Notes from December 2024
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1. Anchor Stone Blocks
2. Reification
3. Benjamin's "phantasmagoria"
4. Time and the spectacle
5. Alexander Potebnya and poetic language
6. Watten on the Symbolists
7. The Symbolists and rhyme
8. The Futurists and poetic language
9. Velimir Khlebnikov
10. David Melnick's "Pcoet"
11. The Situationists and "real lived experience"
12. The Situationist definition of culture
13. John Hankiewicz's HOT HOUSE
14. Transrational (zaum) poetics
15. The phrasal unit and rhythmic balance
16. Perception of the economy
17. Engels on 'Social Murder'
18. Capitalism and the "distribution of suffering"
19. Johanna Hedva's "Sick Woman Theory'
20. The collective project of reorganizing the world
21. Poetry and the law
22. Sonya Huber's "Pain Woman Takes Your Keys"
23. Alison Kafer's "Feminist, Queer, Crip"
24. Esme Wang's "The Collected Schizophrenias"
25. Johanna Hedva's "How To Tell When We Will Die"
26. Robert Hershon, "Sentimental Moment"
27. "Lyric Postmodernisms"
28. Lisa Robertson, "Nilling"
29. Rita Dove, "Pithos"
30. Weaponized film criticism
31. "Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness"
32. Sickness and wellness
33. The politics of care
34. Dodie Bellamy's "When The Sick Rule The World"
35. "Asemic Walks"
36. "Abstract Film and Beyond"
37. “Conceptual wholes”
38. Levine’s project
39. Closure and ideological wholeness
40. Origins of the seminar
41. Curation and editorial work (in poetry)
42. Donald Hall
43. THIS journal
44. The audience for a diary
45. Is 1984 a critique?
46. An appreciation of Foucault's prose style
47. Opaque theory and writing for the future
48. Carrying on human heritage, for Orwell
49. The "inner structure of willing"
50. Merrill Gillfiland's "To Parlay"
51. Curation reading list
52. Warner on Adorno's "Minima Moralia"
53. Common sense vs intellectual writing
54. The history of critiques of common sense
55. Thoreau's distrust of common sense
56. "Radical critics of alienation" vs good writing?
57. Michelle Santiago Cortés's reading list for 2025
58. Christopher Michlig’s "File Under: Slime"
59. The Merry Pranksters' "Psychedelic Symphony"
60. Ramon Sender's "Four Sanskrit Hymns"
61. Terry Riley's "Concert for Two Pianos and Four Tape Recorders"
62. 1958: Pauline Oliveros / Terry Riley improvisations
63. 1952: Cage's theatrical pieces
64. 1959: Allan Kaprow's early Happenings
65. "Composition for Actors"
66. Moholy-Nagy's "theater of totality"
67. The films of John and James Whitney
68. Jorie Graham on experience
69. Jorie Graham on information vs knowledge
70. Poets recommended by Jorie Graham
71. Recommended readings for science writers
72. 1757: Burke's "delightful horror"
73. The "affective turn" in theorizing horror
74. Aisthanomai
75. Twitchell and formalist interpretations of horror
76. The Greeks and the vocabulary of fear
77. Brinkema on Todorov's "fantastic"
78. Richard Chartier's Best of 2024 list
79. claire rousay's Best of 2024 list
80. SABIWA, "Sons of _"
81. Conversational protocols
82. The "linguistic tracing of subjects"
83. Language as "collective relationship"
84. The "prosody of the citizen"
85. Speech and action
86. Ecology as a model of power
87. Maria Rosa Menocal's "Shards of Love"
88. Benveniste and the shifting social contexts of words
89. Civis and domus
90. Shayne Terry's "Leave: A Postpartum Account"
91. Joyelle McSweeney's "Death Styles"
92. Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra, Live At The Adler Planetarium
93. The "death of Hollywood's middle class"
94. Helen Scarsdale’s Best of 2024
95. Ivan Illich's "thresholds"
96. Gary Snyder on repetition and ritual
97. Rob Horning on generative AI

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