Friday, December 12, 2008



Ariana Page Russell earned her MFA in photography at University of Washington:


Patterns' Faction
(October 2005)



Index
(April 2005)



rrrr
(May 2005)


from her Artist's Statement:

"A body becomes an index of passing time. Skin reveals how bones shift, muscles loosen, freckles and wrinkles form, and bruises appear. I am interested in this as a fashion of skin, including the way a blush decorates one’s cheek, freckles form constellations on an arm, or hair creates sheen on skin’s matte surface. Skin also protects us while revealing internal emotions, offering a translucent space for adornment....I am investigating where one surface ends and another begins, the bloom of adornment, and how shifting exteriors reveal as they conceal."



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New Issue!

RECONFIGURATIONS: A Journal for Poetics & Poetry / Literature & Culture
Volume Two: Process




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New Issue!

The Home Video Review of Books
Includes this review of Anne Heide's Wiving






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“Violent Thoughts About Slavoj Žižek”

by

Simon Critchley


[at one point Critchley calls Žižek "the Slovenian Hamlet" -- good times!]




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For optimal aural enjoyment, put on headphones to experience the cacophony of:


Performed by Regina Beck, Sharon Mattlin, Peggy De Coursey, and Hannah Weiner.



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Dennis Cooper drops a ginormous post on the Oulipo.




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"Moriarty Sits Down With Spike Jonze For Huge Unfettered WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE Interview + Exclusive Debut Photos!!"
[@ A.I.C.N.]




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Tyson Grumm, like me and Jackson Pollock, is from Wyoming: