Steven Shaw’s Reviews > Essays of the 1960s & 70s: Against Interpretation / Styles of Radical Will / On Photography / Illness as Metaphor / Uncollected Essays > Status Update
Steven Shaw
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"This mnemonic function explains why every style depends on, and can be analyzed in terms of, some principle of repetition or redundancy." p. 39
— Oct 06, 2025 10:56PM
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Steven Shaw
is on page 371 of 875
Getting little harder to follow as she introduces "Reflections on Cioran," but the last thing I expected was for John Cage to pop up in this piece.
— Dec 15, 2025 11:29PM
Steven Shaw
is on page 311 of 875
Near prophesy in this 1967 essay on The Aesthetics of Silence. Highly recommended..."crumbling distinction between public and private endeavors, between information and secrets...people are suffering from a revulsion at any further proliferation of speech and images..."
— Nov 24, 2025 11:30PM
Steven Shaw
is on page 281 of 875
Her essay on "science and tech" culture at war with "literary and artistic" culture feels quite prescient as we see the former's end-game approach for the taking over the latter.
— Nov 17, 2025 09:16PM
Steven Shaw
is on page 269 of 875
"A work can come close to Camp, but not make it, because it succeeds."
— Nov 10, 2025 04:45PM
Steven Shaw
is on page 182 of 875
I really want to watch some Robert Bresson films, now.
— Oct 27, 2025 10:26PM
Steven Shaw
is on page 170 of 875
Some brutal theatre reviews in part III of the first book.
— Oct 23, 2025 06:07PM
