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A Dose of Pastiche
Donna Hardway [sic]“Marx’s Eschatology”Telos No. 50 Winter 1981-82 Marx wasn’t interested in economics. However, in his day, you couldn’t get anything published on the subject he was really interested in — sex. […] Freud wasn’t interested in sex. […] It’s … Continue reading
Transmutations
bpNicol Preservation of 1984 First Screening: Computer Poems THIS POEM SAT DOWN TO WRITE YOU http://www.vispo.com/bp/index.htm And so for day 303604.04.2015
Mirrors, Weapons, and the Search for Authentic Connected Self
Saeed Jones How We Fight for Our Lives An arc of narrative thematizing mirrors & weapons: But now, pressing myself into the bed’s many pillows, I felt my body and realized that my body could be a passport or a … Continue reading
sometimes a mirror: the fog of breath
About the Cameron Jamie show at the Gladstone in Brussels Jamie is presenting what the enterprise is terming a “rogues’ gallery of ceramic masks.” Some are faced away from the viewer, a signature move that the artist seems to use … Continue reading
Reflecting
Rebecca Belmore and Osvaldo Yero Hart House Centennial Commission waabidiziiyan doopwining (to see yourself at the table) The reflective surface is the size of the tables in the Great Hall. Hung at the same height as the portraits that line … Continue reading
Mirror Poems
Linda Bierds “Bone Cockerel: Norman Cross Prisoner-of-War Camp, England” The Hardy Tree In Michael Ondaatje’s The Collected Works of Billy the Kid there is one poem in a style developed by Ondaatje as he says in the Afterword to the … Continue reading
Captivated
Linda Bierds “The Bird Trap” The Hardy Tree A poem in part an ekphrasis on a painting by Pieter Brueghel the Younger And under their laughter and guttural chirrups lies nothing but the scrape of skates and the dull chatter … Continue reading
the impossibility of an ending never begun
We shall never again inhabit that fantasy of ourselves that never was, for now we know it to have been a fantasy. Dana Seitler “Write, Paint, Dance, Sex Queer Styles/American Fictions” in After Queer Studies: Literature, Theory and Sexuality in … Continue reading
Material for Dreams and Forms of Transformation
Karla Jay in her study of the works of Natalie Clifford Barney and Renée Vivien (The Amazon and the Page) reflects upon the imaginative space opened up by hybrid forms. By locating her lovers in the magic world of the … Continue reading
Sounds like Simian
Eugene Fiume “Going Digital is Going Human” IDE&AS Volume 4, Number 2 Simulation comes easily to us. We are wired to simulate. Recent discoveries in neuroscience suggest that we have “mirror neurons” that, among other things, help us to understand … Continue reading