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A Blogger’s Notebook 9
THE EXHIBITION After Kenneth Goldsmith* It was clear that the artist had gone mad when he began to mistake his tools for works of art. And yet, as is often the case, there were those willing to indulge his madness. Hangers-on who praised his insight into art’s dependence on mechanical processes. Gallery owners who displayed his palette knives, worn-out brushes, canvas stretchers, rags. Wealthy patrons who relished the adventure of investing in aesthetic futures.Read More
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A Blogger’s Notebook 8
THE PH.D.Read More
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Guilty
Ron Silliman tops his best in his latest blog post, in which he turns the smarmy politicking at Oxford into another intellectually dishonest brief against his fantasy nemesis, the School of Quietude. It’s fun, I admit, watching Captain Ron attempting to turn his horror over the political nature of the Padel-Walcott affair to his own poe(li)tical advantage. On the other hand, it’s sad to see him turning into PoBiz’s own Ann Coulter.Read More
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Quotable Me…
Thanks to Angela Genusa for quoting me on her blog and for posting a picture of me with some old friends, taken in another life. I’m the guy at the far end of the sluice, staring into a pan of glintless mud.* NOTE: For some reason Angela’s 01/08/09 post and its accompanying photo have disappeared from her blog.Read More
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Open and Closed: A Response to Adam Fieled
Adam Fieled over at Stoning the Devil is, in my humble estimation, one of the most thoughtful post-avant partisans on the Web. When I respectfully threw down a gauntlet in his comment stream, he thoughtfully took it up in a post that’s useful in a number of ways, not least in its listing of poets in the post-avant ballpark (at least by Adam’s lights). Best of all, he presents two poems by Mark Young as examples of what he sees as characteristic and strong post-avant work.Read More