Understanding Backwards While Living Forwards
“At Bennington the self was a creation; the life was a kind of performance art.” Jonathan Lethem
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Mitch Hampton
Aug 112 min
My Journey With Productions and Representations Past and Present
My Journey With Productions and Representations Past and Present
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Mitch Hampton
Mar 17 min
March 2024- The Place of Aesthetics in Personal Biography
As of late in these posts I have been discussing my personal relationship with all sorts of art objects that happen to occupy a greater...
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Mitch Hampton
Oct 2, 20239 min
October Post: Demy, Varda and Our Reception of Styles
I don’t like labels that classify you and file you away as a little ‘romantic.’ Perhaps Lola was romantic, but Les Parapluies de...
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Mitch Hampton
Jun 1, 20237 min
June post: Cinephelia and Summer
"There is nothing quite like that moment when the lights go down and all our hopes are concentrated on the screen." Pauline Kael Readers...
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Mitch Hampton
Apr 1, 20236 min
On Being An Archivist of One's Own Life
Last month I went into a little detail about my return visit to my former home of Boston. Embedded inside is my little theory about the...
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Mitch Hampton
Mar 1, 20236 min
March Post: The Reception of Art and Personal Experience
We like March. His Shoes are Purple — He is new and high — Makes he Mud for Dog and Peddler. Makes he Forests dry. Knows the Adder Tongue...
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Mitch Hampton
Dec 1, 20225 min
Snapshots In Season
One of the results of having the immensely good fortune to be able to host this podcast has been the development of my “snapshot” idea or...
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Mitch Hampton
Nov 1, 20227 min
The End of The Phone
For what I now realize was quite a long period of time, from 1987/88 when first I lived on my own to about 2007 or so, the phone occupied...
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Mitch Hampton
Sep 1, 20225 min
Styles of Back to School Prose
With September comes thoughts of endeavors that get categorized in our culture as intellectual pursuits. Part of this is of course the...
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Mitch Hampton
Aug 1, 20227 min
Getting philosophical with Snapshots,Books and Beaches
August is, of course, a central month in the Summer. In the past year I have been organizing all of my personal effects, mainly...
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Mitch Hampton
Jul 1, 20225 min
On Concepts, Categories and Lived Experience
"The time to make up your mind about people is never." Tracy Lord in The Philadelphia Story (Donald Ogden Stewart/Philip Barry/George...
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Mitch Hampton
Jun 1, 20226 min
The Presence of the Past
If I recall correctly, my last June post was in part a celebration and analysis of musicals, in particular my endless fascination with...
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Mitch Hampton
May 2, 20226 min
Why I am a Cinephile
What follows is an incomplete list/prose/poem: I am a cinephile because I actually believe what Robert Bresson believed about the camera...
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Mitch Hampton
Apr 1, 20226 min
April:On Getting in Touch With One's Feelings
George W. S. Trow, the public intellectual, humorist, essayist, screenwriter, journalist and many other things, closes his last book...
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