whip me such honest knaves

I have a new prose piece in the new issue of Ocho:

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"...the basic idea of Being and Time is extremely simple: being is time. That is, what it means for a human being to be is to exist temporally in the stretch between birth and death. Being is time and time is finite, it comes to an end with our death. Therefore, if we want to understand what it means to be an authentic human being, then it is essential that we constantly project our lives onto the horizon of our death, what Heidegger calls "being-towards-death"."

Simon Critchley on "Why Heidegger matters"
part I - part II - part III

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Gordon Lish on Bookworm

Part I (SUN DEC 12, 1993)

Zim Zum Part I: "Captain Fiction" talks abut the fiction he writes, the fiction he edits (at Alfred Knopf) and his career as a magazine...

Part II (MON DEC 20, 1993 12:00A)

The madman of contemporary fiction examines his influences: Beckett, Harold Bloom, Thomas Bernhart, J.D. Salinger, et al.

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Lipogram in E: Writing as a form of a workout is paradigmatic to Oulipian praxis.

Lipogram in I: Textual workouts are a fundamental concept of the French, rules-based art group that spawned the Ou-x-po’s.

Lipogram in O: The idea that writing can be an exercise is a central tenet held by the French art enterprise that practices rule-based writing.

"The Exercise and the Oulipo: 99 Variations on a Thesis"
by
Louis Bury

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Thanks to Shane for turning me on to the work of Ria Brodell who earned an MFA at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University, Boston, MA in 2006:

Self-portrait as Miami Vice Dude

A Picnic with Audrey Hepburn

He-Man is Introduced to G.I. Joe

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"Immerse yourself in the energetic, innovative and potentially illegal world of mash-up media with RiP: A remix manifesto":



[thanks Tim]

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New issue of The Chapbook Review

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Original "District 9" Short Film
directed by Neill Blomkamp

dualistic hierarchies

Terry Rodgers has worked and lived in Massachusetts, Washington, DC, and Ohio:

the design of graves and tombs

Carlo Ferraris was born in Italy, but lives and works in New York:

contributions to ontology

Benjamin Cottam -- from his Dead Artists series:

Man Ray

Kurt Schwitters

Diane Arbus

John Cage

fencing, jinx, omnibus

Dutch photographer Hendrik Kerstens

hydrangeas grow paperclips

Frank Gonzales is an American contemporary artist who "explains that his work is “process oriented” which means that the creative process remains open to possibilities from the beginning of a composition until the final brush stroke is applied.":

transalphabetic salvation

Victor Pivovarov is one of the founders of Moscow conceptualism:

happy, lucky, warmer climates

Todd Schorr lives and works in Los Angeles:

to reverse existing oppositions

The 2009 World Beard and Moustache Championships in Anchorage, Alaska:

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"It’s a fascinating book but it’s not me. It’s a magisterial piece of art-historical writing that circulates around elements of my interests and activities at a certain time."

"Always at the End: Artist, composer and filmmaker Tony Conrad in conversation"
by
David Grubbs

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Joanne Greenbaum lives and works in New York:

honeymoon forthcoming

For the next two weeks I'm going automated...mostly images...starting now...


Japanese artist Daishin Sumimoto:

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Born in the remote mountains of central Asia, Larisa Pilinsky grew up in Ukraine and studied art in Russia: