Swedish artist Beata Boucht:

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Listen to Alain Robbe-Grillet read from Jealousy

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Check out the online I Ching

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British photographer Alan Clarke:

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"The Obama Code"

by

George Lakoff

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Experience a Dreamachine

(Please note: This can cause Photosensitive epilepsy in some people, depending on the frequency chosen.)

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Chelsea Martin reading "McDonald's is Impossible" from her upcoming poetry collection Everything Was Fine Until Whatever:

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People Like Us aka Vicki Bennett remixes Elizabeth Alexander's inaugural poem

Greek artist Alexandros Vasmoulakis:

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New Issue of KRITIKE (VOLUME TWO NUMBER TWO)

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David Byrne & Dizzee Rascal - "Toe Jam"

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"Winston Smith is 39"

by

James Warner

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Watch Ron Silliman read from The Alphabet

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"Noise, sound, or poetry?"

By

John TerMaat

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Check out The Project for Innovative Poetry, created by Douglas Messerli (Publisher, Green Integer)

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MAC Hello Kitty Collection Ad

[can't seem to find info about who directed it]

Andy Julia lives and works as a freelance photographer in Paris:

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Society For Critical Exchange interviews Marjorie Perloff to get her thoughts on Elizabeth Alexander's innaugural poem -- spoiler alert, she wasn't a fan:

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Kid Cudi - "Day 'n' Nite"

directed by So-Me

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Patricia Waller lives and works in Berlin, Germany:

Accident 2

Salome

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Chairlift "Evident Utensil"

directed by Ray Tintori

If you happen to be in London, you should go check out the October Gallery, currently showcasing "the first UK showing of Brion Gysin's rarely-seen painting, the 16.4 metre-long Calligraffiti of Fire, his magnum opus and final work:

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Why Damien Hirst needs to get a grip.

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"Žižek's Lacan: What is Truth?"

by

Gopal Balakrishnan

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Keiji Haino Live Excerpt I, Drake Hotel, Toronto, 2005

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THE STUCKISTS manifesto

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Pride and Predator to give Jane Austen an extreme makeover

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HOWL (For Lindsay Lohan)

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"My Idiosyncratic Reasons for Using Just Intonation"

By

Kyle Gann

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UC Berkeley's Raphael Bousso presents a friendly introduction to the ideas behind the holographic principle, which may be very important in the hunt for a theory of quantum gravity:

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"Back to the Futurists"

by

Lawrence Pollard

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John Zorn - Mike Patton - Ikue Mori "Hemophiliac"
excerpt from "@:?:@" / 50th Birthday Celebration Vol.6 / Tzadik, 2003

Joachim Knill's most recent work consists of 20"x30' Polaroid photographs which he creates with the world's largest portable instant film camera designed and built by himself:

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"The Cuteness of the Avant-Garde"

by

Sianne Ngai


[from Critical Inquiry 31 (Summer 2005)]

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New e-book at Lamination Colony

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No Trivia has been running a month-long essay series on J Dilla's instrumental hip hop masterpiece Donuts, an album everyone should check out - especially those of you who like things that are awesome.

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Oren Lavie - "Her Morning Elegance"

Directed by: Oren Lavie, Yuval & Merav Nathan

Digital creations by Lorna Freytag:

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Lectures by Gilles Deleuze - translated into English

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"From p. 143 of the stimulus bill, which the U.S. Congress passed yesterday: "$50,000,000, to be distributed in direct grants to fund arts projects and activities which preserve jobs in the non-profit arts sector threatened by declines in philanthropic and other support during the current economic downturn." An attempt by Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma to eliminate all arts and museum funding from the bill was defeated."

[thanks to Alex Ross]

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Monsters of Oak Mountain:

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"Worldmaker: Remembering Thomas Disch"

by

John Crowley

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"The Daughters of the Moon"

by

Italo Calvino

(this is from the most recent issue of New Yorker, but I'm wondering if it's just a new translation of a story with a similar title in Cosmicomics? -- speaking of Cosmicomics, if you'd like to listen to Salmon Rushdie talk about that book, click here.)

Amazing artwrok from Marc Ngui:

"These drawings are a methodical interpretation of the first two chapters of A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schzophrenia by Gilles Delueze and Felix Guattari."

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"A DEVIL WHO WRITES TO BE LIVED: CREATIVE PERCEPTION AS EXISTENTIAL ENDURANCE--A READING OF KAFKA’S PARADOXICAL PARABLES"

by

Chuck Richardson




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Music video for Low's "Breaker"

directed by Marc Gartman






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"The Post-Futurist Manifesto"

by

Franco Berardi



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Music video for Blitzen Trapper's "Furr"

directed by Jade Harris






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Nigel Warburton reads from his book Philosophy: The Classics



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Radiohead at the Grammys

California-based artist Ben Weiner:

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Ethan Hayes-Chute was born in 1982 and grew up in Freeport, Maine. He has a BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design:

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Beijing-based artist Yue Minjun:

Prog Rock Britannia: An Observation in Three Movements

"New BBC documentary about progressive music and the generation of bands that were involved..."

part one




part two




part three

image by David Baldinger

I am a few days late in wishing happy birthday to DADA, but missing the exact date kinda seems appropriate...

"DADA was born on the 8th of February, 1916, at a Café in Zurich by the slippery hand of Tristan Tzara, despite any malicious claims to the contrary made by the intelligent but foul-smelling André Breton, that green-eyed Pope of Surrealism, which, incidentally, is very much NOT DADA, especially in that it advocated descending into the streets with a revolver in each hand and shooting people at random."

- from "Tristan Tzara's Eighth Symphony: or How Dada came to me in the form of this self-contained manifesto"

[read more Tzara here]

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Ohio artist SpaceSick reimagines movie posters:

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"Kunstbar"

created by The Petrie Lounge

The new installment of The Cupboard is now available. You should probably get a subscription.

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The literary journal Like Water Burning is looking for critical perspectives on Steve Erickson for their next issue.

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Here is an amazing resource for free underground hip hop albums.

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Doseone tells the history of Anticon @ Knitting Factory

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"Oscar Wilde's Faithless Christianity"

by

Simon Critchley

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Work from French artist Anouck Durand's "Ophelia" project:

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The 100 Most Beautiful Words in English

1. adroit: dexterous, agile
2. adumbrate: to very gently suggest
3. aestivate: to summer, to spend the summer
4. ailurophile: a cat-lover
5. beatific: befitting an angel or saint
6. beleaguer: to exhaust with attacks
7. blandiloquent: beautiful & flattering
8. caliginous: dark & misty
9. champagne: an effervescent wine
10. chatoyant: like a cat’s eye

[click here for #11-100]

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The Bone Room

"In short, it is perfectly legal to posses and sell human bones in the United States. There are a few exceptions and adendums to this including a few states where import and export has been banned, and of course, that only certain human bones from particular places can be bought & sold legally."

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Canadian artist Yuka Yamaguchi:

Yesterday I watched Kill Your Idols, Scott Crary's documentary on the No Wave music scene of the late 70s-early 80s. Not an especially excellent film qua film, but I enjoyed viewing it because it introduced me to a bunch of music I'd never listened to before. Most interestingly: DNA, Theoretical Girls, and Teenage Jesus and the Jerks.

I found a great site offering free downloads of many of these No Wave albums.

& here are a few other great sites hosting free albums of the experimental sort (not just No Wave - all breeds of craziness):

Punk Not Profit

Roots and Traces

Orexis of Death

Continuo

Zero G Sound

BABE (B) LOGUE

Sickness Abounds

Mutant Sounds

Minimal Land

Killed in Cars

Experimental Etc.

Terror Noise Audio

Post-Paranoia

Deleted Scenes, Forgotten Dreams



"I can do whatever I want with music."

Shane Jones's Light Boxes is now available for your reading pleasure.

I share my thoughts about it here.

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Speaking of books available for your reading pleasure, might I also recommend these two new poetry titles:

The Viral Lease by Mathias Svalina

The Match Array by Heather Green

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Speaking of rad poetry, be sure to check out the introduction to Adam Robinson's upcoming book of poems.

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Charles Bernstein, 60-second lecture on what makes a poem a poem:

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"Supernatural Horror in Literature"

essay by

H.P. Lovecraft

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One More Time:
The Britney Symposium

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"Blank Manifesto"

a project by

Jens Kuestner, John Maguire and Thomas Mccaldon

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Illustrator Christoph Niemann:

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Blake Butler reads (or is it the character in the book who is reading?) an excerpt from Ever at Apostrophe Cast. Very cool. Very creepy.

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French photographer Valerie Hersleven :