@BrianJopek The dumb motherfucker is what happens when the far right goes #postmodern.

It just took them 40 more years to get to the same dominant cultural aesthetic.

His dumbness is ”ironic detachment”. The very same thing critiqued by his followers, who are all in, doing it.

“On top of a wild height, called Cowanscroft, where the lands of three proprietors meet at one point, there has been, for long & many years, the grave of a suicide…”

Hogg’s ingenious metafictional pre-publicity for the CONFESSIONS… (Blackwoods 1823)

6/10

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-private-memoirs-and-confessions-of-a-justified-sinner-1824/

#Scottish #literature #JamesHogg #romanticism #gothic #18thcentury #19thcentury #postmodern #metafiction

We don't mourn the death of originality cuz we're too busy liking, reposting, reenacting, all while thinking we're the protagonists.

But we're not. We're extras in a film with no director.

That's the standalone complex: a revolution without a cause, a ghost with no shell.

#Baudrillard #GhostintheShell #StandAloneComplex #postmodern

“Published posthumously in 1978 and now reprinted for the first time, her classic study POETIC ARTIFICE marked a provocative intervention… It is not the job of poetry to deliver states of ‘inarticulate rapture’, but to be the articulation of that rapture”

3/3

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/sep/02/petic-artifice-theory-poetry-veronica-forrest-thomson-review

#Scottish #literature #poetry #20thcentury #WomenWriters #postmodern

“For the uninitiated: she’s a literary cult figure, a rising star of British post-World War II poetry and criticism whose career came to an abrupt halt when she died suddenly in 1975, at age 27… Today, Forrest-Thomson is more relevant than ever”

2/3

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/142033/the-rise-of-veronica-forrest-thomson

#Scottish #literature #poetry #20thcentury #WomenWriters #postmodern