Words Without Borders has recently released its second annual Queer Issue, and there are some staggering stories in it.…
Criticism as a form of living: on Masha Tupitsyn’s LACONIA: 1200 Tweets on Film.
“…the issue is not freeing ourselves from representation. It’s really about being enlightened witnesses when we watch representations,…
A poem for Thursday: “Present Tense,” Harryette Mullen, from Sleeping with the Dictionary.
“Now that my ears are connected to a random answer machine, the wrong brain keeps talking through my hat. Now…
Postcards from Alsace, passed through Georg Büchner and Paul Celan.
“Towards evening he reached the crest of the mountains, the snowfields that led down again to the westward…
In Buenos Aires with Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
Seeing that A D recently mentioned seeing Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (see my first…
Voices for Manuel Puig: a very, very, very late response to March’s reading
(Note: Sorry for the late response! Wasn’t around much in March.) “Embroidery doesn’t seem tiring, but then your back begins…
On Theresa Cha, kundiman, lost books, why moving hurts, Sappho and archaic love poetry, food poisoning, The Bacchae, Tom Hardy, Hisham Matar, more Veena Das, exhaustion, indebtedness, speaking, showing, writing.
If I were in the NYC area on March 5th, I would try to go to this: Belladonna* and Kundiman…
Notes on visiting the Harun Farocki exhibition at the Center for Contemporary Arts in Glasgow.
Apparently in the United Kingdom there are more surveillance cameras per person than in any other country in the world.…
Monsters (not) vs. aliens: on Philippe Parreno’s Serpentine Gallery exhibit, Elizabeth Grosz, animals, aliens, architecture, emigrants, immigrants, orifices, utopias.
(Yeah, I just wanted to use all the vowels in that title.) Recently the artist Philippe Parreno has been haunting…
“You don’t know if you’re creating a monster.” On Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives and Phantoms of Nabua, Camille Roy, Jacques Derrida, xenia, domestication and writing, being possessed.
I am someone who has long been a host or playmate for monsters and ghosts. My maternal grandmother had to…