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Understanding Backwards While Living Forwards
“At Bennington the self was a creation; the life was a kind of performance art.” Jonathan Lethem
Mitch Hampton
Oct 2, 20249 min read
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.
Mitch Hampton
Sep 1, 20249 min read
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
Mitch Hampton
Jul 1, 202412 min read
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...
Mitch Hampton
Jan 1, 20249 min read
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...
Mitch Hampton
Oct 2, 20239 min read
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...
Mitch Hampton
May 1, 20237 min read
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...
Mitch Hampton
Mar 1, 20236 min read
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...
Mitch Hampton
Jan 1, 20237 min read
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...
Mitch Hampton
Dec 1, 20225 min read
"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,...
Mitch Hampton
Oct 1, 20229 min read
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...
Mitch Hampton
Aug 1, 20227 min read
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...
Mitch Hampton
Jul 1, 20225 min read
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...
Mitch Hampton
Jun 1, 20226 min read
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...
Mitch Hampton
Apr 1, 20226 min read
It's All In The Style
"I am not saying that a work of art creates a world which is entirely self-referring. Of course works of art (with the important...
Mitch Hampton
Feb 1, 20226 min read
August through the lens
Our podcast host, Mitch Hampton, explores the August blog post through he lens of 1976 beach memories and the film, "Lifeguard"
Mitch Hampton
Aug 1, 20218 min read
Our May Blog Post: " Who Is the Man with The Briefcase?"
"The quotidian is not the most important thing; it's the only thing. All human evil reflects a fleeing from and denial of this truth."...
Mitch Hampton
May 1, 20218 min read
Looking Back ,Springing Forward....The Journey Continues.....
This banner that greeted me when first I started my journey at Interlochen Arts Academy that you also see at the outset of this post has...
Mitch Hampton
Apr 1, 20217 min read
Our "Back to School" Post
An inside look at our September episodes and the connectivity of all the arts.
Mitch Hampton
Sep 3, 20204 min read
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