Hammer...

and not just spelling, but pensmanship. you know how the saying goes--penmanship is next to brinksmanship.

There are always the extremely lazy, those that will take whatever crap they can find. Any teacher or prof should be able to figure this out immediately, based on writing style, content, etc. The only time I've copy-and-pasted directly, it was a paper for someone else (ie, it wasn't my ass if...

I'm always finishing some trashy sci-fi. The latest, some short stories by Cordwainer Smith. Better than many of his era (early 1960s)--and it is nice that he admits to a lack of originality, stealing his plots from Ali Baba, Joan of Arc, Dante... Also on the desk: Matthew Arnold - Essays on...

generally, i find "psychedelic" films to have extended boring parts--or at least parts that some people will find boring. lots of experimental films are psychedelic--and experimental films are often incredibly pretentious, sometimes bizarre crap. bunuel's simon of the desert was brought...