July 5, 2013
I Met (Paterson)
5th Biennial Conference
of the William Carlos Williams Society
William Paterson University
27-29 June 2013
(After On Kawara)
Stephen Hahn
Scott Peterson
Alisa Allkins
Kyle Allkins
Joshua Keiter
Kate Schnur
Christopher Wagstaff
Alec Marsh
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June 6, 2013
Reading @ Nuremberg
Bavarian-American Academy
Stadtbibliothek Nürnberg
7:30 PM, 27 May 2013
For my reading, I took as a model my 1999 presentation at Kelly Writers House, about which Brian Ang wrote perceptively [here]. In that event, I used stanzas from “Non-Events” as my guide, alternating between a regular progress through the poem as semantic and rhythmic baseline, while adding selections from Bad History and prose from The Constructivist Moment. … More
Susann Köhler, Alisa Allkins, Tanja Aho, Ed Brown / May 2013, Munich
I Met (Munich/Nuremberg)
5th Annual Exchange Program
Bavarian-American Academy, Munich
Universität Erlangen/Nürnberg
20 May-1 June 2012
(After On Kawara)
Alisa Allkins
Ed Brown
Vinny Haddad
Mahshid Mayer
Marcus Merritt
Jonathan Plumb
Melanie Zynel
Meike Zwingenberger
Heike Paul
Klaus Benesch
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May 15, 2013
An advance copy of A Guide to Poetics Journal: Writing in the Expanded Field, 1982-98 has just arrived. Orders may be placed now but will be fulfilled later (check here for updates on delivery). The entire project will not be “launched” until Fall 2013, when the companion Poetics Journal Digital Archive–which reprints nearly all of the 124 articles, 1600 published pages of the original journal in searchable, digital form–will be available. UPNE’s site for the anthology is here; a table of contents for the Guide may be found here. Click on either cover for a larger version.
May 14, 2013
A listing of titles acquired in my recent tour of Bay Area book sellers.
Literary and Cultural Theory
Brill, Dorothée. Shock and the Senseless in Dada and Fluxus. Hanover, N.H.: Dartmouth University Press, 2010.
Löwy, Michael. Morning Star: Surrealism, Marxism, Anarchism, Situationism, Utopia. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009.
Maza, Sarah. Violette Nozière: A Story of Murder in 1930s Paris. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011.
Rensmann, Lars, and Samir Gandesha, eds. Arendt & Adorno: Philosophical and Political Investigations. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2012.
Poetry
Alexander, Will. Compression & Purity. San Francisco: City Lights, 2011.
Brathwaite, Kamau. Trench Town Rock. Providence, R.I.: Lost Roads, 1994.
Brown, Brandon. Flowering Mall. New York: Roof Books, 2012. Signed by the author.
Cooper, Wayne. ed. The Passion of Claude McKay: Selected Prose and Poetry, 1912-1948. New York: Schocken, 1973.
I Met (Berkeley/Oakland/SF)
9-13 May 2013
(After On Kawara)
Amy Smith
Suzanne Stein
Jan Watten
Emilie Watten
Jamie Brunson
Karen Yandow
Randy Hussong
Suzy Barnard
Betty Jo Costanza
Clint Imboden
Brian Ang
Sara Larsen
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April 24, 2013
An annotated bibliography from travels to Lodz and Warsaw, April 2013, with apologies for the lack of Polish characters and diacritics.
Modern History
Czerwinska-Rydel, Anna. W poszukiwaniu swiatla: Opowiesc a Marii Sklodowskiej-Curie. Warsaw: Akademia rozwuju wyubrazni BUKA. CD. Radio play on the life of Marie Curie, read by Anna Dymna.
Frankowski, Artur. Typespotting: Warszawa. Warsaw: Bec Zmiana, 2010. A guide to Warsaw through street signage and ad typography.
Kisny, Tomasz. Wielki Terror, 1937-1938 [The Great Terror, 1937-1938]. Warsaw: Narodowe centrum kultury, 2013. Photodocumentary of victims of Stalinist purges and terror trials, with contemporary images of remembrance. [See image.]
Kusinski, Jacek, Ryszard Bonislawski, and Maciej Janik. Ksiega fabryk Lodz. Lodz: Wydawnictwo Jacek Kusinski, 2009. Catalogue of industrial buildings in Lodz, then and now.
April 16, 2013
I Met (Lodz/Warszawa)
Constellations: Art and
the Experience of Modernity
Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland
10–15 April 2013 (After On Kawara)
Julia Fiedorczuk
Marcin Sendecki
Malgorzata Ludwisiak
Jaroslaw Lubiak
Daniel Muzyczuk
Pawel Polit
Przemyslaw Purtak
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April 6, 2013
N. Katherine Hayles, “Speculative Realism and Speculative Finance: Exploring the Connections.” The 2013 Dennis Turner Memorial Lecture, Department of English, Wayne State University, 5 April 2013.
[KH abstract: Graham Harman’s object-oriented ontology (OOO) bears some startling similarities to contemporary finance capital, including the construction of objects whose content is obscure, increasing levels of abstraction, and the absorption of relations into objects. What can account for these convergences between two fields that are emphatically not engaged in conversation with each other? In exploring the question, this talk will discuss the economic conditions that currently shape academic employment as well as the financial markets.]
[BW disclaimer: the following are notes taken on my iPad during the lecture. No claims are made to adequately represent the structure and continuity of Hayles’s nuanced argument. Rather, these are “points sublimes” formulated in thinking along with her lecture. New arguments may be built out of them. Remarks in brackets are sidebars for responses or threads to pursue later.]
The Trading Pit and the Ivory Tower
[BW: boom and bust capitalism and devel of new media poetics]
global ecology and global finance as two great anxieties
mediation between/as spec realism [question of mediation; what is it?]
“secret alliances with speculative finance” with OOO [object-oriented ontology] as transducer
= “changing the construction of signals/values”
March 2, 2013
Michael Schmidt’s dissertation, “The Materialism of the Encounter: Queer Sociality and Capital in Modern Literature,” is scheduled for its defense in the Wayne State Department of English at 11 AM, Tuesday, March 19, 10302 5057 Woodward Avenue, Detroit. This a public defense. After its conclusion, I will post the abstract here.
