Engl507

University of Victoria
Jentery Sayers
Spring 2015

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Seminar Notes: Meeting 2 (Digging + Distancing)

Here are some ways to approach the entanglements of mediation and critique:

Responses to Galloway's "Love of the Middle"

You might argue that Galloway gives us at least five types of communication/mediation that are intricately linked to specific forms of critique:

Discussion

Is critique mediation all the way down? Is criticism ever immediate? Why or why not?

Has critique run out of steam?

What motivates claims for "post-critical" scholarship?

How do we think about mediation and critique together? Or how do we understand the histories of technology and literary/cultural criticism as entangled phenomena?

Can mediation even be historicized? Wouldn't such a history require some significant interpretive leaps?