Notes from February 2025
1. Jim Goldberg's "Coming and Going"
2. Economic and political destabilization
3. Autocrats and market economies
4. The global economy since the 1980s
5. 1990s neoliberalism
6. Capitalsm vs democracy
7. Brian Judge's "Democracy in Default"
8. Subjectivity in "My Life"
9. Subjectivity is allegorical
10. "The excluded are within"
11. America and the other
12. The cultural presence of nationalism
13. Change, in Leslie Scalapino
14. The pleasure of seeing and the phenomenal field
15. Civilization and "the landscape"
16. Hejinian on "existing"
17. "True existence" vs "conventional existence"
18. Works of despair (and hope)
19. Suffering in Scalapino
20. "Continual conceptual rebellion"
21. Poe and "absorptive fiction"
22. Bernstein on "the addressee"
23. "If only the plot would leave people alone"
24. Perelman and "coherence"
25. Nicole Brossard's "A Book"
26. David Antin's talk poems
27. Is "meter" absorptive?
28. Rae Armantrout's "Mainstream Marginality"
29. Cecil Taylor as composer
30. Harry Lanz on language's "transparency effect"
31. Sigrid Burckhardt on words and their meanings
32. Poems as recognitions, or not
33. Official verse culture
34. "Song melos" vs "charm melos"
35. "Fabrication" by Imogen Reid
36. J. O. Morgan's "Pupa"
37. "The Authoritarian Personality"
38. Grant Morrison's "The Death Reaper"
39. Achille Mbembe's "On the Postcolony"
40. Upcoming releases from Blank Forms
41. Brendan Joyce's "Value Form"
42. Catherine Weiss' "Big Money Porno Mommy"
43. Jared Pappas-Kelley's "Stalking America"
44. Jared Pappas-Kelley's "Solvent Form: Art and Destruction"
45. The "readable"
46. Listening to poetry
47. Information in the poetry of Marianne Moore
48. Marianne Moore and the "multiplicity of things"
49. Marianne Moore's "Marriage"
50. Inadequate language
51. Early Frank Herbert
52. The "aesthetic register" and the pleasure in pattern
53. Nick Piombino; Nicole Brossard
54. The linguistic resistance to common values
55. High art and provincial culture
56. Inadequate language for art and its reception
57. Nicole Brossard on writing
58. Nicole Brossard on the body
59. Body, energy, and language
60. The patriarchal field of language
61. Reappropriating language
62. Research, intelligence, and pleasure
63. Wittig's "The Lesbian Body"
64. Nicole Brossard on prose
65. Andrea Long Chu on the “far center”
66. The word "as"
67. Systems, networks, coherence, unity
68. Mistakes of knowledge
69. Camus' abyss
70. "To live means to leave traces"
71. Hanne Darboven
72. Folk speech, pagan spells, and "beyonsense" language
73. Anti-absorptive traditions within twentieth-century poetry
74. Basil Bunting's "Briggflats"
75. "Imploded sentence" works
76. Peter Seaton
77. Steve McCaffery's "Panopticon"
78. The performance of nonabsorbable texts
79. “Competitive authoritarianism”
80. "All there has ever been is surface"
81. The "non-family anchored hero"
82. Genre as reading
83. Stability and complexity
84. The Koran as fragmentary song
85. The Koran as performance
86. Hypersignification / oversignification
87. Allegory and meaning
88. Hejinian on our current crises
89. Poetry and the social
90. David Buukck & Juliana Spahr's "Army of Lovers"
91. Lyrical confession vs formal complexity
92. Signifying and information
93. Fragmented units and syntactic turbulence
94. Inger Christensen, "To Go In"
95. Brecht's doubling of attention
96. "Distanced" theater
97. Eroticism and identity
98. Poetry and eroticism
99. Things that won't resolve
100. The utopian ecstatic
101. Inside ideology, but with a different perspective
102. Consciousness, experience, and poetry
103. Piombino's "combinatorials"
104. Nick Piombino and poetry's functions
105. Nick Piombino's "Boundary of Blur"
106. Stein, Creeley, and attention
107. Grenier's "Phantom Anthems"
108. Bernstein on Scalapino
109. Ronald Knox's "Enthusiasm"
110. Mystical reluctance
111. T K Oesterreich's "Possession, Demoniacal and Other"
112. The treatment of women's posession
113. Tarantism
114. Tungus shamanism
115. Shamanic seance
116. The global picture of altered consciousness
117. "Marriage" between humans and spirits
118. Indeterminate malaria
119. Barbara Tuchman's "The March of Folly"
120. Ecstasy and authority
121. The shaman's calling
122. Michel Leiris' work on possession
123. Possession and domestic conflict
124. Ichiro Hori's "Folk Religion in Japan"
125. Christianized slave cults and the gods of Africa
126. Trinidad's Shango cult
127. Voodoo and resistance
128. Voodoo syncretism
129. European shamans
130. The hypertextual poem
131. Poetry as "privacy overheard"
132. Poems as "invitation to subjectivity"
133. Not rhythm but thought
134. Language, incipience, and subjectivity
135. Art vs seriousness
136. Language and public life
137. "Affect"
138. Hejinian on happiness
139. Watten's "radical particularity"
140. "The device in the rug"
141. Morton Feldman's "Crippled Symmetry"
142. Hejinian on Watten
143. Randomness and readiness
144. Circular causal systems
145. G. Spencer-Brown's "Laws of Form"
146. Rene Thom's catastrophe theory
147. When is an aggregate a mind?
148. Cause and effect vs relational difference
149. Circuits and organisms
150. "Steady state"
151. The Batesonian "switch"
152. "Ontological choreography"
153. Pathology in medicine
154. Complaints as medical ontology
155. The meaning and definiton of disability
156. Foucault's escape from dominant modes of thinking
157. The knowledge in "practices"
158. "Disease is a process in time"
159. Enacting reality
160. Hannah Arendt on poetry and thought
161. Schiller's "the naive" and "the sentimental"
162. Louise Glück on the "hidden world"
163. Daisy Hay's "Young Romantics"
164. Revolution is religious, not political
165. McLane's recommendations, round one
166. Adam Phillips on adolescence
167. Maureen McLane on "corrupting the youth of America"
168. Shelley, poetry, and the imagination
169. McLane on Shelley's longer works
170. McLane's recommendations, round two
171. Lisa Robertson, "The Weather"
172. Olena Kalytiak Davis, "The Lyric 'I' Drives to Pick Up Her Children from School"
173. Éric Chevillard
174. Susan Howe, "Frame Structures"
175. Paul Virilio's "Bunker Archaeology"

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