What is it about?
Using Michele Foucault’s “empirical order of a primary code” and the “middle region which liberates order itself,” the writer explores the idea of generation mentioned within Mick Jagger’s “As Tears Go By,” W.B. Yeats’ “Sailing to Byzantium,” and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak’s “Reading the World.”
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Why is it important?
The writer explains how important knowing critical and cultural theory is for a contemporary poet.
Perspectives
Writing this essay allowed me to explore what is commonly called wisdom in culture whether folk or higher-brow and weigh it against insight that rocks the culture as a whole. When a writer and reader finds him/herself in Foucault's "middle region" where the emperor has no clothes, each receives a new lens for looking at the world.
Rich Murphy
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
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This page is a summary of: Reading Wisdoms, New Writing, November 2012, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/14790726.2012.658068.
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