http://cultureby.com/2009/01/john-updike-american-anthropologist.html This Blog Sits At the Intersection of Anthropology and Economics Sat, 20 Mar 2010 11:33:19 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://cultureby.com/2009/01/john-updike-american-anthropologist.html/comment-page-1#comment-911 Tomas Hrivnak Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:11:49 +0000 http://grantmccracken.com/cco/http:/grantmccracken/page-title#comment-911 <p>John Updike was exotic. For us behind the iron curtain, at least. Reading Updike at the university in Czechoslovakia in 1988 felt - well - subversive. There wasn't supposed to be any "normality" in the life of the American middle class. Of course, we were not fooled by what was at that time a crumbling ideological construct of "imperialist America", but somehow our adoration of the "American way of life" was equally hollow. Updike came as a revelation. Today, I became to belileve that what we fought for back in 1989 was this kind of normality which, very quickly, took over our lives as well.</p> John Updike was exotic. For us behind the iron curtain, at least. Reading Updike at the university in Czechoslovakia in 1988 felt – well – subversive. There wasn't supposed to be any "normality" in the life of the American middle class. Of course, we were not fooled by what was at that time a crumbling ideological construct of "imperialist America", but somehow our adoration of the "American way of life" was equally hollow. Updike came as a revelation. Today, I became to belileve that what we fought for back in 1989 was this kind of normality which, very quickly, took over our lives as well.

]]> http://cultureby.com/2009/01/john-updike-american-anthropologist.html/comment-page-1#comment-910 coffee Fri, 30 Jan 2009 07:20:40 +0000 http://grantmccracken.com/cco/http:/grantmccracken/page-title#comment-910 <p>John Updike's passing is sad, but he left a ton of awesome work. "Immortality is nontransferrable" he said appropriately. </p> John Updike's passing is sad, but he left a ton of awesome work. "Immortality is nontransferrable" he said appropriately.

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