A Blog That Combines Literature And Politics
Correct grammar, rich language and content? What’s the blogging world coming to?
Broken Turtle
Literature and Politics from a microcosm called Delaware. Here all the multifaceted players across the great capitalist contradiction are reduced to a few actors: a handful of banking and chemical oligarchs squatting in châteaux, a stable of artists downwind who either take inspiration for amnesia and roses or take a stand, challenging the living to repair a polluted world.
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Wow, quite the interesting blog. I especially like what appears to be an ongoing theme/existential crisis as to whether, and to what extent, literature and the arts can effect positive change. Don DeLillo explored that theme in ‘Mao 2’, and there are numerous other examples.
I think the inevitable result is more interactivity and blurring of lines between artists and audience, interactivity made much more possible with the internet and other means of messaging.
But I’m just a piker compared to the authors pondering these matters over at the Turtle.
I intend to go back there often.
El Somnambulo,
Piker you are not. Please offer your comments on site at the Broken Turtle Blog. My latest post deals with yesterday’s announcement of the big Race to the Top Award Delaware just got, allegedly for school improvement. Unfortunately, all the big corporate players under the umbrella of Vision 2015 (Chamber of Commerce, Rodel and Broad Foundations – that’s Eli Broad, former honcho at AIG – Astra Zeneca) have been trying to get Delaware to join their scheme and get the Delaware Legislature to pony up with $100 million to pay for it. Now the Feds have paid the bill, and same guys who wrecked the economy get to play with Delaware schools. News Journal barely notes there’s any dissent, although they published my column on the topic two years ago. For details on this and more artsy-fartsy stuff, see http://brokenturtleblog.blogspot.com/.
Phillip Bannowsky
El Somnambulo,
Piker you are not. Please offer your comments on site at the Broken Turtle Blog. My latest post deals with yesterday’s announcement of the big Race to the Top Award Delaware just got. Unfortunately, all the big corporate players under the umbrella of Vision 2015 (Chamber of Commerce, Rodel and Broad Foundations – that’s Eli Broad, former honcho at AIG – Astra Zeneca) have been trying to get Delaware to join their scheme and get the Delaware Legislature to pony up with $100 million to pay for it. Now the Feds have paid the bill, and same guys who wrecked the economy get to play with Delaware schools. News Journal barely notes there’s any dissent, although they published my column on the topic two years ago. For details on this and more artsy-fartsy stuff, see http://brokenturtleblog.blogspot.com/.
And thanks, Pandora.
Sorry I doubled this.
Phillip Bannowsky
Mao II is a damned awesome book. I reread it a few months after 9/11.