August 2011
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Spring and All (Facsimile Edition)
See this is the kind of thing I miss out on while living in Korea. I had no clue this was published.
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WCW Collected Poems One & Two
Spring and All is in the collection, William Carlos Williams: Collected Poems, Vol. One (1909-1939). (ISBN 9780811211871)
Both volumes are musts.
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dagNotes: From Politics to Poetics & Fictions
Okay, followers. Have to tell you something. I’m writing a dissertation. My mutualism, anarchism—beat on the capitalists, libertarians, objectivists posts will be taking the back seat now until next Spring.
Have to write and read. I’ll be using my Tumblr to share my mental work while writing.
September 1st has been my date to begin for almost a year now. I’ve patiently...
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Strip Naked For Your Poet
I agree. That’s the first edit I made in the quote. It’s long and wonderfully funny. His poetry strips the reader naked. I like it. But I wanted to get to his point about the looking forward and looking backward. I like his affection for the here and now.
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“If anything of moment results—so much the better. And so much the more...”
– William Carlos Williams slapping Wallace Stevens and his Noble ilk around in the introduction to his chaotic yet masterful dissertation in poetry and poetics, Spring and All.
Poetry rooted in moment. Doing what Holderlin said poets should do, exploring the difference between subject and...
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“The age demanded an image
Of its accelerated grimace,
Something for the modern...”
– Ezra Pound (from the long poem Hugh Selwyn Mauberly)
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hugh selwyn mauberley (book images) →
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hugh selwyn mauberley (pdf) →
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dagAlienRegistration
Just received my new Alien Registration Card.
I was E-2.
I’m now F-1. It’s valid for two years and automatically a multi-entry Visa now, too.
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Anyone got Hugh Kenner handy?
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dagSounds: The Plastics
プラスチックス
“Robot” (Welcome Back, aka Plastics because of the LP cover, 1981)
“Top Secret Man” (video from SCTV episode, from Welcome Plastics, 1979)
“Good” (Origato Plastico, 1980)
“Copy” (Welcome Plastics, 1979)
“I wanna be a Plastics” (Welcome Plastics, 1979)
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dagSounds: SPARKS
Halfnelson “Wondergirl” (Halfnelson released two LPs on Bearsville Records, Todd Rundgren’s label: Halfnelson, 1971, and A Woofer in Tweeter’s Clothing, 1972, before becoming Sparks. Both are great.)
My favorite Sparks LP is Kimono My House (1974). No surprise there, I guess. It’s one of the best albums of the 1970s. Here are the first three tracks:
“This...
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“The idea of revolution has perhaps still not been understood, inasmuch as it is...”
– Jean-Luc Nancy, The Inoperative Community
(so Buberian. so Marxist. so awesome.)
I always wanted to read Being Singular Plural. Guess I will now.
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Casa Costanera: hammarskjold: i can already tell... →
costapobre:
hammarskjold:
i can already tell how eurocentric this book is going to be because it said that individualism is a fundamental human urge.
there should be a drinking game for classes/teachers like this
one shot for:
“capitalism is natural in human beings”
“individualism is a fundamental…
sounds like you’re reading another book from Austria. Know what I mean?
...
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“Humanity became possible at the instant when, seized by an insurmountable...”
– Bataille (via grapesofmath)
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“Witness the panicky reactions of the big media which, from Time to the Cable...”
– “Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist manifesto for the Twenty-First Century?” - By Slavoj Zizek [Rethinking Marxism No. 3/4, 2001]
On “Seattle” and the anti-capitalist WTO protest movements.
(via marxandsparks)
Witness Zizek unable to conceptualise that parties,...
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pop music
sometimes she hangs up so fast she misses the little song i sing with her name in it about how much i love her and i don’t notice until i’ve finished.
songs of love go nowhere
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Q: But Why?
You ever have one of those moments where you’re overwhelmed by your emotions. You reflect about the anxiety, grief and discover it’s just not that significant?
I live in Seoul. I’m very happy. Writing. Reading. Working. Living. Happily.
But I’m easily distracted to obsession. It’s underwhelming to think about that great feeling of distance as the result of actual...
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Underwhelmances
I often feel far from everyone I know. Then
I realize I live 6,175 miles from them.
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The Evil in Me
When I see someone I hate succeed, not hate but who has been mean to me, for no reason, so a person I hold in contempt, I want to say, “Mark Tursi is a cunt.”
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Abecedarium Autobios
James Fenimore Cooper Elementary, Tulsa, OK (1976-1982)
Apples and hallways sleep. An American walker or class Born to slumber, we bumbled and tripped soft-lipped swift Creeks—our beds pressed dry into crumpled summer fans Doubting brothers pleat and pull in time on rain-worn Eaves peeled, lids and lips that sip dirt-dense water from Foolish pottery. Community class-rituals, us out back ...
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Cheap (Bird) Feeder
If they thought I was funny, did they have to say I was funny?
Laughed, rubbing: dark crickets lurk out my window, under living room couch.
In Tulsa, nine. One standing almost triumphant, hands on his hips,
affirming the affirmative. As if I had come to be, right there—
a spectacular me—openly, freely, in response to an incantation.
He paused, then fluttered—Magician- ...
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The Politics of Friendship
ghostorballoon:
““If ‘new’ always means, again and again, once again, anew, the appropriative drive, the repetition of the same drive to appropriate the other for oneself, the truth, being, the event, etc., what can still take place anew? Anew? What remains to come? And what will become of our just impatience to see the new coming, the new thoughts, the new thinkers, new justice, the revolution...
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“If ‘new’ always means, again and again, once again, anew, the appropriative...”
– Jacques Derrida (via ghostorballoon)
(via davidwpritchard)
I don’t have it, but I’d be interested in seeing the French word that has been translated as anew. Especially because the prefix a- in anew comes from a shortening of the Old English preposition meaning “on”. Anew...
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Ron Paul: Capitalist Cop
Me, too. But I think I understand why he has cache. Tell me what you think about this idea.
“all ideology hails or interpellates concrete individuals as concrete subjects”
I see Ron Paul as Althusser’s cop. I see the libertarians who support him as Althusser’s concrete individuals become concrete subjects responding to the call of ideology.
Capitalist society needs...
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Ron Paul's Racist. Now, let's get on with it.
I know, right?!
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On Ron Paul's fans and my posts on libertarianism
(edited and slightly revised @ 1405)
If you wish me to reply to your disagreements with my posts, you’ll have to provide some evidence that you’re in discourse with my arguments. You don’t like that I call you names? Tough. I don’t like Ron Paul. I think he’s a white power asshole. Prove to me you’re right and I’m wrong without simply writing RON PAUL...
hollovv-deactivated20120824 asked: Holy shit, where is that Wittgenstein quote from that you tacked onto that Walter Benjamin quote?? That's the best fragment I've ever seen from him.
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Ron Paul-isms: Liberty
Liberty, for Ron Paul, is a rhetorical tool.
An object.
Liberty reflects what the individual observing it sees as any thing, process, and/or state of being that makes one feel free of obligation, duty and responsibility—these three often being most responsible for citizens’ anxiety and dread in public.
Liberty is a rhetorical tool designed to make one think about freedom while being...
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“We are not cogs in a macroeconomic machine…”
– Ron Paul, in “Liberty Defined” (via brownboss)
Oh please. Ron Paul’s answer to everything is, in fact, Let The States Decide. In addition, he is your quintessential capitalist who trusts in the invisible hand of the market to guide your clueless ass through the macroeconomic machine. In that...
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“The city is the realization of the ancient dream of humanity, the labyrinth.”
– Walter Benjamin (1892-1940)
Ludwig Wittgenstein: “I once said, perhaps rightly: The earlier culture will become a heap of rubble and finally a heap of ashes, but spirits will hover over the ashes.” (Culture and Value)
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Tumblr Feminism
trolling. typing fuck, slut.
identifying as a woman.
typing women a lot. sometimes womyn.
reblogging. emphasizing. this-ing,
mine-ing,
more trolling.
sexualizing almost everything.
must-read feministing and
adore jessica valenti.
under 25. looking
for sexism in images,
textbooks, syllabi. completely
outward directed gaze.
other-ing. projecting.
establishment obsessed.
outsider...
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Erkin Koray * Erkin Koray * Erkin Koray
I’m gonna fix up a nice torrent with this guy’s discog on Demonoid. Tomorrow. Look for it.
Butthole Surfers ripped this one off and in a good way:
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Cornel West: Dr. King Weeps From His Grave... →
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Goodbyes
I just said goodbye to my students. I’ve been teaching since 1999, and have said goodbye to hundred and hundreds of students. I know university is much different from high school, but what’s up with how attached you become to high school students? I’m completely bummed out. It’s like I’m leaving my family.
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Haters: The Cherokee Nation
Spin it however you like, but one of the most important tribes expelling descendants of its slaves in order to cover-up its slaveholding past is hateful, harmful and, quite frankly, counter-intuitive.
White Power thrives even in the Cherokee Nation.
Arthur Rimbaud’s Brief Career : The New Yorker →
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