Notebook from April

Contains: post-war poetry, complex moral judgment, anarchist anthropology, Ezra Pound and other fascists, psychedelics, decorated skulls, and more

Notebook from April

Contains: post-war poetry, complex moral judgment, anarchist anthropology, Ezra Pound and other fascists, psychedelics, decorated skulls, and more

[organized oldest to newest]

1. Hugh Kenner on a poem's "effect"

2. Perloff's two traditions

3. Perloff: poem as "language construction"

4. "The Poetics of Indeterminacy"

5. Movement in Indeterminist poetry

6. Thomas Whately on ruins

7. Susan Stewart's "The Ruins Lesson"

8. Nazism and eroticism

9. Fascism and eroticism

10. The DOGE alliance

11. "Radical modernism"

12. Particularity and partiality in New American Poetry

13. The social dimension of language

14. The "psychic imperatives" of post-war poetry

15. "Newer" American Poets

16. Bernstein on political polling

17. Formal dynamics and their context

18. Erica Hunt's "The Politics of Poetic Form"

19. Against exposure

20. Susan Howe and the recorded voice

21. Bernstein on Goffman

22. Losing approaches to Pound's politics

23. Against reading for "symbol"

24. Perloff on Pound's "basic strategy"

25. Female poets influenced by Stein

26. Stein: "one does not use nouns"

27. Pleasure in poetic texture

28. Retallack on Cage

29. Cage on "the function of art"

30. Against "little epiphany poems"

31. Cage on language and process

32. The distance between lines in a renga

33. Cage on haiku

34. Retallack on "the great perennial question of poetics"

35. 1970s-2020s: Rise of China's manufacturing

36. Donella Meadows' "Leverage Points"

37. The Montreal Protocol

38. Stephen Rodefer's "Four Lectures"

39. On "free jazz"

40. Julius Hemphill’s "Dogon A.D."

41. Nathaniel Mackey on the Andoumboulou

42. "Militant Anti-Cinemas, Minor Cinemas, and the Anarchive Film"

43. On science and ideology

44. Sufficiency of money

45. HOPE TO DO SOME GOOD, NO MATTER HOW FUCKED UP YOU ARE

46. Gini coefficients

47. The "bancor"

48. 1694: Shift from feudal land power to bourgeois money power

49. Joan Retallack on "the paradox inherent in language"

50. Play and imagination

51. Retallack on play

52. Against "the fallacy of the referent"

53. Bernstein's politics

54. Against limits put on language

55. Retallack on P. Inman's "Ocker"

56. Poetry's "restorative and generative strangeness"

57. Retallack on Bruce Andrews' "Praxis"

58. Retallack on Douglas Messerli

59. Frédéric Coché's "L'Almageste"

60. Hannah Proctor's "Burnout"

61. Christina Sharpe, "Ordinary Notes"

62. Laura Cannell

63. Isaac Fellman's "Notes from a Regicide"

64. bpNichol's "Two Novels"

65. Bios Contrast

66. Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò's "Elite Capture"

67. "Bag culture"

68. Kristen Ross on "composition"

69. "Resistance" vs "defense"

70. Kristen Ross' "The Commune Form"

71. Capital vs. subsistence

72. The Witch Studies Reader

73. "Closing" controversies, in science studies

74. "Radical Science Journal"

75. Indication criteria

76. Diverging theories of tuberculosis

77. "What is it to differ?"

78. The biggest carbon-emitting sectors

79. The "monetary value of human civilization"

80. Sea level

81. Mondragón

82. Brian Massumi's "The Personality of Power"

83. Psychedelic Imaginaries

84. William Mevin Kelly's "Dunfords Travels Everywhere"

85. Leon Forrest's "Divine Days"

86. Defining apartheid

87. Is Israel committing apartheid?

88. "Race is a species of power"

89. Atef Abu Saif's "Don't Look Left"

90. Israel's targeting of journalists

91. Israel's targeting of medical facilities

92. Is Israel committing genocide?

93. Crimes committed by IDF

94. The First Amendment and academic freedom

95. Special legal protection for professors and its limitations

96. Professors vs universities

97. Professors at state universities vs other state employees

98. Moral judgments and objective reasons for action

99. Explanations for complex moral judgments

100. "Archaeobotany"

101. Cultivation vs the "Agricultural Revolution"

102. Flood-retreat farming

103. "Charters for the hatred of women"

104. Gendered knowledge of plants

105. Plant-based knowledge

106. Witchcraft and capitalism

107. Scientific innovation in prehistory

108. "Skull portraits"

109. "Damaged" by Ghost Dubs

110. White Poppy’s "Ataraxia"

111. Civilistjävel mixes

112. Post Moves, "Love’s Temporary Occurrence"

113. Science/Fiction: A Non-History of Plants

114. Equitable agricultural systems

115. Alternate centers of domestication

116. Californian rejection of farming

117. The "Columbian exchange"

118. David Graeber's "Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology"

119. The "ecology of freedom"

120. Nicholas Collins' Semi Conducting

121. Alfred Gell's "Wrapping in Images"

122. Cody Hudson, "Selected Universal Portals"

123. The "discursive shift" in art