Starting today, this website will become a weekly publication, instead of the near-daily publication it has been for the past three or so years. My hope is that this decision will help you to look forward to Wednesdays a little more. As you will see from today's offering, I intend to make the weekly posts gigantic feasts of content, which will give you the option of gorging or savoring.
Now, without further ado...
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Ben Aqua is based in Austin, Texas:
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"Space, with its extension; time, with the idea of before, now, after; quantity, mass, substantiality; number, equality and inequality; identity and difference; cause and effect; the ether, atoms, electrons, energy, life, death—all things that form the foundation of our so-called knowledge: these are the unknown things."
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Danish artist Asger Carlsen:
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Gary Dexter has a new spot called Alternative Reading, which he describes as "A blog about the odd literary productions of people famous for doing something else."
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Tommi Toija lives and works in Helsinki:
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Interpellation: When Louis Althusser seeks to describe how ideology actually works, he argues that we, as subjects, actually subject ourselves to the power of ideology. This is because we identify with subject positions or categories of identity which are predetermined within ideological frameworks.
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Westminster Abbey Bell Ringers
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Sarah A. King a freelance illustrator currently living and working in London:
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New entry in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy for Existentialist Aesthetics
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Val Britton lives and works in Berkeley, CA:
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The Free Music Archive has loads of interesting Experimental Music
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Leah Tinari lives and works in New York:
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To do or not to do: Gods, how to opt?
For who knows good from wrong, or wrong from good;
who'd follow forlorn lords, bow down to clods,
stoop to Sodom, boom songs of so long loss,
or dog coxcombs, hobnob to hollow loons;
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New York artist Uri Aran:
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"For me the most compelling question in English studies today is the tension between the figure of reading and the figure of writing, especially as it plays out in what David Downing calls managed disciplinarity, the disciplinary division of labor between writing and literature."
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"Krąg" (1978)
a short film by Jerzy Kucia
a short film by Jerzy Kucia
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"Selected by the Guardian's Review team and a panel of expert judges, this list includes only novels – no memoirs, no short stories, no long poems – from any decade and in any language. Originally published in thematic supplements – love, crime, comedy, family and self, state of the nation, science fiction and fantasy, war and travel – they appear here for the first time in a single list."
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New York artist John-Finneran:
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"Can this be the present task of theory, to grasp the creative moment of difference, of ontological diversity itself? A leap of empathy, you might say, a recklessness with all we know and are. A way of grasping the moment out of time, the kairos of aesthetic globalization. That may be too much to ask."
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Biz Markie Performing "Bennie and the Jets" on The Chris Rock Show
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"McCarthy has given new shades to the English language, and that should be enough. Were he a painter or a composer, or perhaps even a poet, it probably would be, but Cormac McCarthy is a fiction writer, and fiction is generally construed to carry burdens above and beyond anything so frivolous as mere style. Stories must mean something. They must appear to argue for or against moral systems—or at least interrogate them. They must be a little less inconstant than dreams."
"Cormac McCarthy’s Paradox of Choice: One Writer, Ten Novels, and a Career-Long Obsession"
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Scott Esposito
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Scott Esposito
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Turkish artist Pinar Yolacan:
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Anne Sexton: “Language has nothing to do with rational thought. I think that’s why I get so horribly furious and disturbed with rational thought. Language is the opposite of the way a machine works. Language is poetry, maybe? But not all language is poetry. Nor is all poetry language….Who, me? Sailing around like crazy in LANGUAGE whatever it is and then brought up short by reality (what is it, really?)…”
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New book from The Cupboard!!!
Acts of Kindness and Excellence in Times Tables
by Caia Hagel
44 pages. Tape-bound.
$5.00
[order it here]
Acts of Kindness and Excellence in Times Tables
by Caia Hagel
44 pages. Tape-bound.
$5.00
[order it here]
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Kate Mitchell: I am not a Joke (2008)
