BARBELITH underground
 

Subcultural engagement for the 21st Century...
Barbelith is a new kind of community (find out more)...
You can login or register.


Succulent Baudrillard

 
 
Nick's Experimental Wrongness
11:50 / 05.10.07
So I'm looking for bits of critical writing and social thinking which are written in really gorgeous, rich language. "The Desert of the Real" and so on. Any recommendations?

I came across the OED definition of 'bewildered' the other day: "lost in a pathless place"

Love it.
 
 
aim for joviality
12:21 / 05.10.07
I like David Abram's Spell of the sensuous, which is nonfiction, though it might not be the kind of thing you're looking for. (excerpt)
 
 
Send me a pound.
14:59 / 05.10.07
Wow, that's lovely.
 
 
Tryphena Absent
15:51 / 05.10.07
Perhaps something by Paul Valery?
 
 
Nick's Experimental Wrongness
20:30 / 05.10.07
Don't know Paul Valery; the spells piece is lovely, but it's describing rich landscapes. I'm looking for something which is more theoretical, more interior. The quote from Ecclesiastes at the beginning of Simulacra & Simulation, for example. Incidentally, being a doofus, I was trying to find it in Ecclesiastes on the web today. Am I right in thinking it's somehow not the biblical one?
 
 
Glenn Ponder & Lazarus
(prev. Glenn: douchegate veteran)
01:24 / 09.10.07
Dave Hickey's 'Air Guitar' gets my vote, as does Baudelaire and Theophile de Gautier...
 
 
All Acting Regiment
16:51 / 09.10.07
Anything featuring the word Flaneur.
 
  
Add Your Reply