All the world’s a stage
Making Sense of the Sublime
If Goffman’s theory of actor and audience can be applied literally, then as an audience member, the best thing I can do when experiencing art is to help the artist feel seen.
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Goblins and me
Worm memories
Some years ago, I tried out that Google Arts & Culture app that matches your selfie to a famous portrait, and my result was a painting of a goblin.
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Give me the splendid, silent sun
Here, then, is my last toast to you, Berkeley. For giving to make me glutted and enriched in my soul, for teaching me to treasure the sun so much.
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Student Research | Finding the poetry in pop music
Campus junior Olivia Wakamoto is involved in research that is blurring the stringent lines often drawn between popular music and poetics.
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A day in the life of a UC Berkeley English major
Just remind yourself that once you get your degree, none of your computer science friends will be able to analyze Walt Whitman as well as you can.
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An explosion here and bombs there
Tales of Two Cities
I was stuck in an elevator in Barrows for 88 minutes — and then there was a fireball on campus. It wasn’t as scary as it sounds, except for those two seconds in the elevator when I misunderstood the student worker who was helping us and thought she was informing us
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