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
Sep 19 min
Values And Sensibility in Education
All of us have feelings like these over cultural products like books or movies, that I am categorizing as works of art.
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Mitch Hampton
Jul 112 min
More 1970s Reflections - Learning about music and more through historical time
I state all of this in this post only with the empowerment of hindsight,in the attempt to move towards giving an account in prose of my life
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Mitch Hampton
Jan 19 min
January: "A Most Personal Post"
With the turning of one year into another on this partly artificial, partly natural social calendar, I find myself moved to focus yet...
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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
May 1, 20237 min
May Post: Philosophy and Daily Life
In April I wrote at far greater length than I perhaps should have about Immanuel Kant. It immediately reminded me of Tim Scanlon's joke...
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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
Jan 1, 20237 min
On the Aesthetics of our Snapshots as History Turns
The month of January of course makes me think about the passage of time - both within single eras and from one era to the discontinuous...
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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
Oct 1, 20229 min
"Acting in Character"
"Usually there is a protagonist who the audience watches the movie THROUGH. But then you need that OTHER guy in the story." (Ned Beatty,...
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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
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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