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- A Conversation with Brooks Johnson
- The Tragic Interchangeability of Nouns: Cyrus Console’s The Odicy and Ben Lerner’s Leaving the Atocha Station
- The Double Dream of Reason: on Brent Cunningham's Journey to the Sun as satire
- Studies in Volition
- Preoccupation: Notes on Anne Boyer and Stephanie Young
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A Conversation with Brooks Johnson
[General]
Linh Dinh
Editor’s note: since this hand grenade of an interview was first detonated "behind enemy lines" at the Poetry Foundation, where it was quickly smothered by the continuous National Poetry Month posts, LT online is reposting it here as part of the general revival of May Day festivities in the U.S.
The Tragic Interchangeability of Nouns: Cyrus Console’s The Odicy and Ben Lerner’s Leaving the Atocha Station
[Books]
Ed Sugden
When Ron Silliman began the Alphabet with the truncated half sentence “If the function of writing is to 'express the world,' ” the implication was that poetry could, and, in so doing, be politically affirmative. Through exposing the ideological implications of a previously considered neutral poetic discourse, Language Poetry sought to create a newly utopian realm of creative articulation. Console and Lerner’s innovation is to dwell on the “If” of this sentence, and ultimately to conclude that the purpose of writing is not to “express” but rather to dwell on the time-lag between words written and the meaning they strive to embody. Their project cannot be said to be so baldly political, yet the critical edge of their language tends towards a similar political redemption.
The Double Dream of Reason: on Brent Cunningham's Journey to the Sun as satire
[Books]
Lauren Levin
The reframing here is about figuring aspects of reason – skepticism, the questioning process – as part of imagination. How can we use our reason, considering our tendency to ignite ourselves with it? Excessively, with absurdity – modestly, with humility – not for control, but for pleasure, and for political practice in imagining new futures. Learning to hear what’s silent and to read the unreadable. A subjectivity that isn’t about glory, a reason that isn’t about empire, a tender satire? Rewrite the journey, rewrite the child, rewrite the sun, rewrite the sum
Studies in Volition
[General]
Kataleipo
We adjust our eyes at the limit of translucence, in order to bring something into focus. An account would attempt to recollect the sequence--the question being: 'at which point did this occur?'; the inquiry being the procedure of causalities. Instead we hope this renders a perspectivation -- a constellation of moods and orientations, in other words, a topographical aggregation of intensitiesin Oakland on January 28th and the days that followed. We propose to study the de-synchronization of the city's cycles of desire, weaving together material practices of freedom. To consider the question of volition is to elaborate the subterranean rifts that will found the elements of a new sentimental education.
Preoccupation: Notes on Anne Boyer and Stephanie Young
[Books]
Lauren Levin
‘Empty’ space is crowded – with ideology, deference, hierarchy, and fear, as well as with love and perseverance. In that crowd, we’re searching for forms that allow action with others – forms that are self-reproducing, allow life-dense accrual, like a coral reef – but haven’t hardened into script.
Top 40 Countdown 2011: The Riot Girls
[Music]
jclo
Saluton! — and welcome to the year-end essay, capping the countdown of 2011's Top 40 songs from the Council on Five Paragraph Essays. The full list is at the bottom, but for the purposes of this summary, it's worth looking at the Top 12.
2011: The Riot Girls.
12) Till The World Ends, Britney Spears.
11) Bumpin Bumpin, Kreayshawn.
10) My Kinda Party, Jason Aldean.
9) Automatik, Livvi Franc.
8) You Lie, The Band Perry.
7) Cheers (Drink To That), Rihanna.
6) Blow, Ke$ha.
5) Storm Warning, Hunter Hayes.
4) Yoü and I, Lady GaGa.
3) Stay Away, Charli XCX.
2) We Found Love, Rihanna feat. Calvin Harris.
1) Gucci Gucci, Kreayshawn.
4 from Occupy: reports on Occupy Santa Cruz, Occupy Portland, Occupy Detroit, and Occupy Oakland
[General]
Pat Cabell, Bryan Coffelt, Benjamin Bourlier, and Casey McAlduff
Four takes on the movement
A Note from Oakland on the Events of 10/25
[General]
Gillian O. B. Hamel
Progressing into night, downtown Oakland took on a weak apocalyptic appearance.
A Report on Occupy Oakland: Part 2
[General]
Brian Ang
Tomorrow is the general strike and no one knows exactly what will happen. People will improvise consciously and instinctively.
Notes From an Occupied New York City, After October 14th
[General]
Josef Kaplan, Aaron Winslow, Erika Marquez
In Denver, Boston, Oakland, Kansas City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, elsewhere—each occupation has chosen struggle.
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