Notes from April 2025
 
1. Hugh Kenner on a poem's "effect"
2. Perloff's two traditions
3. Perloff: poem as "language construction"
4. "The Poetics of Indeterminacy"
5. Movement in Indeterminist poetry
6. Thomas Whately on ruins
7. Susan Stewart's "The Ruins Lesson"
8. Nazism and eroticism
9. Fascism and eroticism
10. The DOGE alliance
11. "Radical modernism"
12. Particularity and partiality in New American Poetry
13. The social dimension of language
14. The "psychic imperatives" of post-war poetry
15. "Newer" American Poets
16. Bernstein on political polling
17. Formal dynamics and their context
18. Erica Hunt's "The Politics of Poetic Form"
19. Against exposure
20. Susan Howe and the recorded voice
21. Bernstein on Goffman
22. Losing approaches to Pound's politics
23. Against reading for "symbol"
24. Perloff on Pound's "basic strategy"
25. Female poets influenced by Stein
26. Stein: "one does not use nouns"
27. Pleasure in poetic texture
28. Retallack on Cage
29. Cage on "the function of art"
30. Against "little epiphany poems"
31. Cage on language and process
32. The distance between lines in a renga
33. Cage on haiku
34. Retallack on "the great perennial question of poetics"
35. 1970s-2020s: Rise of China's manufacturing
36. Donella Meadows' "Leverage Points"
37. The Montreal Protocol
38. Stephen Rodefer's "Four Lectures"
39. On "free jazz"
40. Julius Hemphill’s "Dogon A.D."
41. Nathaniel Mackey on the Andoumboulou
42. "Militant Anti-Cinemas, Minor Cinemas, and the Anarchive Film"
43. On science and ideology
44. Sufficiency of money
45. HOPE TO DO SOME GOOD, NO MATTER HOW FUCKED UP YOU ARE
46. Gini coefficients
47. The "bancor"
48. 1694: Shift from feudal land power to bourgeois money power
49. Joan Retallack on "the paradox inherent in language"
50. Play and imagination
51. Retallack on play
52. Against "the fallacy of the referent"
53. Bernstein's politics
54. Against limits put on language
55. Retallack on P. Inman's "Ocker"
56. Poetry's "restorative and generative strangeness"
57. Retallack on Bruce Andrews' "Praxis"
58. Retallack on Douglas Messerli
59. Frédéric Coché's "L'Almageste"
60. Hannah Proctor's "Burnout"
61. Christina Sharpe, "Ordinary Notes"
62. Laura Cannell
63. Isaac Fellman's "Notes from a Regicide"
64. bpNichol's "Two Novels"
65. Bios Contrast
66. Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò's "Elite Capture"
67. "Bag culture"
68. Kristen Ross on "composition"
69. "Resistance" vs "defense"
70. Kristen Ross' "The Commune Form"
71. Capital vs. subsistence
72. The Witch Studies Reader
73. "Closing" controversies, in science studies
74. "Radical Science Journal"
75. Indication criteria
76. Diverging theories of tuberculosis
77. "What is it to differ?"
78. The biggest carbon-emitting sectors
79. The "monetary value of human civilization"
80. Sea level
81. Mondragón
82. Brian Massumi's "The Personality of Power"
83. Psychedelic Imaginaries
84. William Mevin Kelly's "Dunfords Travels Everywhere"
85. Leon Forrest's "Divine Days"
86. Defining apartheid
87. Is Israel committing apartheid?
88. "Race is a species of power"
89. Atef Abu Saif's "Don't Look Left"
90. Israel's targeting of journalists
91. Israel's targeting of medical facilities
92. Is Israel committing genocide?
93. Crimes committed by IDF
94. The First Amendment and academic freedom
95. Special legal protection for professors and its limitations
96. Professors vs universities
97. Professors at state universities vs other state employees
98. Moral judgments and objective reasons for action
99. Explanations for complex moral judgments
100. "Archaeobotany"
101. Cultivation vs the "Agricultural Revolution"
102. Flood-retreat farming
103. "Charters for the hatred of women"
104. Gendered knowledge of plants
105. Plant-based knowledge
106. Witchcraft and capitalism
107. Scientific innovation in prehistory
108. "Skull portraits"
109. "Damaged" by Ghost Dubs
110. White Poppy’s "Ataraxia"
111. Civilistjävel mixes
112. Post Moves, "Love’s Temporary Occurrence"
113. Science/Fiction: A Non-History of Plants
114. Equitable agricultural systems
115. Alternate centers of domestication
116. Californian rejection of farming
117. The "Columbian exchange"
118. David Graeber's "Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology"
119. The "ecology of freedom"
120. Nicholas Collins' Semi Conducting
121. Alfred Gell's "Wrapping in Images"
122. Cody Hudson, "Selected Universal Portals"
123. The "discursive shift" in art

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