Notes from October 2024
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1. Delany on character
2. "Rhapsodic works"
3. "Centuries of Childhood"
4. Delany's "Letter to a Critic"
5. Delany on the reader's mind
6. Two-syllable meters
7. Poverty rates in the 2020s
8. On sherrifs
9. "Sacra"
10. Roman law's rights of possession
11. Churinga / tsurinja
12. Cultural subdivision
13. "Nostratic"
14. Negotiating contexts
15. Frederic Jameson on ideology
16. Hejinian on everyday life
17. Hejinian's radical allegory
18. Hejinian on meaning and its "discontinuity"
19. Hejinian's "digressive mode"
20. Angus Fletcher's critique of allegory
21. More on kairos
22. Jameson's "modern allegory"
23. The dialectical image and the thwarted utopia
24. Benjamin's "On the Theory of Knowledge, Theory of Progress"
25. Ernst Bloch on utopia
26. Maurice Blanchot's "Gaze of Orpheus"
27. Tone as "an organizing quality of feeling"
28. Melancholy collage
29. Trash in "The Rings of Saturn"
30. Fred Moten on "voice" and "sound"
31. Fred Moten on "university work and feeling"
32. Matthew Salesses' "Craft in the Real World"
33. Tone, for Matthew Salesses
34. Kafka and foreignness
35. "Lighting is a relationship"
36. Samatar and Zambreno on the "fantasy landscape"
37. "Ecopoetics is a border practice"
38. On the vignette
39. The size of Netflix’s streaming catalog
40. Ed Ruscha's preferences in abstraction
41. Kristeva on abjection and order
42. Acker, identity, and non-identity
43. The abject and the other
44. Abjection and boundaries
45. Sickness under capitalism
46. Jane Bennett's "Powers of the Hoard"
47. Susan Stewart and the collection under capitalism
48. Lauren Berlant on "Two Girls, Fat and Thin"
49. Masahisa Fukase's "Ravens"
50. "Humanimal"
51. The "archipelago of Human Otherness"
52. Quinn Slobodian's "Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right"
53. The growth of the NYT’s Games department
54. "Folklaw" among the Yoruba
55. Susan Howe’s “Telepathy of Archives”
56. Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke’s “The Occult Roots of Nazism”
57. More on Silliman's "Ketjak"
58. Michael McClure’s “Personal Universe Deck”
59. Anne Truitt
60. "Nuclear intermission"
61. The decline (and possible resurgence) of nuclear testing
62. The next nuclear arms race
63. "Door" by Ann Lauterbach
64. Borders as "colonial fiat"
65. Immigration and economic markers
66. Immigrants and the labor force
67. Intellect vs. intelligence
68. Intellectuals vs scholars
69. The attack on reality-based jobs
70. Aurelia Guo’s “World of Interiors”
71. Fanny Howe’s “Night Philosophy”
72. Goatseus Maximus
73. "Culture areas"
74. "Assembly: An Inventory of Images"
75. Culture as a structure of refusal
76. The art of two Pacific culture areas
77. Joy James, "In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love"
78. Joy James's "Resisting State Violence"
79. Wampum
80. Is fascism an ideology?
81. Slavery in indigenous North America
82. Breeding slaves vs raiding for slaves
83. Thomas P. Hughes' "Human-Built World"
84. Patterns, grids, and subdivisions
85. Poetry and the "keeping of time"
86. The origin of egalitarian politics
87. Rethinking fertility goddess figurines
88. Feminism in the Oz novels
89. Believers in primitive matriarchy
90. Marija Gimbutas and the origins of exploitation
91. The Inward Circles, Before We Lie Down in Darknesse
92. TV Carnage
93. Books on Ancient China
94. More books on Chinese history
95. Coal in Britain and China
96. Sofia Samatar's "Opacities"
97. Grifters and fanatics, fascism and genocide
98. Putting it all in vs leaving it all out
99. Works of "capacious inclusivity"
100. Olivia Sullivan
101. Franciska's "Modfase"
102. Clark Coolidge's "A Book Beginning What and Ending Away"
103. "All This Thinking: The Correspondence of Bernadette Mayer and Clark Coolidge"
104. L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E: The Complete Facsimile
105. "An Open Map: The Correspondence of Robert Duncan and Charles Olson"
106. Book-length poems
107. Wendy Lotterman
108. Barrett Watten's "Mode Z"
109. Accumulations of unrelated stuff
110. Charles Altieri on "the sense of a whole"
111. "Prosoid" poetry
112. Coolidge's "Weathers"
113. The "argument" of Coolidge's work

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