DFW study conference 2019

[Anonymous No.13333804]

>June 27-29, IL state uni
Less than a week left! Is anyone here going to attend the conference?

[Anonymous No.13333806]

No [1]
[1] discernible talent.

[Anonymous No.13333820]

>>13333806
of /lit/? or the conf?

[Anonymous No.13333841]

At least the last year sounds fun:A random guy who never heard of dfw before was in charge, and because of the #MeToo he "received at least one strongly worded letter from a member of the ISU community calling him out for “honoring someone who had taken advantage of women, particularly students,”".
https://theoutline.com/post/5543/david-foster-wallace-conference-profile

[Anonymous No.13333868]

>>13333841
>In her view, to protest a “bad artist” by ignoring their work is to engage in "a neoliberal, late capitalist mode of understanding or encountering art.” “If we consider resistance in this way, as a form of boycott, it immediately turns that disengagement into an individual consumer action," she said. And if the Bad Artist in question is shielded — by Weinstein-style wealth, or by being dead — then “they are effortlessly exonerated in this model.”

[Anonymous No.13333879]

>>13333868
>if the Bad Artist in question is shielded — by Weinstein-style wealth, or by being dead
yeah, what a sexist. he should stop being dead and take the criticism in person

[Anonymous No.13333902]

>>13333868
could have fit in several more buzzwords, 4/10

[Anonymous No.13333905]

>>13333868
>effortlessly exonerated
>by being dead
I thought westerners think suicide is admitting guilt and chinese are the opposite.

[Anonymous No.13333914]

>>13333841
>>13333868
What is wrong with modern people? Even if an author straight up murdered someone else it is completely independent of their writing ability and our subsequent analyses of their works.

[Anonymous No.13334188]

>>13333914
yeah we should really take a rapist's literature seriously /sarcasm

[Anonymous No.13334195]

>>13334188
you should be raped desu

[Anonymous No.13334200]

>>13334188
What if an artist took advantage of men is that still cool?

[Anonymous No.13334204]

>>13334195
a/s/l?

[Anonymous No.13334208]

>>13333841
Death of the author. Why can lit students not understand that? Why would that not apply here?

[Anonymous No.13334212]

>>13333868
>shielded by being dead
Jesus Christ lol every day we live in a society

[Anonymous No.13334213]

[Anonymous No.13334219]

>>13333804
There are plenty of things wrong with him but this whole thing is an entirely parasitic and faggy gesture that only serves to validate him by proving that there's still marrow to be sucked from his bones in spite of his failings.

[Anonymous No.13334227]

>>13334188
You reddit go baf did nnd

[Anonymous No.13334235]

>>13334188
the guy who made the best selling music album of all time and changed the cultural landscape of pop music forever was a serial pedophile

DFW was an author who earned the admiration of Zadie Smith, a woman of color. Does that suddenly mean nothing after finding out all of the things DFW did? How do you rationalize DFW's appeal to women of color with the things DFW did to women? Both of those things will always exist. DFW wrote literature that spoke to women and he also did bad things to women.

Also, what about before an artist does something bad? Michael Jackson wasn't raping little kids when he was a kid. Does that mean it's okay to listen to the Jackson Five but not MJ's solo work? Is it okay to watch Rosemary's Baby because Polansky directed it before he raped someone, but not The Pianist because he directed it after he raped someone?

I don't think we get to pick and choose, we can only accept great art when it comes to us.

and before you start with the "hurr MJ is innocent" shtick keep in mind the only people denying MJ did all those things are /pol/fags because of that one song where he used a slur against Jews, his living family, and people using the idea of MJ's innocence as a defense mechanism so they don't have to deal with the fact that they enjoy a pedophile's work

[Anonymous No.13334237]

Looking forward to DFW's Cadaver Synod

[Anonymous No.13334240]

>>13333804
>This book examines the writing of David Foster Wallace, hailed as the voice of a generation on his death. Critics have identified horror of solipsism, obsession with sincerity and a corresponding ambivalence regarding postmodern irony, and detailed attention to contemporary culture as the central elements of Wallace's writing. Clare Hayes-Brady draws on the evolving discourses of Wallace studies, focusing on the unifying anti-teleology of his writing, arguing that that position is a fundamentally political response to the condition of neo-liberal America.

>She argues that Wallace's work is most unified by its resistance to closure, which pervades the structural, narrative and stylistic elements of his writing. Taking a broadly thematic approach to the numerous types of 'failure', or lack of completion, visible throughout his work, the book offers a framework within which to read Wallace's work as a coherent whole, rather than split along the lines of fiction versus non-fiction, or pre- and post-Infinite Jest, two critical positions that have become dominant over the last five years. While demonstrating the centrality of 'failure', the book also explores Wallace's approach to sincere communication as a recurring response to what he saw as the inane, self-absorbed commodification of language and society, along with less explored themes such as gender, naming and heroism.

>Situating Wallace as both a product of his time and an artist sui generis, Hayes-Brady details his abiding interest in philosophy, language and the struggle for an authentic self in late-twentieth-century America.


so can anyone tell me what the fuck this means?

[Anonymous No.13334252]

>>13334213
Geez Dave, easy on the Skyrim mods...

[Anonymous No.13334259]

>>13334188
What about cases like that of Tookie Williams?

[Anonymous No.13334303]

[Anonymous No.13334367]

>>13334240
It reads like collegiate newspeak designed to make Wallace sound like a bore, a curiousity, and a neurotic. It reads like a medical dissection of Wallace written by someone with no appreciation for what he was doing.

[Anonymous No.13334384]

>>13334237
>woah what a weird picture
>look up cadaver synod on wiki
>read the whole thing
>including how the synod got annulled, reverified, annulled again, and reverified again

Jesus.

[Anonymous No.13334385]

>>13333804
I hope each white male attending this conference is watched closely. Better yet, white males should be gatherered in pairs and monitored by a progressive.

[Anonymous No.13334978]

>>13334385
according to the article it's white only conference.

>The closest thing I saw to a Wallace bro at the conference barely fit the description: a man in his early twenties who wore a suit and tie on all three days of the conference (the only one, at any point, to do so) and carried his copy of Infinite Jest from panel to panel. On occasion I spotted him kind of tenderly rubbing the book up and down its fore edge in a way that verged on obscene

[Anonymous No.13335120]

>>13334240
>resistance to closure, which pervades the structural, narrative and stylistic elements of his writing

Is clear. The novels deny payoff for the reader or achievement for the cast. Reasonable observation.

> rather than split along the lines of fiction versus non-fiction, or pre- and post-Infinite Jest

Claims that you can extend this idea to the essays, which I don't buy at all, but there might be an argument.

> arguing that that position is a fundamentally political response

Now we're getting tenuous.

> a recurring response to what he saw as the inane, self-absorbed commodification of language and society

Has now fallen off the map and is just accusing everything of being inherently political.

[Anonymous No.13336027]

>>13334235
okay rape apologist

[Anonymous No.13336038]

>>13334978
I wonder if he's role playing the senior Incandenza or something

[Anonymous No.13336048]

>>13334235
>I don't think we get to pick and choose, we can only accept great art when it comes to us.
This probably needs to be said more.

[Anonymous No.13336130]

>>13333879
that's the whole point. she's saying that that model of protest is meaningless since criticism of them is, at its lowest, based entirely on whether or not they are open to receive punishment.

[Anonymous No.13336149]

>>13334240
DFW wanted to define himself but couldn't remove his own identity from a sick society. It's the angst central to American art and why it sucks 95% of the time. Rather than building on its own cultural heritage, it's self-terraforming