Bill Berkson Memorial
San Francisco Art Institute
24 July 2016
Moses Berkson
Nathaniel Dorsky
Duncan McNaughton
Mac McGinnes
Clark Coolidge
Norma Cole
Doug Hall
Joanne Kyger
… More
August 7, 2016
Event 61: I Met (Berkson Memorial)
Bavarian-American Academy
Summer Academy
Florida International University
Miami Beach, 5–11 June 2016
Martha Schoolman
Heike Paul
Meike Zwingenberger
Margarethe Schweiger-Wilhelm
John Landreville
… More
Berlin (23–30 May 2016)
Scott DeGregoris
Donna Stonecipher
Manfred Uhlitz
Shane Anderson
Ulf Stolterfoht
Christian Hawkey
Uljana Wolf
Florian Werner
Josepha Conrad
Dorothee Haffner
Susanne Reumschüssel
Paris (30 May–1 June 2016)
Linda Watten
Hélène Aji
May 21, 2016
Document 40: People, Art, Films in New York
Thursday, May 5
Michael Gottlieb
Luc Tuymans @ David Zwirner
Tracey Emin @ Lehman Maupin
The Tale of Tales, dir. Matteo Garone (IFC)
Friday, May 6
Michael Golston
Bruce Andrews
Unfinished @ Met Breuer
Andy Warhol, Electric Chairs @ Venus
Jean-Michel Basquiat, images and words @ t/k
David Hammons @ Mnuchin
Allen Jones @ Michael Werner
Anne Collier @ Anton Kern
Richard Serra @ Gagosian
Sigmar Polke @ David Zwirner
Mike Kelley @ Skarstedt
Jasper Johns @ Mathew Marks
Carlos Motta @ PPOW … More
American Comparative
Literature Association
Harvard University
17–20 March 2016
(after On Kawara)
Johannes Göransson
Jonathan Stalling
Brian Reed
Anastasiya Lyubas
Liansu Meng
Anthony Abiragi
Anna Horakova
Hongjian Wang
Omaar Hena
Michal Wenderski
… More
The Louisville Conference
on Literature and Culture since 1900
University of Louisville
18–20 February 2016
(after On Kawara)
Alan Golding
Aaron Jaffe
Rodrigo Toscano
Lisa Gitelman
Mat Johnson
Johanna Drucker
Lauri Ramey
C.S. Giscombe
Aldon Nielsen
Tyrone Williams
… More
December 28, 2015
Event 56: Poets Theater
From Amiri Baraka, Home on the Range
Festival of Poets Theater
Sector 2337, Chicago
2–5 December 2015
(After On Kawara)
Heidi Bean
Patrick Durgin
Carla Harryman
Devin King
John Beer
Daniel Borzutzky
John Tipton
Jennifer Karmin
Jennifer Rupert
Chris Glomski
Peter O’Leary
Laura Goldstein
Dan Godston
Analeah Rosen … More
Barrett Watten, “The Poet/Critic:
Transvaluations of Value after Modernism”
MSA, 20 November 2015
I continue my discussion of the poetics of value in modernism (Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams) in taking up political economy and poetics as twin forms of historically specific making, twin discourses of the determination of value. For poetics as value making, let me advance that the thirty-six individual essays in our recent Guide to Poetics Journal, along with the editorial and publication work involved in soliciting, editing, rethinking, and repurposing their content, counts as such. Each essay in our Guide—for example, Ron Silliman on “the parsimony principle,” George Lakoff on avant-garde framing, Susan Howe on Emily Dickinson, Lyn Hejinian on “the rejection of closure,” in the volume’s first section—demonstrates how poetry is a value-making activity, in giving value to it. … More
Transvaluations of Value: Poetics and Political Economy
Session P28, 8:30–10:00 A.M., Friday, 20 November 2015
Modernist Studies Association
Herman Rapaport, “Transvaluations of Value: Fredric Jameson, Jackson Mac Low”
Barrett Watten, “The Poet/Critic: Transvaluations of Value After Modernism”
Tyrone Williams, “‘The Changing Same’: Value in Marx and Amiri Baraka”
This panel takes up debates between poetics and political economy after the recent turn to Marxist political economy as a materialist interpretive strategy for poetry and poetics. In a contrary move, a return to the aesthetic as a construction of value, sited in a more classical reading of modernist form by Charles Altieri, appropriates the concept of “value” for self-reflexive poetic forms. The three presenters will develop approaches to the concept of value that are irreducible either to economism, especially the commodity form, or to the aesthetic, e.g. modernism, and will seek to articulate more inclusive accounts of value that extend political economy to other value-producing registers in the horizons of art, history, ethics, and politics. [See next post.]
Modernist Studies Association
Boston, Massachusetts
19–22 November 2015
(after On Kawara)
Herman Rapaport
Tyrone Williams
Carla Billiterri
Ben Friedlander
Alisa Allkins
Alan Golding
Aaron Nyerges
Sarah Posman
Dorothy Wang
Rachel Galvin
Kaplan Harris
… More
Poetics
The Grand Piano
