Saturday, June 12, 2010

Did he forget to read the sign?

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Friday, June 11, 2010

Research in the Humanities: Intellectually Central, Economically Essential, and Probably Doomed

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Research in the humanities is, we are told, is in peril. One group of handwringers glances at a set of data about whose work gets cited in ...
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Friday, June 04, 2010

Of Schlubs and Tweedy Motherf*ckers: How Profs Dress

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It’s been a while since I heard from the jittery fiend who calls himself Raskolnikov P. Firefly, a former colleague of mine long since gone ...
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Monday, May 24, 2010

Archambeau World Tour, June 2010 Update

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You're probably exhausted from following the Archambeau World Tour 2010 motorcade, which has already ranged all the way from, well, uh, ...
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Sunday, May 23, 2010

Democratic Consumption, Servile Production: On Anish Kapoor's Cloud Gate

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Anish Kapoor's "Cloud Gate" is, to my mind, the most successful piece of public art in all of Chicago. It is also more repr...
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Saturday, May 22, 2010

Savage Aesthetics: Coherence and Ethics Then and Now

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I can’t decide whether it’s David Shields’ courage I admire, or that of his publisher. You know Shields, I think, at least by reputation: a...
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Friday, May 14, 2010

Poetry and the Challenge to the Public Sphere

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A few years ago I wrote an article that said (along with some things about Surrealism and Aestheticism) that the more extravagant claims for...
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Monday, May 10, 2010

Cambridge Poetry and Political Ambition

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Back in the summer of 2008 I spoke at the Sorbonne about the poetry associated with Cambridge and J.H. Prynne, and tried to understand what ...
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Tuesday, May 04, 2010

Because You Love Poetry More Than You Love Your Mother: Don Share and I Read on May 9th at Myopic Books

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The redoubtable Don Share and I will be reading this Sunday (that's right: Mothers' Day) at Myopic Books in Chicago (1564 North Mil...