notebook from december 2024

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1. Anchor Stone Blocks

2. Reification

3. Benjamin's "phantasmagoria"

4. Time and the spectacle

5. Alexander Potebnya and poetic language

6. Watten on the Symbolists

7. The Symbolists and rhyme

8. The Futurists and poetic language

9. Velimir Khlebnikov

10. David Melnick's "Pcoet"

11. The Situationists and "real lived experience"

12. The Situationist definition of culture

13. John Hankiewicz's HOT HOUSE

14. Transrational (zaum) poetics

15. The phrasal unit and rhythmic balance

16. Perception of the economy

17. Engels on 'Social Murder'

18. Capitalism and the "distribution of suffering"

19. Johanna Hedva's "Sick Woman Theory'

20. The collective project of reorganizing the world

21. Poetry and the law

22. Sonya Huber's "Pain Woman Takes Your Keys"

23. Alison Kafer's "Feminist, Queer, Crip"

24. Esme Wang's "The Collected Schizophrenias"

25. Johanna Hedva's "How To Tell When We Will Die"

26. Robert Hershon, "Sentimental Moment"

27. "Lyric Postmodernisms"

28. Lisa Robertson, "Nilling"

29. Rita Dove, "Pithos"

30. Weaponized film criticism

31. "Complaints and Disorders: The Sexual Politics of Sickness"

32. Sickness and wellness

33. The politics of care

34. Dodie Bellamy's "When The Sick Rule The World"

35. "Asemic Walks"

36. "Abstract Film and Beyond"

37. “Conceptual wholes”

38. Levine’s project

39. Closure and ideological wholeness

40. Origins of the seminar

41. Curation and editorial work (in poetry)

42. Donald Hall

43. THIS journal

44. The audience for a diary

45. Is 1984 a critique?

46. An appreciation of Foucault's prose style

47. Opaque theory and writing for the future

48. Carrying on human heritage, for Orwell

49. The "inner structure of willing"

50. Merrill Gillfiland's "To Parlay"

51. Curation reading list

52. Warner on Adorno's "Minima Moralia"

53. Common sense vs intellectual writing

54. The history of critiques of common sense

55. Thoreau's distrust of common sense

56. "Radical critics of alienation" vs good writing?

57. Michelle Santiago Cortés's reading list for 2025

58. Christopher Michlig’s "File Under: Slime"

59. The Merry Pranksters' "Psychedelic Symphony"

60. Ramon Sender's "Four Sanskrit Hymns"

61. Terry Riley's "Concert for Two Pianos and Four Tape Recorders"

62. 1958: Pauline Oliveros / Terry Riley improvisations

63. 1952: Cage's theatrical pieces

64. 1959: Allan Kaprow's early Happenings

65. "Composition for Actors"

66. Moholy-Nagy's "theater of totality"

67. The films of John and James Whitney

68. Jorie Graham on experience

69. Jorie Graham on information vs knowledge

70. Poets recommended by Jorie Graham

71. Recommended readings for science writers

72. 1757: Burke's "delightful horror"

73. The "affective turn" in theorizing horror

74. Aisthanomai

75. Twitchell and formalist interpretations of horror

76. The Greeks and the vocabulary of fear

77. Brinkema on Todorov's "fantastic"

78. Richard Chartier's Best of 2024 list

79. claire rousay's Best of 2024 list

80. SABIWA, "Sons of _"

81. Conversational protocols

82. The "linguistic tracing of subjects"

83. Language as "collective relationship"

84. The "prosody of the citizen"

85. Speech and action

86. Ecology as a model of power

87. Maria Rosa Menocal's "Shards of Love"

88. Benveniste and the shifting social contexts of words

89. Civis and domus

90. Shayne Terry's "Leave: A Postpartum Account"

91. Joyelle McSweeney's "Death Styles"

92. Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra, Live At The Adler Planetarium

93. The "death of Hollywood's middle class"

94. Helen Scarsdale’s Best of 2024

95. Ivan Illich's "thresholds"

96. Gary Snyder on repetition and ritual

97. Rob Horning on generative AI