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Three Assumptions
little lessons … These days, those phones in our pockets are changing our minds and hearts because they offer us three gratifying fantasies. One, that we can put our attention wherever we want it to be; two, that we will … Continue reading
Scaffolding Conversation
[An off-list epistle (or a short note) about an objection to a move in post on Humanist] Dear X It may be viewed as a bit of stretch to go from Eskelinen to Barthes. I could have occluded the writing/reading … Continue reading
Words in the Weeds
A whiff … As a beautiful flower that is full of hue but lacks fragrance, even so fruitless is the well-spoken word of one who does not practice it. from The Dharmapada in Walpola Rahula What the Buddha Taught A … Continue reading
Scrap and Scrape
Dominique Scarfone The Time Before Us https://talksonpsychoanalysis.podbean.com The “true past”, indeed, is not a “scrapbook,” let alone a “scrapyard,” but a most precious possession; it is not something dead and useless, but a treasure of references that nourish the present … Continue reading
It Times Take – a Turn
Sara Ahmed Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others The sentence arrests: It times take, but this work of inhabitance does take place. [p. 11] It evokes a double take because of the interference of the idiomatic “it takes time”. But if … Continue reading
All Around Us
I cannot celebrate enough Jane Byers impeccable justesse in the endings to the poems in the Keen sequence in Acquired Community. Look at how poignant and yet defiant the ending of the last poem in the sequence, “Elegy”, is But … Continue reading
Post Precariat
A World Without Work from The Atlantic Derek Thompson draws on Benjamin Hunnicutt. The post-work proponents acknowledge that, even in the best post-work scenarios, pride and jealousy will persevere, because reputation will always be scarce, even in an economy of … Continue reading
Tender Comrades
Lane Reylea “Dear Radical Artist (Unforgettable You) in in Blast Counterblast ed by Anthony Elms and Steve Reinke (Toronto: Mercer Union, 2011) Flexibility, mobility, transience and dialogue — these are no longer challenges to the system, they are the very … Continue reading
Blurb Encounters
On the back of the chapbook and framed by a double line rectangle are the following words Starting with the premise “There are two kinds of people,” Susan Holbrook drives supermarket existentialism through its own vortex and gives it a … Continue reading
Furnished
Phil Hall in “The Chase” in Conjugation (Book Thug 2016) provides an infinitive that may mistakenly be read as an imperative. To not let poetry be furniture Which the Magic 8 folks at CBC read as a rallying cry. Less … Continue reading