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Category Archives: Okla Elliott
Agnosticism and Atheism: Five Misconceptions, Five Quotes, and One Video
Agnosticism and Atheism: Five Misconceptions, Five Quotes, and One Video by Okla Elliott [The following clarifications of popular misconceptions do not by any means exhaust the number of spurious claims made on the subject, but I hope they will help … Continue reading
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Tagged Agnosticism, Aldous Huxley, Atheism, Bertrand Russell, Jean-Paul Sartre, Morality, Okla Elliott, Sam Harris
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Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre
Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre loom over twentieth-century thought. It is hard to imagine feminism, leftist politics, literature, philosophy, or queer studies in the twentieth century without these two giants. Their work has been the topic for hundreds of … Continue reading
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Tagged Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre, Okla Elliott, Simone de Beauvoir
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Existential Echoes: Toward a Genealogy of Ideas in Albert Camus’s “The Myth of Sisyphus”
Existential Echoes: Toward a Genealogy of Ideas in Albert Camus’s “The Myth of Sisyphus” by Okla Elliott In the decades since their deaths, much has been made about the rivalry between Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus, but it would be … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Camus, Existentialism, Jean-Paul Sartre, Martin Heidegger, Okla Elliott, The Myth of Sisyphus
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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: OKLA ELLIOTT
ON PERFECTION By Okla Elliott 1. My arrogance is perfect— I want everything I say taken down in italics. I want footnotes longer than the original text. Every woman and many men will want to look into the green almond … Continue reading
Consider the Rant: A Book Review
Consider the Rant by Okla Elliott On Pain of Speech: Fantasies of the First Order and the Literary Rant Dina Al-Kassim University of California Press ISBN 978-0-520-25925-6 $34.95 Paperback $28.00 E-Book In Dina Al-Kassim’s new book On Pain of Speech: … Continue reading
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Tagged Aimé Césaire, Bataille, Book Review, Dina Al-Kassim, Foucault, Oscar Wilde, rant, University of California Press
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Incomplete Thoughts on Wisconsin and Political Enthusiasm
Incomplete Thoughts on Wisconsin and Political Enthusiasm by Okla Elliott (with photos by Jenna Bowen) “In Kant’s philosophy of history, crisis or tension is necessary for human progress. He is pessimistic about individual success[es] but confident about mankind.” —Sidney Axinn, … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, Cary Nelson, Cultural Theory, Egypt, Kant, Libya, Marx, Obama, Okla Elliott, Progressives, Sidney Axinn, Wisconsin
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Sin’s Fatal Taint: the Felony Murder Rule and its Discontents
Sin’s Fatal Taint: the Felony Murder Rule and its Discontents by Okla Elliott We’ve all heard of outdated laws that remain on the books from earlier times — such as laws about how many pigs are allowed inside a house … Continue reading
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Tagged Felony Murder Rule, Hunter S Thompson, Janet Danahey, Justice, Law, Legal History, Legal Theory, Okla Elliott
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Erlking
[The following translation was originally published in Per Contra.] Erlking by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (translation by Okla Elliott) Who rides so late through windy night? A father holding his child tight. He has the youngster well in his arm, … Continue reading
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Tagged ballad, Faust, German literature, Goethe, Poetry, Romantic poetry, Translation
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SATURDAY POETRY SERIES PRESENTS: OKLA ELLIOTT
By Okla Elliott: THE IDIOT’S FAITH Three lanterns floated in the dream she told him, but he didn’t want to hear about lanterns. He wanted factories unbuilt, windows smashed open. He wanted libertine wailings. She denied being a builder of … Continue reading
An Uneasy Revelry: a review of Before Saying Any of the Great Words
An Uneasy Revelry by Okla Elliott “Unease in the ochre-filled skies, unease in the silky /labyrinth of the gut, unease / in the artist’s double, triple nibs” —David Huerta, “Song of Unease” Since many American readers may not be familiar … Continue reading
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Tagged Book Review, Copper Canyon Press, David Huerta, Mexican poetry, Translation
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