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Mitch Hampton
Oct 2, 20249 min read
Understanding Backwards While Living Forwards
“At Bennington the self was a creation; the life was a kind of performance art.” Jonathan Lethem
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Mitch Hampton
Sep 1, 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.
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Mitch Hampton
Aug 1, 202412 min read
My Journey With Productions and Representations Past and Present
My Journey With Productions and Representations Past and Present
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Mitch Hampton
Jul 1, 202412 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
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Mitch Hampton
Mar 1, 20247 min read
March 2024- The Place of Aesthetics in Personal Biography
As of late in these posts I have been discussing my personal relationship with all sorts of art objects that happen to occupy a greater...
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Mitch Hampton
Jan 1, 20249 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...
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lauriesstorygarden
Dec 1, 20239 min read
December post: On The Quotidian In Art
QUOTIDIAN, adjective: of or occurring every day; daily ordinary or everyday, especially when mundane “One of the things that always...
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lauriesstorygarden
Nov 1, 20239 min read
Of Things Great and Small, Outer and Inner
What is the relationship between grand exterior events and the discrete, interior things I or we can call art? Or, rather, to be fair to...
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Mitch Hampton
Jun 1, 20237 min read
June post: Cinephelia and Summer
"There is nothing quite like that moment when the lights go down and all our hopes are concentrated on the screen." Pauline Kael Readers...
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Mitch Hampton
Apr 1, 20236 min read
On Being An Archivist of One's Own Life
Last month I went into a little detail about my return visit to my former home of Boston. Embedded inside is my little theory about the...
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Mitch Hampton
Nov 1, 20227 min read
The End of The Phone
For what I now realize was quite a long period of time, from 1987/88 when first I lived on my own to about 2007 or so, the phone occupied...
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Mitch Hampton
Oct 1, 20229 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,...
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Mitch Hampton
Jun 1, 20226 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...
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