Thursday, November 07, 2013

Jay Rosen @ the House


Eurydice wants to speak to you.
But she can’t speak your language anymore.
She talks in the language of dead people now...

No one has studied the press and the woeful state of public knowledge more carefully than Jay
Preacher and practitioner - old-testament-and-new-testament-journalism/#comment

Susan Sontag took all of knowledge as her province. To be curious was a moral obligation. A taste for conquest was her intellectual style...Sermon by Susan

“It will not sell, and it will do immeasurable harm to a growing reputation. ... I recommend that it be buried under a stone for a thousand years.” Thus an early publisher’s rejection of Lolita... Slavic Freud