English 1022E Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Friedrich Nietzsche, Jacques Lacan, Dead Letter Office
9 Mar 2016
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Power, and the assertion of brutal power of a kind of situation that cannot be controlled. Again, bartleby an experience of the uncanny. The real; an experience that threatens our comfort. Hollywood is intrigued by the real but they betray the real. Only film that doesn"t betray the real: *the birds* by hitchcock. It places us in a state of negative capability. The dead letter office represents the end of communication. It is a rumour, he knows nothing about bartleby. We are forced into admitting that we do not understand. Embracing the negative capability is difficult, it frustrates. The philosophical idea; you are not going to get an explanation to important things in your life. Bartleby is viral, people around him are affected by him. Narrator"s explanation: he doesn"t fire him because he doesn"t look human. It is hard to dismiss something immediately that demands your attention.
