Dominic Clark, Photographer (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Hey bloggers, Its friday and its been a very productive week indeed. Monday and tuesday i kicked the ass of my dissertation getting another 1000 words done and by the end of the week i'm aiming for between 4'500 and 5000 words done hitting the all important 5/8's done mark :) Wednesday i went to Nottingham to visit my friends Kirsty and Nikki and they invited me to a guest lecture they were going to,...
Tinfish Editor's Blog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
At the risk of sounding precious, I'll post a quotation from Barbara Jane Reyes's blog , which she put out as a way to generate a valuable conversation. The quotation is by the editor of Tinfish Press, and goes as follows: "My frustration at the moment comes of the fact that no publisher can demand her customers read the press as well as its authors. So the conversations we mean to get going are...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
French anthropologist whose analysis of kinship and myth gave rise to structuralism as an intellectual force The fame of Claude Lévi-Strauss, who has died aged 100, extended well beyond his own subject of anthropology. He was without doubt the anthropologist best known to non-specialists. This is mainly because he is usually considered to be the founder of the intellectual movement known as...
[helix] (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
A found picture on my camera of a place I can't quite recognize. What happens then? Can I reverse Google earth it? Or maybe the elf who has been pilfering my camera and shooting photos with it can shed some knowledge. Can you? It makes me think of Roland Barthes . The book of the day is "A Lover's Discourse, Fragments" by the aforementioned gentleman, translated by Richard Howard . Randomly...
The Water Tower Project (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
A proposal to improve practice in performance photography In my studies at Norwich University College of Art, I investigated the collaboration or rather the lack of it between professional performers and photographers as I have a hypothesis that enabling education to develop the art and practice of performance photography is a worthwhile endeavour. In my experience, the collaboration between editorial...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
Raymond Carver and Ernest Hemingway are both celebrated for their brutal minimalism – but how much do they owe their renown to the interventions of their editors? As two new 'original' versions of their work are published, the question of posthumous restoration has never been more vexed It's been a good year for dead writers: they have been an uncommonly busy bunch. This year sees the publication...
swim/swam (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
There is something uncanny about watching a Youtube clip of Frank O’Hara reading a poem in his apartment, sharpened if, at the same time “chatting” on Skype in another browser, and in another searching for images of Dylan Thomas on Google. It isn’t that feeling of anteriority that Roland Barthes identifies – looking at the [...]
giallo fever (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
The giallo's deterritorialisation of the Hollywood thriller is, however, less pronounced than the spaghtti western's deterritorialisation of the Hollywood western. The obvious explanation for this is that whereas the thriller was indigenous to most countries in one form or another, the western was more exclusively American. It it is true that the figure of the cowboy has been compared with the European...
Condalmo. (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
After going to the office today for a bit, then the bank, I stopped at the annual book sale of a local library. Here’s what I picked up: The Second Tree from the Corner, E.B. White. Why The Library of America hasn’t collected all of his work yet is baffling and disappointing. Mythologies, Roland Barthes. I’ll probably [...]
<HTMLGIANT> (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
True, there are revolts against bourgeois ideology. This is what one generally calls the avant-garde. But these revolts are socially limited, they remain open to salvage. First, because they come from a small section of the bourgeoisie itself, from a minority group of artists and intellectuals, without public other than the class which they contest, [...]
Conversational Reading (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
I'd like to share a quote here from S/Z by Roland Barthes, which is itself quoted in Structuralism in Literature by Robert Scholes. I've included some of Scholes' lead-up so that the Barthes quote makes sense: This [in S/Z] Barthes will quote a few words or lines of [Balzac's short story] "Sarrasine" and then stop to consider the various significations of this lexie before resuming his quotation....
NarcissusWorks (Free subscription) | 25/09/2009
The starting point of these reflections was usually a feeling of impatience at the sight of the 'naturalness' with which newspapers, art and common sense constantly dress up a reality which, even though it is the one we live in, is undoubtedly determined by history. In short, in the account given of our contemporary circumstances, I resented seeing Nature and History confused at every turn, and I wanted...
fahad the super dragon illustrator (Free subscription) | 22/09/2009
Barbra has been quite controversial as her work and subject matter touches the more sensitive note within the viewer. That however does not mean that her work is "rubbish" it actually enhances the experience and takes the viewer on a roller-coaster ride as there is a deeper more real issues she tackles within them. Influences of a certain theorist Roland Barthes are quite evident in her work...
21stCenturyFix.org (Free subscription) | 20/09/2009
Roland Barthes said the following most beautifully: I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedral: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates them as a purely magical object. I now read that: Nissan sound engineers have announced that the Leaf...
Silliman's Blog (Free subscription) | 16/09/2009
“ The Chicago School ” Kent Johnson’s “big shoulders” … really belong to Adam Fieled ? Poetry’s idea of the “Chicago School” is a little different Jimmy Schuyler : “Love’s Photograph (Father and Son)” § Allan Kolksi Horwitz’ introduction to Botsotso: An Anthology of Contemporary South African Poetry § Contemporary...
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