readiness is all a new colloquium for the publication of critical analysis and response
Check out Nathaniel Rivers' fabulous new essay on the work of contemporary artist Jenny Odell "who, in one quick moment, con-fused the project of an object-oriented democracy with the artistic gesture of re-attuning us to the infrastructures in our midst." http://www.themediares.com/pages/artifacts/stranger-attractions.html
Better yet, infrastructure has been the missing mass I think through the assemblages of nonhuman and human actors that compose the world.
Nathaniel Rivers for TMR on infrastructure made alien in the work of Bruno Latour and Jenny Odell:
"To think within infrastructure is to do more than render its components visible: it is to rupture the seams between the human and the nonhuman in collective, political life."
http://www.themediares.com/pages/artifacts/stranger-attractions.html
Lynch may not have divulged the kind of meaning Holdengräber was after, but he left us with a form to contemplate, one that now, like his first film, Eraserhead, is “done,” has “gone out into the world” and “is what it is”–a form full of images–sugar as granulated happiness, luke-warm milk shakes, black cars and canopy-clad brownstones, dark subway entrances, a dumpster-diving David Lynch–that can “impress upon us steadily and constantly without intermission, without benefit of words or thoughts.”
http://www.themediares.com/pages/parlance/you-dont-say.html
Though claiming the authority of empirical truth, the privatized popular news media spouts ideology. The editors seek proposed submissions that involve satirical dialogue and speculative discussion. How to reinvest parody with critical potency? How to pollinate conversation toward human flourishing?
The New York Public Library has announced a plan to remake its landmark building on 42nd Street. As Joshua Steiner, vice chairman of the board of trustees, put it in 2008, the renovation in many way represents the “further democratization” of the library. By contrast, a staff member with whom I spok…
A lot of people with whom I email have had enough of me. Their gripes are always the same: “You write back too quickly,” “You don’t give me enough...
The Literalist and the Dreamer: Paul Holdengraber in conversation with David Lynch
"His insistence that Lynch report, describe and theorize about things–the things he has made, but also the things he loves–the paintings of Hopper and Bacon, the music of Kanye West and Jimi Hendrix–made the whole event feel more like an art school crit than a conversation."
http://www.themediares.com/pages/parlance/you-dont-say.html
In a talk he gave at the University of Toronto in 1959 on Communication Media, the all-divining media theorist Marshall McLuhan said that ?the so-called meaning [of an artwork] is a way of lowering your guard so the form can work upon you.? And so it goes that assigning ?meaning? to a work of art, w…
A few words from TMR on David Lynch's recent appearance at BAM:
"But when all the questions, quotations, paintings, and musical scores cast out by the formidable theory-packing Holdengräber began to seem like little more than b***y traps set to pigeonhole Lynch into declaring just such a final verdict, it was difficult not to, as Piepenbring put it, “break into boisterous applause” with every one of Lynch’s hackneyed phrases or uses of the word “beautiful.”"
http://www.themediares.com/pages/parlance/you-dont-say.html
In a talk he gave at the University of Toronto in 1959 on Communication Media, the all-divining media theorist Marshall McLuhan said that ?the so-called meaning [of an artwork] is a way of lowering your guard so the form can work upon you.? And so it goes that assigning ?meaning? to a work of art, w…
Odd Flower
"Refusing to make money off your own data might be as political an act as refusing to drive a car or eat meat."
http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/520426/the-real-privacy-problem/
As Web companies and government agencies analyze ever more information about our lives, it’s tempting to respond by passing new privacy laws or creating mechanisms that pay us for our data. Instead, we need a civic solution, because democracy is at risk.
"The obvious point is that the entire venture of the colonists was fundamentally capitalist in its inception, and that it was the Massachusetts Bay Company, a sort of seventeenth-century equivalent of a modern corporation, that had imposed the original charter on the colonists, essentially making them “wage slaves” of the company."
TMR contributor, Fr. Aaron Taylor for Red Egg Review
http://www.redeggreview.org/common-vs-private-good-in-plymouth-colony-a/
FDA for TMR, on the "foolishness" of Holy Russia:
"He prostrates himself before her, identifying Russia at last as one of that most Eastern brood of saints, the Fools-for-Christ, whose baffling and often, to all appearances, insane and immoral behavior is but a ruse to conceal their holiness and virtue and to preserve their humility."
http://www.themediares.com/pages/theologoumena/holy-russia.html
The Queen of the Sciences has been in exile. The editors seek proposed submissions that replant the seeds of humanism in the soil of Gospel. How to trivialize the logic of Wall Street with economies of eternity? How to re-enchant mind and matter with mystery? How to name the Other with mystical prec...
"you homeless, wanton, drunken Russia—fool in Christ." by m.e.g
Father Deacon Aaron Taylor for TMR-- on the enigma of Holy Russia:
'The existence of that “Holy Russia,” if it can be doubted as we look upon that age when the domes and crosses of churches dominated the skylines of Russian cities, when the monasteries flourished, when the tsars were anointed and crowned in the cathedrals of the Kremlin, is surely proved whenever she willingly undertook suffering and death for the sake of Christ and for the sins of her children.'
http://www.themediares.com/pages/theologoumena/holy-russia.html
The Queen of the Sciences has been in exile. The editors seek proposed submissions that replant the seeds of humanism in the soil of Gospel. How to trivialize the logic of Wall Street with economies of eternity? How to re-enchant mind and matter with mystery? How to name the Other with mystical prec...
"Shall I dare cast a stone at you?
Shall I condemn your wild and passionate flame?
Shall I not bow down before you with my face in the mud,
blessing the trace of your bare foot,
you homeless, wanton, drunken
Russia—fool in Christ" - Maximilian Voloshin
So Proud!
WELCOME PROFESSOR GAELEN GILBERT
The College takes pride in welcoming Assistant Professor Gaelan Gilbert (University of Victoria) to the Department of English Language and Literature. He joins the full-time faculty on September 1st. While at Victoria, he served as Editor for the University of Victoria CSRS journal Illumine and co-founder of the University of Victoria Research Collective, Seminarium. While at Point Loma Nazarene University, he served as Curriculum Coordinator for the PLNU Study Abroad Program, Euroterm. His awards include the Vanderkerkhove Fellowship, Center for Studies in Religion and Society (CSRS), University of Victoria, The Howard J. Petch Research Scholarship, The William and Doreen Kerby Scholarship in Medieval British Literature, The Donald Wagg Graduate Scholarship, The Alexander and Helen Stafford MacCarthy Muir Graduate Scholarship, The University of Victoria Alumni Association Graduate Award, and the University of Victoria Doctoral Fellowship. In addition to contributed book chapters and conference presentations, his scholarly work has been published in The Sixteenth-Century Journal, International Journal of Orthodox Theology, and LORE: Rhetoric, Writing, and Culture. Please join us in welcoming Professor Gilbert!
How does a literary historian end up thinking in terms of z-scores, principal component analysis, and clustering coefficient?
Verso Books is the largest independent, radical publishing house in the English-speaking world.
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Yet another must-read from The New Inquiry:
"Knowingness is the attitude that allows sexism to persist in progressive institutions that you would expect to know better, precisely because you would. When casual sexism pervades leftist theory, one assumes it is ironic; when progressive institutions ignore gender politics, one assumes this is because struggles for equality have already been won, or must be deferred so we can attend to more pressing political needs. Intellectuals tend to show class allegiance, bracketing or ignoring casual sexism in their own circles. They project misogyny outward, onto Middle America megachurches and racialized others, or onto the powerful men that pander to those masses."
http://thenewinquiry.com/essays/further-materials-toward-a-theory-of-the-man-child/
Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child By Moira Weigel and Mal Ahernimage by imp kerrLeft theory’s response to the feminization of labor has been to cry for mommyVirginia Woolf pointed out in A Room of One’s Own that, for most of history, if a piece of writing was signed “Anonymous,” it...
TMR contributor, Alyssa McLeod and editor, Emily Smith collaborate for the International Journal of Learning and Media: http://ijlm.net/node/13300
Motivated by the combination of knowing and doing in humanities curricula, this piece gives audiences a concrete sense of teaching and learning multimodal communications at the graduate level. Together with seven example prompts and multiple student responses to each, the piece also includes student...
" This tale of Impressionistic experiments in paintings deploys a kaleidoscopic approach, intertwining art forms, texts, and clothing, which actually creates a lucid story of how fashion, art, and commerce conspired to define the art and experience of modernity." Adele Barclay for TMR: http://www.themediares.com/pages/artifacts/impressionism-to-punk.html
Objects act upon us yet can do without us; they alter our intentions yet plead for good use. The editors seek proposed submissions that discuss or investigate our constant arrangement amidst objects. Made or unmade; digital or analog; filmed or framed; animal, vegetable, mineral; solid, liquid, gas....
Instagram is turning children, like 5-year-old Alonso Mateo, into sartorial monsters--pint-sized incarnations of their parents' materialistic aspirations. http://on.tnr.com/14vk4Ll (Photo via Alonso Mateo's Instagram account)
"And with regard to cases of cultural appropriation, there are more offensive and questionable displays than doc martin boots standing still." http://www.themediares.com/pages/artifacts/impressionism-to-punk.html
"Just as taxidermy represents a colonial desire for mastery over nature, preserved clothing items accepted into the museum tantalizingly present a fallacy of their histories as finite." http://www.themediares.com/pages/artifacts/impressionism-to-punk.html
Objects act upon us yet can do without us; they alter our intentions yet plead for good use. The editors seek proposed submissions that discuss or investigate our constant arrangement amidst objects. Made or unmade; digital or analog; filmed or framed; animal, vegetable, mineral; solid, liquid, gas....
"Impressionism and Punk make unlikely bedfellows." An exquisite analysis by Adèle Barclay of two of last month's overlapping fashion exhibits at the Met: http://www.themediares.com/pages/artifacts/impressionism-to-punk.html
Objects act upon us yet can do without us; they alter our intentions yet plead for good use. The editors seek proposed submissions that discuss or investigate our constant arrangement amidst objects. Made or unmade; digital or analog; filmed or framed; animal, vegetable, mineral; solid, liquid, gas....
lady with the finger
le dejeuner sur l'herbe
Get it while it's hot. Friend of and contributor to TMR, The Frailest Thing, publishes a book of essays on technology and culture: https://gumroad.com/l/UQBM
The Tourist and the Pilgrim is a collection of essays exploring the character of life in a digital age. Selections included examine the history and ethics of technology, technology's relationship to memory and the body, the experience of an always-connected life, and more. They draw on a variety of…
Old Europe’s contribution to the future: Verso Books http://t.co/B4dHpiaeHR
A Latin empire against the German dominance? The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben explains his much-discussed thesis. Apparently, he had been misunderstood. Professor Agamben, when you floated the idea in March of a ‘Latin imperium’ against Germanic domination in Europe, could you have imagined t...
non-sad militancy: Punctum Books http://t.co/bpSSCnr1Ef
I am just returned from the annual meeting of the Cultural Studies Association in Chicago [23-25 May 2013], where I was asked to deliver plenary remarks on Publics and Publications for Cultural Studies, and so I thought I would share those remarks here. I shared the plenary with Ted Striphas and Mar...
Religion in human evolution: The Hedgehog Review http://t.co/xKaHA3J4KZ
The Hedgehog Review - Volume 14, No. 2 (Summer 2012) - A Conversation with Robert Bellah
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