November 2009 – Nomadics

November 24, 2009

The Fassbinder Legacy

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...

Conference / Performance / Poetry readings / Uncategorized

November 22, 2009

Angoulême Conference: L'art, l'éducation et le politique

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,...

Uncategorized

November 22, 2009

Euro News via signandsight

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...

Literary Magazines & Reviews / Literature / Uncategorized

November 20, 2009

1000 Issues of the Quinzaine Littéraire

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...

Poetry

November 19, 2009

National Book Award for poetry to Keith Waldrop

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...

Air pollution / Climate Change / Fossil fuel / Global Warming

November 18, 2009

Earth 'heading for 6C' of warming

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...

Agitprop / Interview / Situationist International

November 17, 2009

Conversation with Raoul Vaneigem

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....

Book Reviews / Books / European History / Uncategorized

November 16, 2009

It's Heidegger déjà vu all over again

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...

Antarctic Ice / Arctic Ice / Climate Change / Environment / Global Warming / Music / Poetics

November 13, 2009

Miles, Corbin, Kelly, Greenland, etcetera.

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! * *...

Performance / Poetry readings

November 12, 2009

Warren Burt Performance

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...