In 1859, the Paris Salon allowed photographs into its exhibition. This brought a howl of outrage from Baudelaire, who claimed…
Pop-up Books: An Homage
Last week, as I was picking up some films from the library of my alma mater, the University of New…
Gunpowder, urine, & the post-production of the long poem
In “The Longing of the Long Poem,” Peter Middleton notes that long poems “resist the support institutions of poetry” since such texts,…
The Smiths Songs You May Be Missing, part 1: “The Smiths”
It’s true what folks say: if you own The Queen Is Dead, Singles, and Louder Than Bombs, then you own…
Brevity, part 7: Slow Motion
Note: This post is partly a reply to a question someone asked me, back-channel, about slow motion, but also partly…
The Dominant, ctd.
Update: If a blog post can ever be said to be in honor of anyone, then consider this one in…
Experimental Fiction as Genre and as Principle
Christopher Higgs at HTMLGIANT recently posted this question: “If you were teaching a class on American experimental fiction, what texts…
Brevity, Part 2: Long Takes
Some of us have been discussing long takes in movies, and John mentioned that he’d like seeing a list of…