Archive for the ‘Depreciations’ Category

January 15, 2010 2

Haiti, and Adorno on Solidarity

By Robert Minto in Depreciations, Evil, Suffering

The evil response of certain evangelicals to the tragedy of Haiti came vividly to mind as I read the opening pages of Adorno’s Minima Moralia this evening. In particular, the comments of Pat Robertson that the Haitians are somehow reaping divine vengeance for a pact with the devil in their history — struck me as [...]

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January 1, 2010 4

On Being Corrupted By Literature Courses

By Robert Minto in Depreciations, Education, Pedagogy

Next semester, for the first time, I will be taking no literature courses. (I will be taking a short story writing class, but that doesn’t count.) I have three complaints to make against literature classes.
First: literature classes seem to be designed for people who don’t read. This semester, during a particularly inane session of Early [...]

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