2006-09-29T08:12:00.000-07:00

"Through me the way is to the city dolent,
Through me the way is to eternal dole,
Through me the way amoung the people lost.
Justice incihted my sublime Creator;
Created in me divine Omnipotence, the highest Wisdom and the primal Love.
Before me there were no created things,
Only eterne, and I eternal last.
All hope abandon, ye who enter in."

Dante's Inferno
At the Gates of Hell

2006-09-21T10:11:00.000-07:00

"Ezra Pound's imperative to "Make It New" neatly encapsulates the spirit of Modernism. This intellectual and aesthetic orientation emerged against the backdrop of constantly advancing technologies, of vigorous industrial developement, of intense urbanization, of redrawn class and national boundries, as well as of revisions to the picture of the physical and moral unive rse. In this world marked not only by rapid transformations, but also by the dissolution of faith in hummanit's onward progress and in the solidity of reality, writers, artists and philosophers came to embrace the transience of truth and beauty. Liberated from conventional ideas of art and the artist, these modernists could now experiment with "new" ways of "making" (and meaning)."

In the spirit of modernism and the new, it is thus my intention to encorporate a new form of communication to further and expand on the discourse of class material. I hope that this easily accesable classroom in a box will become a resource to us all and that through participation we will all be able to enrich our ideas and rhetoric.

Sincerely
Ashley Knight

Modernist Madness