tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post1010832995864711886..comments2024-03-24T02:21:53.258-07:00Comments on william morris unbound: News from Nowhere, Oxford, 1986-91Tony Pinkneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10044449613701140938noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post-10757582239594055062009-03-30T09:56:00.000-07:002009-03-30T09:56:00.000-07:00My only direct contact with OEL was attendance at ...My only direct contact with OEL was attendance at the State of Criticism Conference in 86. Celtic, Catholic working-class, I arrived with a sense of anticipation, ref Williams-Eagleton axis, but was generally bored by the nowhere-ness and departed dis-appointed. The more petit-bourgeois caucus of OEL proceeded to take the career ride on the silver big-bang dream machine that Thatcher launched that very same year. NfN has now washed up on the far-shore of that traverse, passe as memory, and passe in its lack of contemporaneity, much too compromised by its own line of flight.Peter Bnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post-81033393592523210152009-03-30T09:02:00.000-07:002009-03-30T09:02:00.000-07:00I am a little conflicted. I think Tony Pinkney is...I am a little conflicted. I think Tony Pinkney is much underrated, in as under-read. as a thinker. But my animus is against the arc of his forms.<BR/><BR/>The re-appearance of NfN reminds me of Roy Bland in Tinker Tailor: I have given my conscience to socialism and my practice to capitalism, until I no longer know the difference and what I am upholding. As news from Oxford, News from Nowhere is a misnomer that sits on the nowhere Oxford produces. Ditto William Morris. Each constitute the missed encounter with the liminal of the binary of its own production.Peter Bnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-805540988587071256.post-35571975629366731292009-03-29T00:02:00.000-07:002009-03-29T00:02:00.000-07:00I note that you 'created' the journal. In what se...I note that you 'created' the journal. In what sense is this a materialist analysis of 1986?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com