Foucault is widely applicable. I read a lot more Baudelaire and Zola than I thought I would, and you can pry my Griselda Pollock and Edward Said from my cold, dead, no-longer-able-to-type-citations hands, which will still be applying their writing to non-art history disciplines.

Oh definitely. There are legitimate reasons to include it on a reading list. I just flat-out do not believe that it’s as widely read across disciplines as the writings of Foucault or Baudelaire, for example.

Yeah I don’t mean to dispute that it’s influential. I would argue that it’s not nearly as relevant to most subject areas as this guy evidently thinks it is though. We covered Soviet and pre-Soviet Russian art and film pretty heavily in my two degree subjects and we never bothered to talk about this book’s cultural…

Honestly I want to go back in time and punch out EM Forester for no other reason than we had to read A Passage to India during my first semester of college and it was utter shit and I will never get that time back. (I also feel this way about Dickens. There wasn’t much I really enjoyed from that semester of English.)

My degree is in art history and film from a European university and we never once had so much as a passage from it on our reading lists. (Which were extensive, considering my uni had an emphasis on independent learning.) And it’s not that we didn’t spend a great deal of time on Russian and Soviet art and film, because…

It’s funny, I had some heavy education in Soviet art and film, to the extent that I have seen Man With A Moving Camera more times than I care to count, but never once did we get assigned even a passage of Marx’s manifesto. So I guess part of my point is that you can learn a hell of a lot about the culture of the…

Oh, I certainly think it’s worth reading/studying. I just think that it’s not a critical piece of writing for most college students to the extent that nearly everyone on any given campus has read it by the time they graduate. There are philosophers who almost every Humanities student will read though, I’m pretty sure…

“On college campuses, The Communist Manifesto is one of the most frequently assigned texts.”

Cake Wrecks was the first blog I ever read. I hope they’re getting a cut of this money for their contribution to the cultural zeitgeist.

These kids are all so, so impressive. And what’s most remarkable is that they’ve managed to not react with rage and a slew of curses to these accusations. Which would probably be way more satisfying and would be entirely justified, but they’re all too smart and motivated to let anything so baseless stand in their way,…

LOOK AT THE GOOD ROLY POLY BEARS. WHAT A GOOD BEAR.

I mean, as far as the ballet goes...there are tons of ballets that don’t involve romance as a driving element. There’s Balachine’s Jewels, The Nutcracker, tons of Modernist pieces without any discernible story elements, Anastasia, The Rite of Spring, etc. And I’ve been to see a series of Ashton trios at the ROH that…

It’s a very unique place. There’s certainly a Midwestern quality to it in that so many things seem to have been created out of a way to manage boredom by any means at all.

Give them their own sports show, NBC. GIVE IT TO THEM.

In my mind it should have been 1. Shibutanis, 2. Sexy French, 3. Sexy Canadians. So I at least agree with you in part.

NBC has spent the last decade trying to convince me that curling is a real sport worth watching and I still don’t believe it.

hahahha I’ve only ever competed in time/place sports so I fully admit that I couldn’t do a judged sport because I would just be “BUT YOURE WRONG” all the time, and generally just enjoy that you can’t dispute the winner when you have an objective judge (i.e. time).

BTW I love your kinja name!!!

hahahhahhahhahaha I love that ice dancing is like the one sport everyone gets overly-emotionally invested in every four years. and yeah 100% that would be a plot to a lifetime movie. what I’m saying is that I can see the appeal.

Dancing on knives????