Archive for the ‘ intelligentsia ’ Category
Two unexpected ways to place intellectual work. 1. Trace intellectual identities to one text or even a passage in a text that formed them, even perhaps without their express knowledge. This is Rober Bresson’s idea, when, in Diary of a Country Priest, he has the old wise priest tell the young martyr priest that all [ READ MORE ]
The structure of address of an intellectual (I won’t say academic) essay: not to whom it may concern, but what element in the addressee (in potentia any) it concerns and what element of the stuff (in potentia any) is made visible to awaken that element in the reader. There are many more ways to fail [ READ MORE ]
