MEMBER BLOG TAG: public intellectual. emerson * edward said. opening eve: world voices 2011. global corporate state
| Tuesday, April 26, 2011 3:27PM | | | | PUBLIC INTELLECT & CORPORATE STATE | Tags: Public Intellectual. Emerson * Edward Said. Opening Eve: World Voices 2011. Global Corporate State, Writer's Imagination. Salmon Rushdie, nuclear disaster, writing in the 21st century, Mid-East Oil Wars, Writers as Planetary Citizens
| | | | WHERE WAS EMERSON'S & EWARD SAID's "PUBLIC INTELLECTUAL" in the OPENING EVENING: "Written on Water" of WORLD VOICES, 2011?
The opening night of PEN’s 2011 WORLD VOICES FESTIVAL of International Literature began with a call to speak out as writers, since those of us present were not as censored from Freedom of Speech as many are around the globe. A list of great books that have been censored was screened from Milton's Paradise Lost to Voltaire's Candide. The seventh annual festival was designed to celebrate the power of the writer’s voice to revitalize public debate on critical world issues, but the opening night’s event at the Lighthouse, Chelsea Piers on the Hudson, didn’t adhere well... | | | | | |
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