March 3rd, 2013 / 11:20 am
Craft Notes & Mean

How To Be A Critic (pt. 4)

Resist making value judgments.

(Parts 1 & 2 & 3.)

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15 Comments

  1. JosephYoung—

      anybody else not have a scroll bar anymore?

      oh wait, found it.

  2. mimi—

      mine was really slow to appear

  3. HolidayInnExpress—

      Someone just got owned.

  4. Meek—

      passive-agressive much?

  5. A D Jameson—

      Not at all. Entirely aggressive.

      In any case, these are just companion texts. I’m expanding on Chris’s original posts. You know, participating.

  6. Bobby Dixon—

      is cyber bullying like criticism?

  7. Meek—

      Reader-Response Trolling

  8. A D Jameson—

      No, satirical academic criticism is more akin to Islamofascist terrorism. I’m the Ayman al-Zawahiri of Alt Lit.

  9. Jeremy Hopkins—

      ‘I Slam, O Fascist!’
      a Poem in Three-and-a-Half Cantos
      by Percy Bysshe Shelley

  10. shaun gannon—

      youre just jealous its still listed as the top popular post on the sidebar! haw haw

  11. A D Jameson—

      Ooh, you got me! Ooh!

      Nah, I think it’s great that post’s been so popular! I’m not one to begrudge anyone their success. But I am curious to hear how its author reconciles the numerous judgments he makes there with his more recent admonitions not to judge. … Chris?

  12. A D Jameson—

      Also, it’s funny that someone made a new account just to post this. Anonymous much?

  13. Meek—

      My, how very committed!

      It’s not anonymous, nor “just” to post what was posted (by which you mean merely); I’m chiming in as one might a discussion board.

      I apologize if you mis-interpreted my original post; perhaps I read myself in it.

      Prosit posting, comrade!

  14. A D Jameson—

      Meek, you will inherit the blogosphere.

  15. A D Jameson—

      And my own apologies if I misinterpreted you. What nasty thing, interpretation! Better to assume that everyone is really just saying, “I love you,” over and over again in a hundred of different ways.