Monthly Archives: June 2013

SEBALD AND “PARLOUS LOFTINESS”:QUEER OR CAMP?BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on June 23, 2013 by decayetude

Sebald said, of Thomas Browne’s style in “Urn Burial”:”his only means of achieving the sublime heights that this endeavour required was a parlous loftiness{sic}in his language…constructing labarynthine sentences that sometimes extend over one or two pages, sentences that resemble processions … Continue reading →

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RE-ENVISIONNING:MICHAEL PONTI AND SEBALD. INSPIRED BY SEBALD’S ESSAY ON JAN PETER TRIPP IN “A PLACE IN THE COUNTRY”(TRANS.CAITLING, 2013).BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on June 22, 2013 by decayetude

RE-EN VISIONNING: “Additions” “Rotated a Fraction Out of Kilter”; “Tonal Shades Altered”; “Interventions Deviations and Differences”…. These Phrases- Similarly Found in Deconstruction Ism and Queer Theory:- They could Equally Describe Sebald’s Writing Style; And PONTI’s Pianistic Peregrinations, His peripat Etic … Continue reading →

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(SOME OF!) MY PSYCHOBIBLIOGEOGRAPHY(AND A BIT OF VINYL), IN PICTURES AND CAPTIONS. BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on June 6, 2013 by decayetude

Jungle of unread booksAbandoned, liminal spectral places/spaces Books from people very dear to me: my partner and my lovely mum, died 2009GMP Original Mum’s Books psychovinylgeography! Books and recordings…part of who we are/our inner landscape…

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“SUMMER IN THE {PARTLY LIMINAL} CITY”: STREAM-OF-CONSCIOUSNESS. BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on June 6, 2013 by decayetude

“Summer in the city”… as the delectable Roddy Frame sung….open city….liminal city(well, this part, Bold Street and Lark lane and Stanley Street anyway; not QUITE Berlin;{ post on Berlin, the ultimate liminal city , to follow}…. Bold Street=queer street, to a … Continue reading →

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LIMINALITY; SOME DEFINITIONS AND CONNOTATIONS. BY STEVEN BENSON

Posted on June 3, 2013 by decayetude

1.A THRESHOLD, sometimes called transition rites,originally from anthropology, in relation to (often religious/spiritual) rituals: ie the phase at which a participant in the ritual stands on the threshold(the point of liminality/liminal space)between a previous way of establishing, for instance, their … Continue reading →

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