ENG365H1 Lecture 11: ENG365 Lecture 11
Document Summary
Keith"s forced loss of identity, past not shown much -> after poker, keith to. Falling man unknown id, man of no name, spectacle, nobody yet everybody. Fears and dilemmas of culture with juxtaposition of superficiality of live ve imperialism. How people adapt and deal with postmodern condition. Perceptual gap btwn daily life and violence/terroris unsustainable. Falling man tell of event but not, gap in narrative, intrusion makes healing possible. Language separate from world that provokes it. Believe opp, write to strip what makes thing traumatic, provoke and remind. Conflict between us self image and image to world, art vs ideology. Nina: our movies, music what comes after america. Art supposed to help comprehend happing and ease shock. Martin ex-terrorist, art dealer, sell purely for money, own walls bare, no aesthetic connection -> capitalism = art. Uncaptruable singularity of 911 -> making art possible. Primal terror of sublime, reconfigure way look at world.
