Prologemena to an Future Rhetoric of Shadows, Shades and Silhouettes

In this essay, following the implications of prolegomena (Greek: to say before ), i describe what a rhetoric constructed of textual shadows (the word shadow in a text) would look like. Specifically, what would be the various motives and rhetorical intentions, for a writer (of all genres) to employ the word shadow or a member of its semantic family

Polish Folklore

The present book “Poland – History, Culture and Society. Selected Readings” is the third edition of a collection of academic texts written with the intention to accompany the module by providing incoming students with teaching materials that will assist them in their studies of the course module and encourage further search for relevant information and data. The papers collected in the book have been authored by academic teachers from the University of Łódź, specialists in such fields as history, geography, literature, sociology, ethnology, cultural studies, and political science. Each author presents one chapter related to a topic included in the module or extending its contents. The book contains the extensive bibliography

Pop-Culture Artifacts

In dealing with literary work such as Neil Gaiman\u27s, fiction that both inhabits and defies conventions of genre and medium and thus easy definition, it is clear that an examination of such work benefits from as eclectic a style as Gaiman\u27s own approach to story-telling. While this essay attempts no summary of the author\u27s entire literary corpus, an analysis of the underlying influences of the novel American Gods is necessary to map the details of its territory. A survey of the convergence of the various genres and allusions within this one text, and the ways in which Gaiman measures Old World belief systems with New World contemporary values offers an entrance into American Gods\u27 narrative cente

Everything that Matters

You look at the work and ask What is it about? I whisper Its a secret. You look confused. I add Falling, time, history, place, identity, material, shadow, representation, and not knowing. You are pleased yet perplexed. I won, though it isnt obvious is it? Ill explain then. Its about decolonization. Everything That Matters uses the trophys form as a subversive symbol to erode seemingly solidified colonial constructs. A field of trophy-like things, including papier-mch sculptures, cement wreaths and granite cairns, invoke time, history, and epistemology not as ideasbut as materials. This exhibition is a gathering of fragments that confuse representations, rearranging and reforming them to create a space for alternative and complexing dialogues

The Ties That Bind Us, the Shadows That Separate Us: Life and Death, Shadow and (Dream)Story

This is an autoethnographic account of a family‘s struggle to respond to a series of tragic losses and to fend off the encroaching shadow that descended on them in their grief. The story unfolds as a study of the redemptive power of story to penetrate the shadows of collective grief and speaks to the possibility of healing from tragedy through the fusion of dream and story into a new nexus of possibility

About Gods, I Don\u27t Believe in None of That Shit, the Facts Are Backwards: Slaughterhouse\u27s Lyrical Atheism

Hip Hop group Slaughterhouse\u27s multi-membered, perversely holy quadrinity provides a fertile site for a pseudo-non-theological theological reading-a theology with and without god, that is, with god\u27s titular presence but bereft of any ethos of a mover and shaker god. God, in my reading of Slaughterhouse\u27s lyrics, is impotent. Rather than the Word, Slaughterhouse publishes sacred texts (albums and mixtapes) that speak to Black embodied life; their albums are the scriptural holy ghetto-Word, the Gospels that of Royce, Crooked, Joell, and Joey, rather than Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Through the lyrics of Slaughterhouse\u27s songs, they craft a god that is but is not; a god that does lyrical work in the sense that the name of god has cultural capital and produces effects, but is not God, that is, a being that commands the heavens and the Earth

febB2013

From February 2013 Robert Kelly Archive