tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5461652132030540303.post7268397793924269719..comments2023-10-26T03:06:08.442-07:00Comments on Digimodernism: Shifting down to the kidsAlanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07908603475383324429noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5461652132030540303.post-48253905189026166592009-11-16T23:29:31.848-08:002009-11-16T23:29:31.848-08:00I have enjoyed in reading the blog...I have enjoyed in reading the blog...Silly Bushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04733355674256348756noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5461652132030540303.post-16700186287706895022009-10-09T08:07:28.820-07:002009-10-09T08:07:28.820-07:00Hi Don,
I would gladly respond to your points, bu...Hi Don,<br /><br />I would gladly respond to your points, but am uninterested in getting into a slanging match with someone who does not even reveal their own identity. Debate requires presence, while anonymity (or pseudonymity) tends to descend into abuse. As you point out, my own is available in cyberspace, though you know less about me than you assume.Alanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07908603475383324429noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5461652132030540303.post-22030271907603077242009-10-01T15:48:48.803-07:002009-10-01T15:48:48.803-07:00Trinity,ITV2, is the first television programme I ...Trinity,ITV2, is the first television programme I have fully enjoyed in a long time. The dialogue is satisfying.The performances are sustainedly articulate. Those of Charles Dance, Christian Cooke and Claire Skinner stand out, of course, but there is practically no exception to the high standard set. I do not consider myself to be stupid or childish. I am certainly not young.<br />When I read a spurious review of this programme by someone who is suggesting that the intelligent mature should look down their noses at it, I feel compelled to say something in correction. <br />Let's start with your most glaring factual mistake. <br />"Filmed in a school, Dulwich College, the locale for this tomfoolery doesn't look anything like a university, and nobody behaves remotely like people who have been through higher education."<br />Ignoring the grammatical inelegance, the "locale" is actually Royal Holloway - a college of London University. Your judgment that it does not look remotely like a university is about as accurate as your assertion about graduate behaviour. What does that assertion mean? Most of the characters you mention are, in fact, supposed to be undergraduates...but do graduates not bully, intimidate, scheme, connive, love, succeed and fail and make jokes?<br />"Super-privileged students at Oxbridge, I know for a fact, just ignore those they socially despise; they don't seek them out and strut ostentatiously around them..."<br />What it is to be a friend of the great.. Are you here (even in making such an absurd generalisation) being a little "one-up" yourself?<br />In Trinity, there is no scene where any character (privileged or not) seeks out another to strut round him. There are scenes, on the other hand, where the top snob, not Theo (the black hero), is humiliated by the authorities.<br />" Equally, the only colleges controlled by their students figure in the narcissistic [misspelling in original corrected] dreams of particularly immature teenagers. And yet these days almost 50% of the English go to university; half the population will therefore be immediately aware that Trinity offers a laughably unreal image of higher education."<br />Were this a documentary about Oxford or Cambridge, there might be others who would be in a far handier position than you to know the realities of undergraduate life at Oxbridge, although I am sure you had a powerful pair of binoculars in Exeter. <br />It isn't, though. It's fictional. You have a Ph.D. in English Literature. Did you not read "The Tempest"? Do you think that an intelligent contemporary of Shakespeare would have wasted his time telling the world self-importantly that it would give castaways the wrong impression of island life? <br />You, who proclaim your favourite films and books to include so much fantasy (and see the quotation below), are playing with fire when you bring immaturity into it. This programme is watched by people who do not apparently confuse fact with fantasy, who do not need a laughter track to recognise comedy, who do not think that drama excludes entertainment. Some of them, like me, are well on in life, but still resent nonsense when they have to read it. Here is some more for you, extracted from your own article "The Death of Post-modernism and beyond." <br />"Here, the typical emotional state, radically superseding the hyper-consciousness of irony, is the trance – the state of being swallowed up by your activity. In place of the neurosis of modernism and the narcissism of postmodernism, pseudo-modernism takes the world away, by creating a new weightless nowhere of silent autism. You click, you punch the keys, you are ‘involved’, engulfed, deciding. You are the text, there is no-one else, no ‘author’; there is nowhere else, no other time or place. You are free: you are the text: the text is superseded." <br />I can't wait for the film... in the meanwhile, instead of playing dog in the manger, why don't you avoid the TV and concentrate on floating a little in your "nowhere of silent autism".<br />Incidentally, how do you “radically supersede”? Doesn’t that involve going in both directions at once?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08105658050958951504noreply@blogger.com