Nomadics Blog

More Revisionism: No Orientalism?

I guess it had to be expected: a few years after Edward Said’s death, the attacks on the historical concept that made him a target even in his life-time, namely Orientalism, which the ever...

No Multiculturism in Al Andalus?

Are we in for revisionist historical assessments when it comes to Arab cultures? It may be too early to say, though if the article by medieval historian Francisco Garcia Fitz, published in German translation...

And Allen Ginsberg…

…would be eighty today. Om. The pix above comes from emptymirrorbooks webpage, and if you click on the photo on that site you’ll get info on John ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins, the photographer.

Josephine Baker…

… would be 100 today! Here are a few of her lines, from her “official website:” “Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than the skin tone, when religion is seen...

Oscar Pastior' Büchner Prize

Poet Oscar Pastior was honored last month with Germany’s major literary award, the Büchner prize. Better late than never, you could say, though some would interpret such a belated, long overdue event as close...

Enzensberger takes on Jihad

Hans Magnus Enzensberger, poet, essayist and anthologist, has just published a booklength essay on radical Islam, Schreckens Männer, (Suhrkamp Verlag). I have not yet read the book, only just perused a longish interview with...

Apikoros Sleuth

Back from Toronto (never got into TO itself, the only free day turning out to be the day of the TTC’s wild-cat strike) but remained stuck on York campus. Much excellent time spent with...

Brossard & Ince

At York University. Early breakfast seance listening to Nicole Brossardtalk of “la ville” the city in her life and writing, as a major producerof euphoria, saying “l’air de la ville rend libre parce que...