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Archive: August, 2026
31 August 2026
Kyle Miller is from Long Island, one of the birthplaces of Death Metal. I understand that Long Island rivals Tampa for the distinction.
The center of it is Cannibal Corpse’s predecessor scene, but the real institutional hub was Vinnie …
25 August 2026
depicted: Ted Hughes. Harold Meltzer set him. Check out his Shakespeare book.
Fallout from the Death of Tragedy
–Armida, and what the tragic economy required–
TLDR: First corollary to the death of tragedy is that essentializing is not …
25 August 2026
More Fallout from the Death of Tragedy
TLDR: The second corollary to the death of tragedy is that strong men appear ridiculous and attract not the brightest lights, post-tragedy. Stifter was motivated negatively by Napoleon. Beethoven did the right …
24 August 2026
The Death of Tragedy
My readings of Stifter and Jean Paul, my hearings of Brahms and Schumann, these clashed last night with Schiller’s essays on tragedy, the sublime, and the pathetic. The death of tragedy fell quickly out of that …
22 August 2026
“It follows from the lawless, capricious spirit of the present age, which would egotistically annihilate the world and the universe in order to clear a space merely for free play in the void, and which tears off at the bandage of its wounds as a …
20 August 2026
image: Geog Joseph Vogler, who began speaking of *Mehrdeutigkeit*. Gottfried Weber developed the principles much further.
“It follows from the lawless, capricious spirit of the present age, which would egotistically annihilate the world and the …
1 August 2026
What Happened to the Cult of the Small?
or
Who Cares if You Sell Magazines?
Wm. Kentner Anderson
There remains a cult of the small in the US, and its predicament is a limpid encapsulation of the pathologies or our time, the pathologies of the …
