Entries from September 2004

Monday, September 20th, 2004

And the thesis keeps growing

This is getting really dangerous, everyone I talk to, every book I read, I can loop into my expanding world of the ways reproductive media shape how we view art. My museum studies professor, Paul Bolin, and I had a great conversation this morning about it, but in an attempt to pin down my [...]

Sunday, September 19th, 2004

Sunday Morning

On the mend from being ill for a few days. If you ever make a strong association between a medicine you’re taking and poison, trust your instincts, you might be having an allergic reaction.
I’m hanging at Spiderhouse for a bit, waiting for the noon tour of the Museum of Ephemerata. I’ve been wanting [...]

Monday, September 13th, 2004

Meeting with Doty

I was embarrassed to give him significantly less than I had planned to. But, on the positive side, I have a bit better understanding of Walter Benjamin’s argument in “the Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”; I worked hard for my understanding, primarily due to a lack of knowledge of Marxist thought. [...]