When I moved over from blogger to WordPress, I lost track of a number of posts I had prepared — & just now, via a false maneuver, came acroos them as WordPress had imported them with everything else. Most of them are of course out of date & useless, but a few seem worthwhile posting. Here’s the first one of these: If Wim Wenders & his work always felt … Read more The Fassbinder Legacy
We (Nicole, Miles & I) will be in France for the coming week, essentially in Angoulême for a conference organized by IUFM Poitou-Charentes & the Université de Poitiers (see below for our contributions): L’art, l’éducation et le politique 25, 26, 27novembre 2009 Cité internationale de la bande dessinée et de l’image, Lycée de l’image et du son Conservatoire Gabriel Fauré Musée des Beaux-arts Théâtre d’Angoulême * * * Jeudi … Read more Angoulême Conference: L'art, l'éducation et le politique
Here are this week’s signandsight infos: From the Feuilletons Claude Lanzmann is in shock: cinema-goers in Hamburg who wanted to see his film “Why Israel”, were attacked by a mob to shouts of “Jewish pigs” – and no one paid any attention. Jonathan Littell sends a reportage from Chechnya, where reality is two bullets in the head. Last week’s interview with Imre Kertesz in Die Welt has sparked much … Read more Euro News via signandsight
One of France’s longest living literary magazines, la Quinzaine Littéraire — founded in March 1966 ago by Maurice Nadeau — has published its 1000th issue recently. Check out the magazine’s site, which offers access to many articles in pdf format. Below a video interview with Maurice Nadeau detailing the founding of the Quinzaine. Maurice Nadeau – “Comment a été créé la revue en mars 1966” from La Quinzaine littéraire … Read more 1000 Issues of the Quinzaine Littéraire
Last night the National Book Award for poetry went to: Keith Waldrop Transcendental Studies A Trilogy published by the University of California Press. Details here. Félicitations, Keith! Here, the opening three poems of the first sequence, Shipwreck in Haven: 1 Balancing. Austere. Life- less. I have tried to keep context from claiming you. Without doors. And there are windows. How far, how far into the desert have we come? … Read more National Book Award for poetry to Keith Waldrop
via the BBC — check full story here: Average global temperatures are on course to rise by up to 6C without urgent action to curb CO2 emissions, the lead author of a new analysis says. Emissions rose by 29% between 2000 and 2008, says the Global Carbon Project. All of that growth came in developing countries, but a quarter of it came through production of goods for consumption in … Read more Earth 'heading for 6C' of warming
Alerted to this by Mak Thwaite’s excellent ReadySteady blog, here are the opening paras of Hans Ulrich Obrist’s recent interview with Raoul Vaneigem. You can read the full text on the Interactvist site here. Conversation with Raoul Vaneigem Hans Ulrich Obrist Hans Ulrich Obrist: I just visited Edouard Glissant and Patrick Chamoiseau, who have written an appeal to Barack Obama. What would your appeal and/or advice be to Obama? … Read more Conversation with Raoul Vaneigem
Not sure if it is just a very succesful publisher’s stunt, but a few weeks before the publication of the English translation of Emmanuel Faye’s book on Heidegger as the ur-Nazi, “Heidegger: The Introduction of Nazism Into Philosophy,” the intellectually sophisticated media (from the The Chronicle of Higher Education to slate.com) have been wallowing in re-treaded Heidegger discussions. It truly is déjà-vu all over again, as the whole thing … Read more It's Heidegger déjà vu all over again
Miles Joris-Peyrafitte has a new band called St. Jacques. They’re just back from the studio where they recorded two songs they call “The Fear of Landing” — you can hear them here! * * * For the last 2 weeks or so I have been exchanging thoughts & emails with Tom Cheetham, the Corbin scholar, mainly on the concept of Ta’wil in poetics. Tom has now put a good … Read more Miles, Corbin, Kelly, Greenland, etcetera.
Here’s part one of a live 17 minute performance of sound poetry and music by Warren Burt given at SNO Contemporary Art Projects in Sydney on 7 November 2009. You can check out Part 2 here.