Tuesday, July 19, 2005

callipygian rondure

Bending slightly toward me who sat scanning his rough draft of paper #2, my student chuckled and said, "You know, John Berger is sort of like an intelligent Austin Powers." Nostalgia:1. Marxism: 0.

"Publicity is, in essence, nostalgic. It has to sell the past to the future. It cannot itself supply the standards of its own claims. And so all its references to quality are bound to be retrospective and traditional. It would lack both confidence and credibility if it used a strictly contemporary language." --J.B.