Samizdat Blog

This is great! I mean, you might not think so, on the surface of it. The event itself is one that may seem like a bit of a downer, or at l...

I know you've probably parked the VW microbus you were using to follow me on my world tour this fall, but hold off on fumigating the hip...

Park has some new notes on Adorno's Aesthetic Theory , including this interesting observation: Adorno seems to argue that art in genera...

So I'm back from Iceland, which I'm defining as "the country with the landscape that tries too hard" — as you drive around...

I'm in Iceland. Long story. But I'll be back soon. In the meantime, why not amuse yourself by translating Jónas Hallgrímsson, the...

Hey y'all (I'm trying to blend in with the good people of Oklahoma, so I hope you'll bear with my affected "y'all,...

You know, the last time I attached the phrase "part one" to a post, I never quite got around to creating a "part two," s...

Right then. Here at last is my first contribution to the ongoing project of blogging about Adorno's Aesthetic Theory with Mark Scroggi...

What's that you say? You can't make it down to Tulsa, Oklamoma next week to hear me talk about the New Criticism and read my poems ...

That's Avant-Post people, not to be confused with the post-avant. The latter is either a school of poetry or a hopelessly vague abstra...

So there I was, circa 1991, sitting with my fellow grad students around a certain self-styled radical feminist professor's dining room t...