2 a.m., student packets done, the mind turns to higher things

Mar 072013
 

Time for a little merengue!

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Longtime readers of the NC Blog will recognize these videos (late at night, merengue phantoms haunt me). I am still looking for a suitable Walter Benjamin or Viktor Shklovsky quote to fit in here. Surely, Benjamin had a theory about merengue and modernity. I seem to recall a passage in The Arcades Project —

dg

  3 Responses to “2 a.m., student packets done, the mind turns to higher things”

  1. Anna Maria Johnson says:
    March 7, 2013 at 3:22 pm

    Congrats on finishing the packets! Now the tender hearts will bleed. : )

    Reply
  2. Julie Larios says:
    March 11, 2013 at 6:43 am

    I know what the problem is about Walter Benjamin. You’ve been hunting through The Arcades Project, but you forgot to look here:
    http://walterbenjamin.bandcamp.com/track/this-aint-our-last-dance

    Reply

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