Entries published during August, 2018

August 16, 2018

Event 86: The New Presentism

The New Presentism:
Interventions of the Ordinary Crisis
ASAP 10, New Orleans
Saturday, 20 October 2018 (program link t/k)

Our seminar, originally a panel session, has been expanded to include five presenters, listed below; an enrolled and a public audience; and the opportunity to circulate papers that will be discussed over the 2-hour seminar. As the ASAP registration portal for seminars has closed, if you would like to take part in the seminar please contact the session organizer, and you will be enrolled in the seminar and printed in the program. Please do so by September 1 to make sure you are included on the website and printed materials. Contact: b.watten@wayne.edu.

Featured participants: 

  • Danielle Pafunda (University of Maine)
  • Rodrigo Toscano (The Labor Institute)
  • Tyrone Williams (Xavier University, Cincinnati)
  • Barrett Watten (Wayne State University)

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August 12, 2018

Entry 35: On Bearing an Inscription

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Yesterday I joined many millions throughout the history of humanity and submitted to ritual scarification, of my own volition and free will: I got a tattoo, my first after many years of sworn testimony that I would never do so. Like any complex choice, there was a before and an after—I had been visually imagining and verbally debating such a decision for years, months, and days leading up to the act, which took place on August 11, 2018, in the company of two friends, at the hand of Zach Hewitt at Signature Tattoo on Nine Mile Road in Ferndale, Michigan. The consequences of this act after resonate across time, space, and my work as a writer, beginning now. … More

August 5, 2018

Event 85: Goodbye Paris Motel (I Met)

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Travels in France with Carla Harryman
(Languedoc, Burgundy, Paris, Brittany)
19 July–1 August 2018

Note: while my main purpose in making pages like these, often with a variation of the heading “I Met (after On Kawara),” is conceptual, indexical, linguistic—I am fascinated with the minimal representation of people, art, places, and events given simply by their names or locations or modes of transport—there is linked content as well, which awaits the visitor.

Thursday–Friday, July 19–20

Delta Airlines DTW > CDG
SNCF TGV > Nîmes
Service publique Occitaine transports/car > Valleraugue
Chez de Laroque / Hôtel Valleraugue

Carla Harryman
Françoise de Laroque
Juliette de Laroque
Mathieu Saunier

Saturday, July 21

Thomas Bouvrot
Eva-Léa Le Roux

Rive l’Hérault

Sunday, July 22

Rive l’Hérault

Car/Service publique Occitaine transports > Nîmes
Hôtel Amphitheatre, Nîmes

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