Monthly Archives for January 2011
Shklovsky
In Viktor Shklovsky’s view, art resists and overturns the deadening effects of habituation. As our “perception becomes habitual,” he argues, “all of our habits retreat into the area of the unconsciously automatic” and as a result “we apprehend objects only … Continue reading →
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risk
Guy de Maupassant’s “The Little Cask” (“Le Petit Fût”) is a short, cautionary narrative of unequal exchange at the border between two economic systems. In brief, an innkeeper has his eye on his neighbor’s farm. But the owner, an old … Continue reading Continue reading
