tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post469648934824563708..comments2024-03-10T20:46:19.274-04:00Comments on In the Middle: The Sea is a Conveyance-MachineCord J. Whitakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224143153295429986noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-39941282305902757962014-02-24T22:07:23.374-05:002014-02-24T22:07:23.374-05:00@Jeffrey: This is great, thanks for sharing! Love ...@Jeffrey: This is great, thanks for sharing! Love what you are doing with language and etymology here (no surprise, huh?). @Steve and @Sebastian: I'm completing a follow-up blog posting to this one that touches some of these issues (maritime connectivity and verticality) so stay tuned! And I do look forward to the Sobecki/Goldie 2016 postmedieval issue as well.Jonathan Hsyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13214201468052661183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-85473750471941785312014-02-19T11:24:27.441-05:002014-02-19T11:24:27.441-05:00Thanks, Steve and Sebastian!
Steve, I need to thi...Thanks, Steve and Sebastian!<br /><br />Steve, I need to think more about verticality. So far most of the drowning is about the narratives that don't stay afloat.<br /><br />The Corrupting Sea is a great book, Sebastian. I think in retrospect it helped spur the conceptualization of <a href="http://us.macmillan.com/culturaldiversityinthebritishmiddleages/JeffreyCohen" rel="nofollow">Cultural Diversity in the British Middle Ages<br />Archipelago, Island, England </a>, a project I'd make more oceanic if I could do again (it speaks so much of flows, but ends up being mostly about islands; still, it is kind of a watery project). I am really looking forward to your postmedieval issue!!Jeffrey Cohenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17346504393740520542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-30203562461877149502014-02-15T20:11:13.639-05:002014-02-15T20:11:13.639-05:00Lovely piece, Jeffrey. If you don't know it al...Lovely piece, Jeffrey. If you don't know it already, Peregrine Horden and Nicholas Purcell's The Corrupting Sea makes a very eloquent argument about maritime connectivity. Matthew Boyd Goldie and I will consider connectivity in the British archipelago for postmedieval in 2016 (with essays by Horden and Steve Mentz, by the way). Sebastian Sobeckihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13526779574168480351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-3587049438812522572014-02-15T20:10:28.875-05:002014-02-15T20:10:28.875-05:00Lovely piece, Jeffrey. If you don't know it al...Lovely piece, Jeffrey. If you don't know it already, Peregrine Horden and Nicholas Purcell's The Corrupting Sea makes a very eloquent argument about maritime connectivity. Matthew Boyd Goldie and I will consider connectivity in the British archipelago for postmedieval in 2016 (with essays by Horden and Steve Mentz, by the way).Sebastian Sobeckihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13526779574168480351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-28089363887945471242014-02-15T16:43:56.118-05:002014-02-15T16:43:56.118-05:00Great reading on a snowy afternoon in CT, after a ...Great reading on a snowy afternoon in CT, after a different snowstorm prevented me from joining Karl for operatic Melville a few days ago. The snow is an anti-conveyance machine...<br /><br />I love the tension here between exchange and loss, the North Atlantic Gyre as transport machine and also a whirlpool that swallows. I'm thinking of the Pequod's end in relation to Nieuw-Holland, and Melville's inverted Calvinism, and other Dutch things. <br /><br />I also think about verticality, of Tashtego nailing the bird to the topmast, and the coffin life-buoy shooting up from the depths. I wonder about the relationship between the whirl of conveyance and the verticality of drowning.<br /><br />Great stuff!Steve Mentzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02927244468764583378noreply@blogger.com