{"id":28984,"date":"2012-04-24T10:36:01","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T14:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=28984"},"modified":"2012-04-24T10:36:01","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T14:36:01","slug":"frye-alert-of-culture-and-condos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2012\/04\/24\/frye-alert-of-culture-and-condos\/","title":{"rendered":"Frye Alert: Of Culture and Condos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/2012\/04\/24\/frye-alert-of-culture-and-condos\/ofcultureandcondos\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-28986\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-28986\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/04\/ofcultureandcondos-300x153.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/04\/ofcultureandcondos-300x153.jpg 300w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2012\/04\/ofcultureandcondos.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Courtesy of Bob Denham,\u00a0 another Frye sighting, and a very interesting one indeed: an article by Kyle Carsten Wyatt in <em>The Walrus<\/em>.\u00a0 The article puts together Frye&#8217;s ideas about Canadian Culture and the &#8220;condominium mentality&#8221; he saw as superseding the earlier &#8220;garrison mentality&#8221; he discusses in <em>The Bush Garden<\/em>. The author misunderstands&#8211;unless I am mistaken&#8211;what Frye means by the cultural energies of the country forming a counter-environment. Frye&#8217;s point is that imaginative culture responds to the alienating aspects of its environment by creating a counter-environment, a critical vision of the existing environment in relation to a world that actually makes human sense, as opposed to the absurdity and grotesqueness of the one we face everyday.\u00a0 Otherwise, the article beautifully captures Frye&#8217;s amazing prescience, so far beyond that which passes as cultural studies today.\u00a0 As the author points out, Frye was using the term condominium mentality well before the condo phenomenon really took hold and mushroomed.<\/p>\n<p>You can find the article <a href=\"http:\/\/walrusmagazine.com\/articles\/2012.05-essay-of-culture-and-condos\/1\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of Bob Denham,\u00a0 another Frye sighting, and a very interesting one indeed: an article by Kyle Carsten Wyatt in The Walrus.\u00a0 The article puts together Frye&#8217;s ideas about Canadian Culture and the &#8220;condominium mentality&#8221; he saw as superseding the earlier &#8220;garrison mentality&#8221; he discusses in The Bush Garden. 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