0-The University of California Book of North African Literature
1-Exile is My Trade: A Habib Tengour Reader edited & translated by Pierre Joris
2-Pierre Joris: Cartographies of the In-Between edited by Peter Cockelbergh
3-Paul Celan: The Meridian Final Version—Drafts—Materials
Justifying the Margins (Essays)
Birkbeck Contemporary Poetics Research Centre welcomes Pierre Joris and Nicole Peyrafitte A presentation: Poems for the Millennium: Volume Four The University of California Book of North African Literature Followed by Domopoetics Personal & Shared Artistic Practices A Multimedia performance that meanders dialogically between Pierre Joris’ poems, translations & thinking, & Nicole Peyrafitte’s drawings & videos, voice- [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Cultural Studies'
Birbeck College Reading
May 9th, 2013 · No Comments · Cultural Studies, Live Reading, Maghrebi Literature, Performance, Poetry readings
Asymptote Review of Millennium Vol IV
April 23rd, 2013 · 1 Comment · Criticism, Cultural Studies, Literary Magazines & Reviews, Maghreb, Poetry
Beatriz Leal Riesco reviews Poems for the Millennium, Volume Four: The University of California Book of North African Literature Edited by Pierre Joris and Habib Tengour (University of California Press, 2013) To bring together for the first time for the English-speaking public a broad range of texts from North Africa, ranging from ancient myths from the [...]
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Paul Buck on Performance — the movie
April 20th, 2013 · No Comments · Cultural Studies, Film
Old friend & collaborator Paul Buck was interviewed by 3.a.m. magazine on his new book on the film Performance. Opening paras below; read the whole piece here. performance redux Paul Buck interviewed by Richard Marshall. 3:AM: You approach the film from a series of angles – the art scene, the London drug scene, the gangster scene, the film scene and [...]
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Iain Sinclair on Ed Dorn
April 7th, 2013 · No Comments · Book Review, Criticism, Cultural Studies, Poetry, Poets, Uncategorized
There’s an excellent review (& more) of Ed Dorn’s Collected Poems by Iain Sinclair in the current issue of the London Review of Book. Below the opening paragraph. Unhappily you need to be a subscriber (& that’s a worthwhile thing to be, see below) to have full access (or pick up a paper copy in [...]
Eric Mottram on Triggernometry (5)
December 31st, 2012 · 1 Comment · Cultural Studies, Essays
So Nomadics will ring the year out with the final installment of EM’s essay “The Persuasive Lips.” Apologies for leaving the footnotes in a mess, but I simply don’t have the time to reformat these right now. Tomorrow will be another day, we hope. V Samuel R. Delany understands more of the myth in his novel [...]
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Eric Mottram on Triggernometry (3)
December 28th, 2012 · No Comments · Cultural Studies, Essays
III Walter Prescott Webb’s The Great Plains described the development of the cattle kingdoms of the American West and of the cowboy who worked the ranches and ranges. The Homestead Law of 1862, the invention of barbed wire in 1874, and the advent of the windmill, the railway, artificial irrigation systems, and the automobile combined [...]
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Eric Mottram on Triggernometry (2)
December 27th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Cultural Studies, Essays
Enough readers have suggested I continue posting Eric Mottram’s essay, “Persuasive Lips,” so I will — it will take 5 installments all in all. Here, the second part: II The technological morality of gangster and police movies provides a full iconography from the Thirties onwards. The obvious symbolism of black and white shirts is there [...]
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Eric Mottram on Triggernometry
December 26th, 2012 · 2 Comments · Criticism, Cultural Studies, Essays
That lethal all-American gun pathology has obviously been on my mind these last weeks. Two expressions from long ago kept coming back: “triggernometry” and “persuasive lips” — eventually they brought me back to Eric Mottram’s 1976 essay, “The Persuasive Lips” which opened his excellent 1989 collection of cultural criticism essays called Blood on the Nash Ambassador [...]
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Jean Bollack (1923-2012)
December 7th, 2012 · No Comments · Criticism, Cultural Studies, Essays, Homage, Intellectuals, Language, Literature, Obituaries, Paul Celan, Translation
When I think of Jean Bollack — philologist, philosopher, hermeneut, translator, commentator, friend to Paul Celan & irritant to many — the first word that comes to mind is “décrasser,” a French term that means to clean, to scrub or more powerfully, to scour, even dip into a bath of acid to remove the accumulated gangue of lazy [...]
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Rain Taxi Review of “Cartographies”
August 7th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Book Review, Criticism, Cultural Studies, Poetry, Prose, Translation
A review of Pierre Joris-Cartographies of the In-between by Megan Burns was just published by Rain Taxi.Opening para below: PIERRE JORIS Cartographies of the In-Between edited by Peter Cockelbergh Litteraria Pragensia (€12) by Megan Burns “There is no difference between inside and outside at the poem’s warp speed.” —Pierre Joris, Notes Toward a Nomadic Poetics Cartographies [...]
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