An intro note to the book by one of Kerala's finest and least known thinkers Anil Kumar Payapilly Vijayan :
" Some German guys published his work. It Is prized at 49.00 € so that we are not obliged to buy or read it. I don't think the author himself will buy it unless he is narcissistic. Anyways, I read the essays long ago and I loved... one in particular: the essay on Lacan and Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. In his essay on the Georgian film maker Sergei Paradjanov, he quotes the Armenian poet Sayat-Nova: "I am he whose soul is tortured," which is an apt description of the author himself (I guess everything except the essay on design has been written by him). A writing which is a blend of Blake and Benjamin! To my mind, one of the finest and least known minds from Kerala."
Second review from Thys van der Veer, my Dutch friend: " There is a nice flow in the things that you write.
The first letter of course in that book of yours is very moving.
But it is a glimpse, a second, in a year.
But it enlightens.
...Further, the hard reading might come later.
A flow of words it is, and the flow is easy.
For a deeper understanding of meanings it might have to be read three times, because some layers might be missed.
Under water life is not visible but when we see the birds that float/fly on that water, we are already happy. "
The World Literature Blog
Thursday, June 23, 2011
First requested review received of the book Wrighteings: In Media Res by A.V. Koshy & A.V.Varghese written by Mary Hiers* :)
Wednesday, 22 June 2011 at 19:19
Title: The very roots of being and creativity.
This book is not long, but it is deep. Anyone who has even a passing interest in philosophy, education, or creativity will find this book to be a rich vein to mine. At the same time, it is written for the lay reader, so you do not have to have a degree in philosophy to take away plenty with you for thought. The very first essay hooked me in, and the ones that followed kept me rapt by bringing up similar concepts in different lights and different intellectual settings. I think of this book as a brief, but essential reference for teachers, thinkers, writers, and anyone who wants to make much more of life than what is on the surface. Highly recommended.
(I am also appending relevant parts of two of Mary Hiers' comments to me while reading the book and on finishing it too.)
1. I want to tell you that I am enjoying your book immensely. It is taking me longer than I expected, but only because it is very dense with information and I want to take it all in. Anyway, great work!
2. Hi, Ampat. I wrote an Amazon review and just submitted it. It will show up under Maurice's* name because he and I share an Amazon account... And thank you for sharing your book with me... Excellent work, my friend!
About the reviewer: "I'm a freelance writer and editor, and the mother of two children, one grown, one in high school. I live in a small town in the American south. Literature, poetry, international affairs, economics, and politics are all of great interest to me. I find it hard to keep fields of interest from spilling over into one another sometimes. My "day job" is with a weekly paper whose online home is www.thesaturdayindependent.com . I have also written for magazines. Reading and writing are big parts of my life, as are quilting, photography, and caring for my many dogs and cats."
* Maurice Fitzgerald, artist.
( One more review at least to follow, hopefully.)
Some comments:
#
Mary Jane: True, the first essay "The Other Is, Plural and Immanent" dragged me right into it too, Rimbaud's dualism "I is another" raises all curiosity in the content to follow. Congrats, nice brief, inviting review Mary Hiers.
#
Gerda Casier: Simple review of a not so simple book. At least, that's my idea after reading the first essay, 'The Other is, plural and immanent'. It touches upon so many ideas, one needs to reread and reread again.
#
Ampat Koshy: It is short and to the point befitting the context it is written for.
(Amazon)
#
Angel Bowden Meredith: I myself am in the beginning stages of being pulled straight in by this awesome work. Yes, it will be worthy of rereading over and over, so as not to miss a single detail. Definite read for the thinker, and I will post a note with a more fitting review once I have finished off every morsel!
Title: The very roots of being and creativity.
This book is not long, but it is deep. Anyone who has even a passing interest in philosophy, education, or creativity will find this book to be a rich vein to mine. At the same time, it is written for the lay reader, so you do not have to have a degree in philosophy to take away plenty with you for thought. The very first essay hooked me in, and the ones that followed kept me rapt by bringing up similar concepts in different lights and different intellectual settings. I think of this book as a brief, but essential reference for teachers, thinkers, writers, and anyone who wants to make much more of life than what is on the surface. Highly recommended.
(I am also appending relevant parts of two of Mary Hiers' comments to me while reading the book and on finishing it too.)
1. I want to tell you that I am enjoying your book immensely. It is taking me longer than I expected, but only because it is very dense with information and I want to take it all in. Anyway, great work!
2. Hi, Ampat. I wrote an Amazon review and just submitted it. It will show up under Maurice's* name because he and I share an Amazon account... And thank you for sharing your book with me... Excellent work, my friend!
About the reviewer: "I'm a freelance writer and editor, and the mother of two children, one grown, one in high school. I live in a small town in the American south. Literature, poetry, international affairs, economics, and politics are all of great interest to me. I find it hard to keep fields of interest from spilling over into one another sometimes. My "day job" is with a weekly paper whose online home is www.thesaturdayindependent.com . I have also written for magazines. Reading and writing are big parts of my life, as are quilting, photography, and caring for my many dogs and cats."
* Maurice Fitzgerald, artist.
( One more review at least to follow, hopefully.)
Some comments:
#
Mary Jane: True, the first essay "The Other Is, Plural and Immanent" dragged me right into it too, Rimbaud's dualism "I is another" raises all curiosity in the content to follow. Congrats, nice brief, inviting review Mary Hiers.
#
Gerda Casier: Simple review of a not so simple book. At least, that's my idea after reading the first essay, 'The Other is, plural and immanent'. It touches upon so many ideas, one needs to reread and reread again.
#
Ampat Koshy: It is short and to the point befitting the context it is written for.
(Amazon)
#
Angel Bowden Meredith: I myself am in the beginning stages of being pulled straight in by this awesome work. Yes, it will be worthy of rereading over and over, so as not to miss a single detail. Definite read for the thinker, and I will post a note with a more fitting review once I have finished off every morsel!
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Some great work a friend of mine called Yashas Shetty is doing in the Art Science interface.
This is on the lines of Edward Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, James Ossian and Castaneda.
It refers to creativity, deconstructs the idea of origin, questions media as a vehicle for factuality, and asks the interesting question of whether genius has to be compulsorily derivative to be really effetcive; privileging altered repetition in Deleuzian and Guattarian terms, over the original.
Yashas Shetty is creative in the Art Science field in the same way those two thinkers are/were and Fitzgerald was too, perhaps.
http://louderwhisper.crisap.org/?/index/yashas/
Yashas's ability to take from anthropology and mythemes and technology and his love of and sensitivity to music in its different forms - and the media's ability to deceive playfully and use it against itself - is thought-provoking and deserves a much greater study in detail. The futuristically mixed product here of the past and the more recent past which works as a banaustic music-scape that he re-creates for us then as a listening space in cybertime and cyberspace is deliciously pranksterish and a fascinating experiment that opens one's mind to many different pathways in it, to say the least!!!
Listen and in "conversations" enjoy his insight into an extremely relevant issue of today that is connected to this and filtered through the works of people like Glenn Gould and Michele Certeau, in the related interview.
http://louderwhisper.crisap.org/?/conversations/yashas/
Most of all though, apart from all the theory and jargon I have just spouted, this strange and haunting work speaks for itself.
Listen and enter its interstices.
It refers to creativity, deconstructs the idea of origin, questions media as a vehicle for factuality, and asks the interesting question of whether genius has to be compulsorily derivative to be really effetcive; privileging altered repetition in Deleuzian and Guattarian terms, over the original.
Yashas Shetty is creative in the Art Science field in the same way those two thinkers are/were and Fitzgerald was too, perhaps.
http://louderwhisper.crisap.org/?/index/yashas/
Yashas's ability to take from anthropology and mythemes and technology and his love of and sensitivity to music in its different forms - and the media's ability to deceive playfully and use it against itself - is thought-provoking and deserves a much greater study in detail. The futuristically mixed product here of the past and the more recent past which works as a banaustic music-scape that he re-creates for us then as a listening space in cybertime and cyberspace is deliciously pranksterish and a fascinating experiment that opens one's mind to many different pathways in it, to say the least!!!
Listen and in "conversations" enjoy his insight into an extremely relevant issue of today that is connected to this and filtered through the works of people like Glenn Gould and Michele Certeau, in the related interview.
http://louderwhisper.crisap.org/?/conversations/yashas/
Most of all though, apart from all the theory and jargon I have just spouted, this strange and haunting work speaks for itself.
Listen and enter its interstices.
Wednesday, June 01, 2011
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
Subscribe To
Posts
All Comments