February 2012
2 posts
More Beautiful, More Intense? HD's Poetics of...
“I will not reason and compare,” writes Blake; “my business is to create.” But poetry is a practice of comparison. That’s what I want to show today through a reading of H.D.’s first book, Sea Garden. Poetry is a practice of immanent measure. It is the creation of comparison. It constructs relations among relative intensities, it weighs these, and it manifests a decision between them. I want to say...
December 2011
1 post
In Search of Space
Matt Borruso, In Search of Space, cut paper collage, 2011
IN SEARCH OF SPACE
first we looked north
beneath the mountains, was there space?
was there space under the winter?
would the apparatus take the river?
all through the fall there had been camping
all through the autumn leaves were falling
all through the fall, sleeping among ourselves
all through the autumn we fed one another
...
November 2011
2 posts
Five Theses on Privatization and the UC Struggle
Nathan Brown, November 15, 2011, UC system-wide strike ———————————————————————————-
Hello Everyone!
It’s beautiful to see so many of you here today. On four day’s notice, this is an incredible turnout. Let’s remember how much we can do...
On the Night Before the Morning, All Power to the...
We live in a time when tents have become the singular weapon of the people which power cannot tolerate, and against which it does not know how to defend itself. The bureaucrats are in shambles; the “city” and its “police” are at each other’s throats; middling reformists have no idea where to position themselves. Everyone agrees: it’s about to explode.
This is the situation...
August 2011
2 posts
Origin and Extinction, Mourning and Melancholia
Complete piece, with images, on The Tree of Life and Melancholia.
Hiding Behind the Sun: Melancholia
KASSANDRA: look the cup of my pain is already poured out why did you bring me here was it for this was it for this was it for - Aiskhylos, Agamemnon, translated by Anne Carson *
In the Agamemnon...
July 2011
1 post
The Passion of Modernity: On Terrence Malick's The...
The true health of spirit consists in the perfection of reminiscence. - Arthur Schopenhauer
What is the vocation of cinema? To make visible, in time, that which is invisible outside of cinema. This is why it rains indoors in Tarkovsky films: the interior visibility, as image, of what had been invisible (memory, desire) insofar as it remained outside of cinema. Cinema makes visible, as...
April 2011
1 post
Reverse Ghost: On Annabelle (a film by Cynthia...
not the rain Of a nineteenth century day, but the motes In the air, the dust Here still. - George Oppen, Of Being Numerous
Annabelle is a ghost story that undergoes a reversal.
Someone dies. “He” dies.
A body collapses and another hears it fall.
She finds his body pressed against the inside of a shower door, so that to open this partition will be to let...
February 2011
1 post
Dear Maria Schneider
Dear Maria Schneider, I’m writing to you because of your hair. I’m writing to you because once you kneeled in the back seat of a car traveling away from your gaze and you traced rows of trees toward some zero vanishing, green leaves haloing your face in the counter-shot as your arms fell down to your sides and your mouth gathered your smile and your eyes grew serious. You were the...
September 2010
7 posts
