Neighbor-love and Daniil Kharms’ “The Old Woman” (more notes towards an unquiet metaphysics)
Posted on April 18, 2008 - Filed Under , | Leave a Comment
I’ve been thinking about the idea of “the neighbor” for a long time. I was raised in the Methodist Church in Tennessee by parents with fairly eccentric views on religion (at least for the bible belt), and my reception of Christian doctrine and dogma was always pretty bipolar. On the one hand, I [...]
Read More..>>I Made This Just For You…
Posted on April 10, 2008 - Filed Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Muxtape.com is a site that allows you to upload songs for a streaming mixtape type of thing. It’s legal, presumably, because one can’t download the songs. The interface is very pleasing. If you click the above cassette, you can listen to the mix I made to convey how big a crush I have [...]
Read More..>>Self-Consuming Artifacts … towards an unquiet metaphysics
Posted on April 6, 2008 - Filed Under , | 4 Comments
“It looks like a bombed out landscape but it’s not, it is an intentional one”
(Edward Burtynsky, on the demolition of cities in China’s Three Gorges Dam reservoir, Manufactured Landscapes)
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Now China is the air
and Tibet is the ether
Now China is the ether
and Tibet is the air—
(Barrett Watten, “Tibet”)
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Link Barf’d
Posted on April 4, 2008 - Filed Under | Leave a Comment
Today, I’ve made an appearance in Ron’s link-barf. I still want that Silliman-for-Dummies, tho.
Read More..>>Today I Read…
Posted on April 2, 2008 - Filed Under | Leave a Comment
Today I breezed through Johannes‘ neat, engaging translation of Henry Parland. This is one of the many, many interesting and engaging books published by Matvei Yankelevich and company over at UDP over the last couple of years, but it’s my favorite so far, and I think I will return to it often.
I [...]
A break from Kinks covers…
Posted on April 1, 2008 - Filed Under | 2 Comments
About two weeks ago, Kasey posted this amusing and intriguing bit about poet-labels and genealogies (derived from a debate happening at the Poetry Foundation that I haven’t read yet, which in turn, of course, is derived from terminology kicked up by Ron Silliman). It just so happens that I have been thinking a [...]
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