{"id":3723,"date":"2010-09-30T18:47:24","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T01:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/?p=3723"},"modified":"2010-09-30T18:47:24","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T01:47:24","slug":"average-delusions-beautiful-delusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/2010\/09\/30\/average-delusions-beautiful-delusion\/","title":{"rendered":"Average delusions, Beautiful Delusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/flavorwire.com\/120858\/laurie-andersons-beautiful-delusion\">article by Judy Berman on Flavorwire<\/a> about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurieanderson.com\/\">Laurie Anderson<\/a>&#8216;s latest project, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bam.org\/view.aspx?pid=2225\">Delusion<\/a> &lt;&#8211;this link goes to Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM).\u00a0 See a review of the show in the SFGate <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.sfgate.com\/2010-05-07\/entertainment\/20887962_1_dead-woman-story-delusion\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a video interview with Anderson (on both the Flavorwire page as well as BAM&#8217;s) in which Anderson observes that almost every artist can say that dreams are part of their inspiration. Then she adds:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>How does that affect, then, as you&#8217;re cooking up these images at night, your waking self? That sense of duality is totally key to Delusion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not sure if she meant capital-D Delusion (that is, her show) or small-d delusion (the mental state).<\/p>\n<p>But in either case it&#8217;s a provocative thought.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/\/tmp\/Flavorwire%20%C2%BB%20Laurie%20Anderson%E2%80%99s%20Beautiful%20Delusion-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurieanderson.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/img.skitch.com\/20101001-qjp7gswirwjiww22fj9qe8chr5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"363\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">&#8230;And, speaking of delusion, as it happens I just bailed early from a lecture by David Korten because I found it too delusional (not to mention patronizing and full of platitudes). I&#8217;ve also noticed that my tolerance for walking into a room full of wanna-be world-changers and getting nearly knocked out by B.O. has plummeted about as much as the stock market. My nose, it seems, isn&#8217;t delusional at all and can still tell when something is rank.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/\/tmp\/Flavorwire%20%C2%BB%20Laurie%20Anderson%E2%80%99s%20Beautiful%20Delusion.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>(Pardon the grumpy and wtf tone, back to more cogent programming tomorrow, I hope&#8230;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting article by Judy Berman on Flavorwire about Laurie Anderson&#8216;s latest project, Delusion &lt;&#8211;this link goes to Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM).\u00a0 See a review of the show in the SFGate here. There&#8217;s a video interview with Anderson (on both the Flavorwire page as well as BAM&#8217;s) in which Anderson observes that almost every artist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1242],"tags":[16037],"class_list":["post-3723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just_so","tag-laurie_anderson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3723"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3730,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3723\/revisions\/3730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/yulelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}