
CIA involvement in 20th century literature
The Blindboy Podcast
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There's book called workshops of empire by eric bennet, and he argues that anti communist organizations and c i a fronts funded these writer workshops. And some of the things that were taught were, when you're writing, you write sensations, not doctrines, experiences, not dogmas, memories not philosophies. It's argued that this was a way to depoliticize american writing,. make the work abstract, metaphorical, individualist, open to interpretation.
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