Re: hearing me out
this is so cool! At 10:46 PM -0500 5/8/07, mIEKAL aND wrote: FORMICA ELLIPSIS the ants, the ants, the ants http://driftlessmedia.com/mp3s/formica_ellipsis.mp3http://driftlessmedia.com/mp3s/formica_ellipsis.mp3 SUNSPOT ROBOT Sunspots have been more common in the past seven decades than at any time in the last 8,000 years, according to a new historic reconstruction of solar activity. http://driftlessmedia.com/mp3s/sunspot_robot.mp3http://driftlessmedia.com/mp3s/sunspot_robot.mp3
2 POETICS EVENTS IN TWIN CITIES!!! today!!!
From: Walter Lew [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Walter K. Lew Lecture Friday and Reading Saturday in Minneapolis To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For those of you in the Twin Cities area, a last-minute notice of a talk and reading I'm giving: Meaning's Many-Patterned Movement: What the Long History of Korean Intermedia Texts Can Offer Us as New Artists Korean studies scholar and poet Walter K. Lew will present different examples from the long history of Korean texts that combine language, icons and other imagery, and sometimes performance. These range from 7th-century Buddhist dharani and the 15th-century development of a new Korean orthography (actually, orthophony) to multimedia performances during the Japanese colonial era and the avant-garde poetries of Yi Sang (1910-1937) and Yi Won (b. 1968). Time permitting, he will suggest ways in which they can serve as models for new work in the present. Lew teaches in the English Dept. of the U. of Miami in Coral Gables, FL. WHEN: Friday. April 13 at 3 p.m. WHERE: Minnesota Population Center Seminar room Lower Level, 50 Willey Hall University of Minnesota, West Bank CONTACT: Karen Kinoshita University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts Institute for Advanced Study 612.626.5054 or 612.626.5028 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ias.umn.edu/ SPONSORS: The Institute for Advanced Study and Dept. of English of the University of Minnesota Lew will also give a brief reading the following evening, Sat., April 14, as part of the opening ceremony for an exhibit on the Korean War titled Still Present Pasts at Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis (2822 Lyndale Avenue South / phone: 612.871.).
for dylan, parody and palindrome fans, a triple bill
apologies for x-posting http://www.adamkotsko.com/weblog/2007/03/i-palindrome-i.html
Re: The secret to being in the snow
snow-flake/flow-snake: know to a like At 8:06 AM -0600 3/16/07, Halvard Johnson wrote: Is to throw your snowball at the future and miss On Mar 16, 2007, at 12:58 AM, P!^VP 0!Z!^VP wrote: Is to throw yourself at the future and miss. P!^VP
art as knowing
for twin citians and environs, a conference march 23-24, including the kamau brathwaite reading recently announced: http://artasknowing.umn.edu/
Re: Weary Wordz
wow this is great! On 13 Mar 2007, Obododimma Oha wrote: Saw wordz crawlin thru da wayas Da skreen tastid twistid n reacht Da limit ev igzausshn Saw wordz failin At the zero moment ev Zen Wordz weary worn At di end ev da beginin -- Obododimma Oha. ** Obododimma Oha PhD (Stylistics/War Rhetoric) MSc (Legal, Criminological, Security Psychology) Senior Lecturer in Stylistics, Semiotics, Discourse Analysis Department of English, University of Ibadan Fellow, Centre for Peace Conflict Studies University of Ibadan, NIGERIA - Bored stiff? Loosen up... Download and play hundreds of games for free on Yahoo! Games.
KAMAU BRATHWIATE MPLS VISIT
Dear All The English Department (UMN) and the IAS's Art as Knowing Collaborative are sponsoring a reading by KAMAU BRATHWAITE at the Loft, 1011 Washington Avenue South, Minneapolis, March 23, 7 pm. Those of you who saw his 1997 performance at the Cross-Cultural Poetics conference know what an astonishing experience it is to see him perform.
Xcp: Cross-Cultural Poetics
apologies for x-posting: NEW XCP: CROSS CULTURAL POETICS BACK ISSUE SALE XCP: CROSS CULTURAL POETICS no. 17 (Public Language Dreamstories) has just been released. The issue includes new essays by Michael Davidson, Roger Farr (on Dorothy Trujillo Lusk), Katherine McKittrick (author of Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle, University of Minnesota Press); new writing by Nourbèse Philip, Kamau Brathwaite, Fred Wah, and Opal Palmer Adisa; and reviews of new books by Michael Parenti, Retort, Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Lauri Ramey, others. FOUR ISSUE/TWO YEAR subscriptions are available to individuals at the rate of $30 (checks payable to College of St. Catherine). Please inquire about institutional rates. XCP: CROSS CULTURAL POETICS is also selling back issues (while supplies last) from now through May 1, 2007, at the rate of $3 per issue. A complete list of back issues (no. 1-14) is available on our website, http://www.xcp.bfn.org/journal.html . This offer does not include our special double issue (The Dictionary Issue), no. 15/16, which is available for $12. Special bulk rates can also be arranged for people interested in teaching back issues. FORTHCOMING THIS SPRING in XCP: CROSS CULTURAL POETICS no. 18 is new writing by Adrienne Rich, Amiri Baraka, Barbara Jane Reyes, Rodrigo Toscano, Jaswinder Bolina, Patricia Smith, Duriel Harris, a review-essay on new South African poetry, an essay on the workers' movement in Argentina, and much more. Send checks (payable to College of St. Catherine) to Mark Nowak, ed., XCP: CROSS CULTURAL POETICS, c/o College of St. Catherine, 601 25th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN, 55454.
Re: Fwd: Beware of yourselves! Beware of each other!
plato basically says the same thing in The Republic, but there's enough mitigating evidence to suggest that he only half-meant it. There is probably plenty of counter-evidence in the Koran as well, not least of which is the poetic language in which it's written. At 7:47 AM -0600 2/19/07, mIEKAL aND wrote: Just as I suspected... Begin forwarded message: From: Nicholas Karavatos mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: February 19, 2007 1:41:18 AM CST To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Beware of yourselves! Beware of each other! Reply-To: UB Poetics discussion group mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] Stay away from poets. The erring follow them. Qur'an 26:224 (Pickthal) And the Poets, - It is those straying in Evil, who follow them: Qur'an 26:224 (Yusuf Ali) And as to the poets, those who go astray follow them. Qur'an 26:224 (Shakir) As for the poets, they are followed only by the strayers. Qur'an 26:224 (Khalifa) WaalshshuAAarao yattabiAAuhumu alghawoona
Re: lost works do what you like and other works
what was the title? i'll take a look. how frustrating. At 9:28 AM -0800 2/12/07, ishaq arashi wrote: peace, i am writing in reference to a short writ entitled do what you like a story about the killing of a girl in my town set the music of blind faith. i was wonder is you still have a copy of the story since i was the subject a hate crime which presented itself in the form of a break in into my flat and my computer, which contained my writing, was stolen along with my prayer mat. i am currently attempting to retrieve some of my lost writings you assistance would be much appreciated kh sincerely l y braithwaite http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Ytzhak_Braithwaite http://www.sidebrow.net/2006/a047braithwaite.php
Re: lost works do what you like and other works
oops just noticed that's the first thing yoy said. can't find it in my files... At 9:28 AM -0800 2/12/07, ishaq arashi wrote: peace, i am writing in reference to a short writ entitled do what you like a story about the killing of a girl in my town set the music of blind faith. i was wonder is you still have a copy of the story since i was the subject a hate crime which presented itself in the form of a break in into my flat and my computer, which contained my writing, was stolen along with my prayer mat. i am currently attempting to retrieve some of my lost writings you assistance would be much appreciated kh sincerely l y braithwaite http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Ytzhak_Braithwaite http://www.sidebrow.net/2006/a047braithwaite.php
Re: Alan Sondheim and Gertrude Stein
Let me chime in and say ALL HAIL TO THE CHIEF OF CODEWORK!!! All praise to the Emperor of Cybermind! all kudos to the Zenith of Wryting! All congratulations to the King of Bandwidth! all happiness and longevity to the Dear Leader of Internet Artistry! All magnificence to the Lord of E-Poetics! Have a wonderful day!!! At 10:40 AM -0700 2/3/07, Sheila Murphy wrote: Great combination! Happy birthday, Alan, my friend. I wish you many happy returns. You are GREAT! Warm wishes from the Southwest, Sheila E of Maricopa County
Re: A.N.A.R.E. Telegraphic code
having just watched genet's un chant d'amour on ubuweb and rereading Miracle of the Rose for the first time in ages writing on (prison) walls has a special and beautiful meaning right now... mIEKAL aND wrote: My four words have always been ice | death | light | wealth which many many years ago I wrote on my wall with a pencil. ~mIEKAL On Jan 19, 2007, at 11:24 AM, Alan Sondheim wrote: Actually you could use two words, zero/one - Alan, remembering Borges On Fri, 19 Jan 2007, mIEKAL aND wrote: On Jan 19, 2007, at 10:13 AM, phanero wrote: i wish i understood the context that compresses the difference between Sea Leopards and Tussock grass to WUYLJ to WUYMK. in my everyday life, it seems like i could live or describe every day by only using about 4 words with some system like this. what 4 words would that be?
[Fwd: Assassination of Hrank Dink]
---BeginMessage--- For those of you who follow the debate on the Armenian Genocide, Turkish law 301 which makes it a crime to use the G word and defame the Turkish Republic, Hrank Dink, Armenian-Turkish editor of Argos was assassinated this morning in Istanbul. We have direct connections with his group as Taner Akcam, the leading Turkish historian who confirms the events of 1915 as Genocide is on our staff. This is from New Anatolian but you can find a lot more on the web: Prominent Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink murdered (AP) 19 January 2007 Journalist Hrant Dink, one of the most prominent voices of Turkey's Armenian community, was killed by a gunman Friday at the entrance to his newspaper's offices, police said. Dink, a 53-year-old Turkish citizen of Armenian descent, had gone on trial numerous times for speaking out about the mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Empire at the beginning of the 20th century. He had received threats from ultra-nationalists, who viewed him as a traitor. Dink was a public figure in Turkey, and as the editor of the bilingual Turkish-Armenian newspaper Agos, one of its most prominent Armenian voices. In his last column for Agos, Dink complained that he had become famous as an enemy of Turks and wrote of threats against him. He said he had received no protection from authorities despite his complaints. My computer's memory is loaded with sentences full of hatred and threats, Dink wrote. I am just like a pigeon ... I look around to my left and right, in front and behind me as much as it does. My head is just as active. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in a news conference after the killing, vowed to catch those responsible and called the slaying an attack on Turkey's unity. Erdogan said he had appointed top officials from the justice and security ministries to investigate the killing, and that two suspects had been arrested in Istanbul. He gave no details on the suspects. Hrant's body is lying on the ground as if those bullets were fired at Turkey, Can Dundar, also a journalist, told private NTV television. Turkey's relationship with its Armenian community is fraught with tension, controversy and painful memories of a brutal past. Much of Turkey's once-sizeable Armenian population was driven out beginning around 1915. During World War I, as the Ottoman Turkish empire fought Russian forces, some of the Armenian minority in eastern Anatolia sided with the Russians. In May 1915, the Armenian minority, one or two million strong, was forcefully deported and marched from the Anatolian borders towards Syria and Mesopotamia (now Iraq). Many died en route. Armenia says 1.5 million Armenians were killed in this period, either through systematic massacres or through starvation. It alleges that a deliberate genocide was carried out by the Ottoman Turkish empire. Turkey acknowledges that many Armenians died, but says Turks died too, and that massacres were committed on both sides as a result of inter-ethnic violence and the wider World War. Dink had been convicted of trying to influence the judiciary in 2005 after Agos ran stories criticizing a law making it a crime to insult Turkey, the Turkish government or the Turkish national character. The conviction was rare even in a country where trials of journalists, academics and writers have become common. Most of the cases, including that of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Orhan Pamuk last year, were either dropped on a technicality or lead to acquittals. Fehmi Koru, a columnist at the Yeni Safak newspaper, said the killing was aimed at destabilizing Turkey. His loss is the loss of Turkey, Koru said. Dozens of other journalists, many of them friends of Dink, publicly condemned the killing. Broadcasters on CNN-Turk and NTV, two of the major news stations, called it shameful, saddening and embarrassing. Dr. Stephen Feinstein, Director Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies University of Minnesota 100 Nolte Hall West 315 Pillsbury Drive Minneapolis, MN. 55455 Phone: (612) 626-2235 FAX: (612) 626-9169 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WEB SITE: http://www.chgs.umn.edu ---End Message---
Fwd: Rain Taxi auction underway
hey all, i've got a handwoven shawl on auction here, plus there's lots of great stuff, signed books etc from great folks...check it out! Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:20:13 -0600 From: Rain Taxi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Rain Taxi auction underway Dear Literary Friends-- Rain Taxi is having a fundraising auction this week on eBay; please visit www.raintaxi.com to check it out! There are lots of great books, broadsides, artworks, etc selling these items helps our nonprofit organization stay afloat, so we hope you'll a) take a peek yourself, and b) help spread the word by notifying your own friends, colleagues, email lists, etc. or by mentioning it on blogs and such. The auction ends on Sunday, January 21. Many thanks and all best, Your friends at Rain Taxi -- Rain Taxi Review of Books PO Box 3840 Minneapolis, MN 55403 http://www.raintaxi.com
Re: Minou Drouet
there was a fantastic, heart-breaking article on minou drouet in the New Yorker a few months ago; really fired me made me want to read her work. At 5:27 PM -0800 1/12/07, phanero wrote: I would like to call attention to this excellent post by Elizabeth Treadwell today. http://secretmint.blogspot.com/2006/12/minou-drouet-or-man-with-yellow-hat-is.html
Re: 365/365, Jennifer
hey dan congrats on a BE-YOU-Tiful series, with such a gorgeous culmination! At 8:15 AM -0500 1/11/07, Dan Waber wrote: Jennifer is the love of my life, the glue that holds all my toothpicks together, my bestest friend in the world, my green velvet beetle bird, my chipmunk zoo, my oh, my mine and more, always and all ways more. 40 words, 40 years 365 days, 365 people http://www.logolalia.com/40x365
Re: a brilliant article by christophe bruno
or that ubiquitous descriptor brilliant if flawed --reminding us that we are all human, all-too-human...xo, md At 7:10 PM -0500 1/3/07, Charles Baldwin wrote: Maria: Thanks and you're right that there's some here that I wouldn't agree with. I was quick in my adjectives (brilliant) but what I do like is his assessment of the linguistic vectors of generalized semantic capitalism (the dimensions: reticular and interruption). Bruno's analysis is entirely partial, I agree, or I suppose it's more precise to say entirely symbolic. I find it - and the type of art it leads him to - useful for this, useful for the way it does brings out the symbolics of internet protocols and economics (thus his reading of Google and Turing and Poe and so on.) So, if not brilliant, perhaps illuminating ... Sandy Maria Damon [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/03/07 5:45 PM hi sandy: i've only read the 1st 2 paragraphs, but already i see some hasty assertions. For one, not all memory is inscribed via language; it can be inscribed in the body as well. Esp pre-verbal memories. SEcond, I thought the point of the panopticon was not that everybody could see everybody else, but that those in power could see all prisoners at all time, but the prisoners couldn't necessarily see each other. i'll read on to see if i'm jumping to critique too hastily. xo,md At 5:17 PM -0500 1/3/07, Charles Baldwin wrote: http://art.runme.org/1107861771-3038-0/bruno.pdf
Re: The 2006 You Didn't Hear About (fwd)
thanks alan! i really appreciate this shot in the arm. happy new year xo to all md At 3:00 AM -0500 1/1/07, Alan Sondheim wrote: -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 23:50:44 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: The 2006 You Didn't Hear About The 2006 You Didn't Hear About By Rebecca Solnit, AlterNet. Posted December 29, 2006. http://www.alternet.org/story/46015/ While many of the big stories in 2006 were bad news, there were hundreds of activist successes in 2006 that permanently changed the world. The big news is usually the bad news, and this year the biggest stories weren't even news -- climate change and the war in Iraq were trouble that had begun well before 2006. But dozens of small stories set another tone -- the tone of that graffiti in Seattle during the shutdown of the World Trade Organization there in 1999: We are winning -- not the same as we have won and can stop; we are winning is a call to action. Activists won dozens of small and not-so-small victories for human rights and the environment in 2006. The fabric of the world is woven out of small gestures; the large ones mostly just rend it and leave more to mend. And the small gestures continue. Here are some of them. On December 31, 2005, Black Mesa Coal shut down its mine on indigenous land in Arizona because that mine fed all its coal -- as water-depleting slurry pumped 300 miles across the desert -- to the Mojave Power Station that cranked out obscene quantities of particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, and all manner of other nasty things during the decades of its operation. The mainstream media played it as a jobs story; the alternative media mostly missed what had a decade earlier been a big environmental cause. In February indigenous leaders, forest activists and logging companies reached a historic deal that protected five million acres outright and limited logging on another 10 million acres of the Great Bear Wilderness in north-coast British Columbia. That's an area more than twice the size of Yellowstone National Park wholly preserved with another four or so Yellowstones protected -- and not just set aside as national parks are, but put under the joint jurisdiction of the First Nations people from the region and of the provincial government. Indigenous peoples won victories all over the world in 2006, perhaps beginning with the inauguration of labor leader Evo Morales as president of Bolivia on January 22nd, the first indigenous president of the largely indigenous nation since the Spanish invasion almost five centuries before. He made good on his campaign promises to nationalize energy resources and negotiated contracts giving the impoverished nation far higher percentages of profits from natural-gas extraction. In November, the Achuar people of the Peru-Ecuador rainforest blockaded a major oil producer and forced it and the Peruvian government to implement environmental reforms. Similarly, on July 20th, the Nigerian courts ordered Shell Corporation to pay $1.5 billion to the Ijaw people of the Niger Delta, who had been fighting the oil company for compensation for environmental devastation since 2000. In December, in Botswana, the San people -- sometimes called the Bushmen -- won the court case over their eviction from their homeland. The decision restored their right to live, hunt, and travel on their ancestral lands. While the Navajo still fight an attempt to site a new power plant on their reservation, there were other victories against the environmental destructiveness of energy production when Congress banned all new oil, gas, and mineral drilling leases on the Rocky Mountain Front region of Montana, one portion of the west chewed up by the Bush-era extraction stampede. There were domestic victories on other fronts. One major U.S. citizen achievement was the October defeat of attempts to privatize and jack up usage fees on the Internet, despite $200 million in corporate spending on the issue. A new grassroots movement defeated the telecom industry's attempt to take over this major new zone of global communication for its own profit. A minor but sweet victory for independent thinking and bold opposition was Stephen Colbert's April dressing down of the Bush Administration, to the president's face, at the White House Press Corps dinner. The mainstream media, also excoriated by the bold Colbert, ignored the spectacular verbal attack until the alternative media made the story impossible to ignore. Such trajectories -- major stories investigated, exposed and explained by the alternative media until the mainstream can no longer ignore the news -- are one of the reasons why net neutrality matters. Another grassroots groundswell that mattered was the immigrants' rights marches of last spring, which were launched with the surprising turnout in Los Angeles -- not the easiest city for walking and marching -- of more than a million Latinos and others defiant of crackdowns
Re: 355/365, Harley
bravo, dan, for this beautifully sustained series!! At 7:54 AM -0500 1/1/07, Dan Waber wrote: Harley always seemed to me like the perfect gentleman. Unflappable, impeccably dressed, married to a woman who was more like Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis than anyone I ever knew, he was the quiet one of the brothers, and taught me graciousness. 40 words, 40 years 365 days, 365 people http://www.logolalia.com/40x365
Re: 355/365, Harley
oops, i'm off by 10 days. oh well, consider my accolades an affirmation rather than a closure. At 7:54 AM -0500 1/1/07, Dan Waber wrote: Harley always seemed to me like the perfect gentleman. Unflappable, impeccably dressed, married to a woman who was more like Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis than anyone I ever knew, he was the quiet one of the brothers, and taught me graciousness. 40 words, 40 years 365 days, 365 people http://www.logolalia.com/40x365
Fwd: {LEA: nmp}. LEAD: New Media Poetics and Poetry Chat Transcripts Available!
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Re: chemosynthetic communities
yay woods hole oceanographic institute! that's right down the street from my mother's place on the cape. At 6:49 PM -0600 12/5/06, mIEKAL aND wrote: Bizarre deep-sea creatures imaged off New Zealand Movie Camera The weird and wonderful creatures living by methane vents in the southwest Pacific have been photographed for the first time (see images right and below). http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/ns/cms/dn10653/dn10653-3_600.jpg The deep-sea communities live around methane seeps off New Zealand's eastern coast, up to 1 kilometre beneath the sea surface. The team of 21 researchers from the US and New Zealand, who spent two weeks exploring the area, have just returned to shore. See video footage recorded by the researchers here, here and here. It's the first time cold seeps have been viewed and sampled in the southwest Pacific, and will greatly contribute to our knowledge of these intriguing ecosystems, says Amy Baco-Taylor from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in the US. Cold seeps are areas of the seabed where methane or hydrogen sulphide gas escape from stores deep underneath. Like hydrothermal vents, the gases support unique life forms that can convert the energy-rich chemicals into living matter in the absence of any sunlight. Sheer extent Animals living around methane seeps off Chile and Japan have been observed before, but not near New Zealand. The seeps here are remarkable in the sheer extent of their chemosynthetic communities, says Baco-Taylor, whose team visited eight such sites between 750 and 1050 metres beneath the surface. They used sonar to map the seafloor and to detect plumes of water rich in methane, then lowered a video and stills camera system over each site. This allowed them to record images of tube worms between 30 cm and 40 cm in length as they emerged from beneath limestone boulders. They also recorded corals, sponges and shell beds covered with various types of clam and mussel. The expedition was led by scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of Hawaii at Manoa in the US, and New Zealand's National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research.
Re: RAPTOR RHAPSODY
happy birthday AZURE! i hope you did something fun/ Alan Sondheim wrote: And the day you sent the email, the 22nd, was Azure's 30th birthday as well. Happy Thanksgiving! - Alan On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, susan maurer wrote: neglected to mention the day i was sitting at my computer was my birthday sm From: susan maurer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Theory and Writing WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.WVU.EDU To: WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.WVU.EDU Subject: RAPTOR RHAPSODY Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 09:29:34 -0500 i was sitting at my computer when i received a request for a mss . zipped it out and found out two days ago the editor loved it and it will be out in early 07. magical really. happy tgiving all. susan maurer _ All-in-one security and maintenance for your PC.� Get a free 90-day trial! http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwlo005002msn/direct/01/?href=http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwlo005001msn/direct/01/?href=http://www.windowsonecare.com/?sc_cid=msn_hotmail _ Share your latest news with your friends with the Windows Live Spaces friends module. http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwsp007001msn/direct/01/?href=http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=createwx_url=/friends.aspxmk blog at http://nikuko.blogspot.com - for URLs, DVDs, CDs, books/etc. see http://www.asondheim.org/advert.txt - contact [EMAIL PROTECTED], - general directory of work: http://www.asondheim.org Trace at: http://tracearchive.ntu.ac.uk - search Alan Sondheim http://clc.as.wvu.edu:8080/clc/Members/sondheim
Mark Nowak in Cleveland and Michigan
Mark Nowak in Michigan Cleveland Friday, November 3, 2006 Michigan State University Museum, Lansing Lecture: Writing in the First Person Plural: The Ford/NUMSA Worker-poets of Pretoria and Port Elizabeth 12:15 PM, MSU Museum Auditorium (part of the show Workers Culture in Two Nations: South Africa and the United States, http://www.museum.msu.edu/Exhibitions/Current/WorkersCultureinTwoNations.html) Thursday November 2-Sunday November 5, 2006 Cleveland Public Theatre staging of Capitalization (Nowak will be speaking on a post-performance panel on Saturday, November 4) http://www.cptonline.org/seasoncalendar/event.cfm?eventid=250eventdateid=1742
Re: My Father the Icon; My Father the Molester (fwd)
fascinating. people are so afraid of these things, as if they weren't commonplace. why not accept a tale of abuse and forgiveness? At 10:59 PM -0400 10/16/06, Alan Sondheim wrote: -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 22:16:57 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: My Father the Icon; My Father the Molester My Father the Icon; My Father the Molester Daughter of Communist leader Herbert Aptheker recalls the pain and reconciliation that led to writing about her childhood abuse. By Bettina Aptheker October 15, 2006 http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-op-aptheker15oct15,1,2000947.story [The oped below by Bettina Aptheker is based on her recent memoir, Intimate Politics. A discussion/review of this book by Chris Phelps appeared in The Chronicle of Higher Education in the edition dated October 6. The Chronicle objects to the reprinting of material that appears in CHE, but the article is available to subscribers of CHE at http://chronicle.com/. We also print below material from the discussion of the Phelps article on the listserve of the Historians of American Communism (HOAC) http://www.h-net.org/~hoac/. Other contributions to the HOAC discussion can be found by typing in the keyword aptheker in the list archives. -- moderator] Comments from: Bettina Aptheker, Clare Spark, Melvyn Dubofsky, Mark Rosenzweig, Stephen Schwartz === My Father the Icon; My Father the Molester Daughter of Communist leader Herbert Aptheker recalls the pain and reconciliation that led to writing about her childhood abuse. By Bettina Aptheker October 15, 2006 http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-op-aptheker15oct15,1,2000947.story It is a little disconcerting and somewhat chilling to read reviews of my recently published memoir and see my own words quoted back to me. It is not because I don't like what I wrote, or feel shame about it. It is because I was the holder of so many family secrets, and the injunction to silence was so strong. In writing my story, I broke all of the family rules. Growing up, I held tight to the illusion that everything would by OK if I too could project the image of the perfect family, even though my inner life was so fraught with tension. In seeing recent reviews of my book, although favorable, sometimes the child part of my mind shrinks in horror: What have you done? And then the calm, adult part of my mind says: You have told the truth to the best of your ability. Any of us who has experienced childhood sexual abuse or other forms of abuse, even as adults, knows something of these conflicted feelings. My parents, Fay and Herbert Aptheker, were members of the U.S. Communist Party. My mother was a union organizer, and my father was often described in the New York Times as the party's leading theoretician, as if it were an appendage to his name. He was also a radical historian and the literary executor of the papers of W.E.B. DuBois. He published extensively and was an exceedingly controversial figure in the historical profession, and his Communist affiliation assured that he was blacklisted from any university work, beginning in the 1930s. I grew up in the 1950s striving to be the perfect daughter as my embattled parents bravely stood up to the McCarthy hearings, anti-Communist purges and trials and the executions of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. In childhood, I assumed that I would inherit my father's dream and further his ambition. This was my parents' expectation. As I matured, I gave up those particular dreams and ambitions, but I did not give up my mother and my father, even after the memories of sexual abuse arose. As I wrote in the memoir, I sought a middle ground between the grief of an irreconcilable break and the long shadow of denial. It was when I began writing the memoir in the mid-1990s, and especially its childhood section, that I had my first memories of sexual abuse by my father, which I had entirely suppressed until then. I was mucking around in my childhood because my daughter and my partner, reading early drafts, kept saying that the narrative was emotionally flat. Where are you? they wanted to know. What were you feeling? I was the narrator, but the story read as though I was floating around on the ceiling of my childhood, watching it unfold. The psychological term for this is dissociation. I was about 3 years old when the sexual abuse began, and it was when my father and I were playing a game called choo-choo train on the rug on the living room floor of our apartment in Brooklyn. My father stopped molesting me when I was 13. By then, of course, it was no longer a game. It was clear in my memory that my father took great care never to hurt me physically; he was, in fact, very gentle with me. But he also made clear I was never, ever to tell anyone about our games. Once the memories erupted - and they did erupt with astonishing, volcanic force - I stopped writing. I needed counseling, and
Re: Urban Graffiti
cool! where is it? At 8:27 AM -0700 9/25/06, chris wrote: I really liked this mural I walked past just the other day: http://trnsnd.net/graf.html
Re: I LABORATORY
Title: Re: I LABORATORY très stein, ma chère. At 12:22 AM -0500 9/11/06, Audacia Dangereyes wrote: I LABORATORY you mean to say they print such things by women let strangers into your dinner soup and deprecating cows saluted progress out of sight took a taxi cynical convictions split the web funny-place to fetch my writing they published a gurgle in the eyes of concussion bet you a turnip your sister believes without looking-up she read tid-bits of her favourite god http://stoneagetype.tk
Re: Opening Digital Bodies Saturday Sept 2nd 4 - 6 PM
Title: Re: Opening Digital Bodies Saturday Sept 2nd 4 - 6 PM this looks fun!! wish i cd attend. but where are the chicks? At 3:42 PM +0200 8/28/06, Geert Dekkers wrote: http:nznl.org/ digital_bodies/ Digital Bodies.html NOTES ON THE TRANSITION FROM THE DIGITAL TO THE PHYSICAL (AND BACK AGAIN) GEERT DEKKERS (NL) FOOFWA D'IMOBILITÉ (CH) MOGENS JACOBSEN (DK) JAN ROBERT LEEGTE (NL) ALAN SONDHEIM (USA) you are cordially invited for theopening Saturday 2 09 / 16 h / 18 h reutengalerie amsterdam fokke simonszstraat 49 wo/za 13 h/18 h 2 09 / 7 10 06
Re: FACE OFF
these last two take the cake. At 3:34 PM -0700 8/26/06, Talan Memmott wrote: 1. Why bother. 2. no one sees you. On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 23:10:27 +0100 Pixel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Why bother being debonaire if nobody sees you? 2. If no one sees you, then you'd have to have zebra hair to make them notice. xp - Original Message - From: Halvard Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.WVU.EDU Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2006 10:29 PM Subject: Re: FACE OFF On Aug 26, 2006, at 1:12 PM, mIEKAL aND wrote: 1. Why bother being a thousandaire if nobody loves you? 2. If nobody loves you, then you'll have to be a godzillionaire so somebody will talk to you. 1. Why bother being a Frigidaire if nobody turns you on? 2. If nobody turns you on, then you'll have to have an iceman come to cool you off. Am I wrong, or are fewer and fewer people using the word 'Weltschmerz' these days? --Christopher Howell Halvard Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard http://entropyandme.blogspot.com http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com http://www.hamiltonstone.org
Re: SUPERFICIAL RELATIONSHIPS
Title: Re: SUPERFICIAL RELATIONSHIPS audacia wrote, i embroidered: SUPERFICIAL RELATIONSHIPS emerged from glassy rock silica threaded quipu blood launched the growing light mayhem anticipate dawn scarcely paralyzed she will never forget to rally star-terrain to wriggle digits splatter blew through the wider to reveal scramble against humitic shale source records emitted the explosion marbled progress closet earth atonal thunder popped a pregnant soprano next aslant the fixed pleasure-drone my fatigue collected innocence his name was a well-known riddle antecedents lost in mists of the bagpipe mythic only to motherwit keenings in hoarse voice to laugh at anything open-hearted polar elusions artificial replacement for public miracles that's the name of the game documents dancing in the tiniest iceberg the scream of the people giant throne turning invisible automatically the Ice Queen often dreamt-of walking until skull-computer snapped into existence the hanging garden's a good place for that http://stoneagetype.tk
Re: A Carved Ivory Figure of a Roman Actor Wearing the Traditonal Tragic Costume and Mask.
hey this stuff is great! At 12:59 AM -0700 8/23/06, phanero wrote: Let's see if I can do this confessionalism thing, since it seems to be rather outre' among who-what-who-rang-you rang? aawwwhh. Fact: My landscapist and horticulturist is nearly finished installing about a 35ft run of black, timber, and crook-stem bamboo along the fence-line with my northern neighbors. Fact: We got a really good deal, because her supplier is like this totally wigged out hippie Oregon stoner bamboo dude (mid 30's) whose business is to go and harvest big patches of bamboo that have gotten away from their owners and who want it removed. He repots it or replants it rurally and sells it for less than half of even a wholesale nursery price. For 2 Grand I have an instant stand of Bamboo whose average mean height is about 9 ft tall and well over 50 individuals. Fact: Today when I went to mail out Alan's book on the Weathermen, I stopped at a new Asian Bubble-Tea shop to get an iced Americano triple Shot and browse at my favorite Antique/Slash junq shop 2 doors down. I picked up Everett F. Bleiler's _The Checklist of Fantastic Literature_, and _Witchcraft in the Southwest: Spanish and Indian Supernaturalism on the Rio Grande_ by Marc Simmons which has a wonderful photograph of a trio of Mexican witches from 1895. This book will dovetail nicely into a new cluster of Ethnographic witchcraft texts I am slowly collecting. Nowhere near as large as my Head-hunting collection, but I'm not even really trying at this point. Fact: One of the laborers today was a student of Chinese. He was 22. The other laborer is a well-known local guitarist named Darren but I don't know the name of his band. He helped me move my old 36 television into the basement and would not accept the $20 I offered him because I have so few male friends and there's never really any context for me to ask for physical assistance with moving stuff. I thought that was pretty nice of him. At one point during the day we all had a long talk about the film White King, Red Rubber, Black Death http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0404551/ which is essentially about the cover-up of the realities of life in the Congo during Leopold II's reign etc, which is where Conrad got his Heart of Darkness story from. What was odd, Is that I saw another documentary about the problem with the Nile Perch in Lake Victoria who had the same African Historian in it but who isn't listed at all on the IMDB web-page which sort of pisses me off. http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0416-24.htm In the movie, a longish section is about how the children take the styrofoam boxes and melt them down along the shores to sniff the glue.. This makes them sleep very deeply, so many people go and find the sleeping children in order to sodomize their sleeping bodies. The same narrator does both films or at least I'm pretty sure it was the same guy. The Nile Perch film was so depressing I had to turn it off. It was that bad. South Indians are completely exploiting this area to the ruination if the environment etc. I say that, because that's a prominent feature in the film, though I'm sure there's more complexity to it if I could have stood to watch it more, but actually seeing little kids huddled around little kettles of melting styrofoam just about made me gag so I turned it off. Yesterday Grace was telling me about a friend of hers, another Californian Native American who was actually a special type of Apache shaman, one of the gender ambiguous types. She was describing his clothing which I found very interesting. I guess he also had some chemical issues and died. Vlad came over today, and he started a long diatribe against the Jews. He has a very Czech way of looking at things, and I tried to point him in the direction of Israeli nation bad like more or less most nations, and Jew more or less variable.. He seem to agree with this, though he held deep reservations about the basic character of the average jew: They are not craftsman, they build nothing, They are scumbag.. I can't help but love the way he calls folks he doesn't like scumbags.. Vlad is a mailman, and one hell of a craftsman in a sense. Today I finally found a decent Medusa Bust. She looks confused, sad, anxious, and tragic. She's sitting next to my cheapo chinese lamp in front of the printer on my scandinavian cherrywood faux veneer desk. The Fetishist and the Iconoclast are like two sides of a coin, but the funny thing is, they are also both their own other. The fetishist is an iconoclast of the image of the iconoclast, and the Iconoclast's Iconoclasm is a fetish. Go figure. This is basically why I think art and poetry are sort of bullshit. I mean I get stuff out of it, but really, any leaf is as good as a rembrandt or better, and listening to my Mom talk (or anybody really) is just as interesting as Shakespeare at least to me. I know there are perils with the radical democratization and
Re: 219/365, George
what was the story? At 7:36 AM -0400 8/18/06, Dan Waber wrote: George wept, openly, as he told me a story, the first night we met, sitting in the middle of a busy downtown NYC restaurant, at a table of thirteen. I know no better example of how to be a human. 40 words, 40 years 365 days, 365 people http://www.logolalia.com/40x365
Re: promise/skewity... appendix.Z / Twittering (exerpt)
ah it never seems to end...misunderstanding among intimates. cuz the stakes are so high. skewed communication, skewered heart, squirming on the spit like an impaled frog. At 2:59 AM -0700 8/14/06, Talan Memmott wrote: Loyalty is for dogs. Dogs and pussies. Now. Or, so it seems. One thinks this Punk would know better -- know this already, but you can't teach an old dog new tricks. He's too busy getting ready, already, for his next campaign. The next, which will be the next never next. Failure is predetermined; a repeating pattern beyond his control. What control? He's too weak to even consider. Still, he will march whole-heartedly into the next, his own demise. He already has, again. And all will shake their heads, lower their heads in disgust. She makes a promise. She makes a promise to break a promise. The initial promise is still unspoken but he knows it's there, was there -- he feels it, he felt it. He thought. She want's him to make a promise. She wants him to make a promise she knows he cannot keep. She wants him to break. He wants her to make a promise he knows she will not keep. This is nothing new. Fathomless. Before she speaks he tells her he will keep the promise, her promise; unspoken. But, first he wants to know the conditions, what must he do, exactly, for it, the promise to be kept -- considered. She can only promise -- what she will do, in actuality, is another matter. Entirely. He can only promise -- what he will do next doing is another matter entirely. He will keep her promise, but wants to know what he is protecting. She will need evidence. She will ask for the evidence and pretend to be surprised, as if she is being presented with a gift. A great gift, proving everything. Unspoken. Dogs and pussies! She can only promise skewity. He can only promise skewity, though she thinks differently. That he promises something else. She's no longer interested. No longer interested, she's already in Paris. 2000. No. Pas deux mille. Le c'est pas le temps pourtant. Supplémentaire dans l'avénir. Bastille Day, and everyone is American. 2001. Le c'est pas deux mille et une. Bastille Day, and everyone is American. Dogs and pussies! She will promise if he will promise. She will make him promise in order to keep her promise. He will promise with the prospect that she will keep her promise. Otherwise...
Re: shows you've read little
Title: Re: shows you've read little this is exactly the MN mindset. folks who use a lot of words are villainous. when i went to see the k branagh/e thompson film of Much Ado About Nothing here in MN i had a v funny experience. Keanu Reeves's first lines are Sire, I am a man of few words. You could feel the audience warming up to him immediately and the ensuing confusion when he turned out to be the bad guy. At 6:48 PM -0500 8/14/06, Tony Trigilio wrote: http://www.starve.org/usenet.html You claim that words are a satanic medium . . . by that logic, the fewer words they use, the less satanic they are. Source: Page 148 of White Noise Keywords: shows, you've, read, little About The Usenet Project: An x is drawn in the middle of a page of Don DeLillo's White Noise (Penguin Classics Edition, 1999). The first three, sometimes four, words (excluding articles and prepositions) that intersect the lines of this x from its cross are fed into Google's Usenet index, which now dates back to 1981. On even-numbered days, the most recent Google entry is used, using Google's sort by date function. On odd-numbered days, the first Google entry to appear is used, anything from 1981 to the present. A new posting will be included every week -- an archive of radiant rants, habits, and hobbies. Thanks to Bernadette Mayer's X on Page 50 at half inch intervals.
Re: FEUILLETON
Title: Re: FEUILLETON what's the compositional principle at work? At 3:48 PM -0500 8/13/06, Audacia Dangereyes wrote: FEUILLETON you said humbly both read books vanishing and easily outdistanced by time I got to the scene panting all ancient history http://stoneagetype.tk
Re: IMMUNITY
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Re: IMMUNITY
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Re: [vel] Wikipedia 2006
i've had this issue since alan went off poetics, b/c he put me on a list of cc's and then i got on wryting. At 12:45 PM -0400 8/10/06, Paul Stone wrote: Just for your info Alan: For the past month or so, almost all of your posts have been coming to me in duplicate. Has anyone else had this phenomenon? ## Paul Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kingsville, ON, Canada
Re: melancholia's tremulous dreadlocks issue 1
yeah, this is really good. At 7:14 PM -0400 7/30/06, Alan Sondheim wrote: This is an amazing issue by the way - all the work I read is really good (I sound like highschool) - I think it's some of mIEKAL's best work but who am I to know - Alan -- Forwarded message -- From: mIEKAL aND [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Jul 30, 2006 12:54 PM Subject: Fwd: melancholia's tremulous dreadlocks issue 1 To: WRYTING-L@listserv.utoronto.ca Begin forwarded message: From: Andrew Lundwall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: July 30, 2006 6:09:06 AM CDT To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: melancholia's tremulous dreadlocks issue 1 http://www.melancholiastremulousdreadlocks.com the first ever issue of melancholia's tremulous dreadlocks is online now... poets featured in this edition of mtd: mIEKAL aND! John M. Bennett! Marcia Arrieta! Petra Backonja! Anny Ballardini! Bob Marcacci! Robert Chrysler! kari edwards! Alex Gildzen! Johannes Goransson! Richard Denner! Jeff Harrison! Chris Toll! Eileen Tabios! Lina Ramona Vitkauskas! please visit: http://www.melancholiastremulousdreadlocks.com/ cheers! andrew lundwall -- http://www.asondheim.org http://nikuko.blogspot.com http://www.asondheim.org/advert.txt
