Studio8 - Uniting the Arts

Due to woeful lack of participation, which is no doubt my own fault, the Anti-Academy has had to resort to desperate emergency measures. As the patriotic-chauvinist bumpersticker says, Freedom isn't free. Below is the Anti-Academy's very first HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT!!

Read the following article and write a critique of it or support it with additional argumentation or evidence, examples, counterexamples. (limit 500 words).

Progressive Political Fiction
by Tony Cristini
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=9473

a quote from the opening of the essay:
"A bias against explicit, progressive political fiction is widespread among critics and commentators, publishers, editors, and many authors."

Responses are welcome on an on-going basis though it'd be nice if people could start posting as soon as possible, for discussion. Extra-credit for those who post within one week!!

Extra-credit for those who post within one week!!

I don't need no stinking extra-credit
I got too much credit now.

Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store

If it is the last thing I do I will get back to you on this one.

Thank you.

That slogan Freedom is not free, does not just annoy me, I want to drag the yahoo out of his car and pound his head into the pavement until he tells me what it means.

I am a sick puppy.

Trying to get hold of a copy of Plot Against America.

If most writers of fiction are avoiding the subject of ordinary politics then I would say that indeed democracy truly is highly literate....

Reading Plot Against America. I am about two hundred pages into it. I may actually finish it. If I do it will be the first book I have finished reading in almost a year. I was born in 1940, I have jumbled memories of the war.


Cervantes:

"truth, whose mother is history, rival of time, depository of deeds, witness to the past,
exemplar and adviser to the present, and the future's counselor."

http://www.webster.edu/~corbetre/person ... inths.html


,” Borges writes, “historical truth, for [Menard], is not what took place; it is what we think took place.”
http://www.themodernword.com/borges/bor ... grath.html

what we think took place, may not have taken place. hence, historical truth and beliefs about history are not the same.

or rather, thje fact that someone thinks something happened doesn't necessarily mean that it happened; truth takes more than that. which is not to say that we should be skeptical, just not relativistic.