Blandiloquent

Off Site - Occupied MLA - Sat 7 Jan 730p

2011-12-31T18:14:00.000-08:00

MLA off-site reading▶ Saturday, January 7, 7:30 pm

Reading Like A Loser

2011-11-16T00:00:00.001-08:00

-after Malcolm Bull's Where is the Anti-NietzscheIncompatible with myself I agree Memory gets in the way The best path is to talk and listen at the same time To hear oneself toast the death of heroic memory Refusing to stand in the empty space My ears disclose their up-ended discard Descartes’ ball of wax that separates as it morphs Into an abandoned event at the opening gate I

White Days (the after draft) - for Curtis Taylor

2011-10-09T10:50:00.000-07:00

"A gun is fired in tonight's performance" I take this pool cue from the program Each propped up and alone on the slippery slope 10 minutes? Yes, an intermission but the entire play releases us It's all transitional space rich layers of intransigent scrim The object is to initiate prehensions subject to recognitions that track us We browse and swallow cookies

Two Minute Dance (for John Cage)

2011-09-05T21:39:00.000-07:00

Whose circus jerks to attention Of those so precariously concerned In this ring, in the grooves of this record A refusal to capture what Time's body disguised A precision meant to be obeyed As the open approaches others Based on an equal presumption His timing a cross between Buster Keaton and Beckett Yes. Comedy needs space – a precise place for delivery And film is such an

The Return Of Pedagogical Error

2011-09-01T08:33:00.000-07:00

This talk given at the Hedreen Gallery last Friday evening. Why error? When you think about the these two words, Autonomous and University, they seem like two bad ideas. Universal notions often end up making static rules. They want to destroy anything that challenges their authority – and to set up a world view or model, in pursuit of Truth – in effect denying the validity of all other

Labor Day & Night

2011-08-27T17:58:00.000-07:00

Essay published here a few days ago, at the Poetic Labor Project.

Portland War of Reading: The World Books of Louis CABRI, Donato MANCINI & Robert MITTENTHAL

2011-08-22T19:00:00.000-07:00

Poetry on the Piazza presents a reading by Louis CABRI, Donato MANCINI, Robert MITTENTHAL, who have new books titled Poetryworld, Buffet World and Wax World, respectively. The reading starts at 7:00pm on Monday the 22nd of August 2011. Free -- Downtown Portland, Oregon. Outside at @font-face { font-family: "Times New Roman"; }@font-face { font-family: "Arial"; }@font-face {

730p Reading at Spoken Word Lab: Cabri, Mancini, Mittenthal

2011-08-21T19:30:00.000-07:00

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Don Mee Choi

2011-07-30T19:35:00.000-07:00

Heard Don Mee read last night at Hedreen Gallery and realized that in lieu of a full review (sorry!) of The Morning News Is Exciting (Action Books, 2010), I should post this old introduction to a reading in mid-2009. My response to the earlier reading was a strong sense of how her translation work was interwined with her own poems, how they feed off each other. It felt like a demonstration of

Bolano's 2666 and Ranciere's Ignorant Schoolmaster

2011-06-14T22:14:00.000-07:00

Working my way into Jacques Ranciere's Nights of Labor, and came across this text written maybe six months ago on the parallels between 2666 and The Ignorant Schoolmaster, which may be of interest, even though it is probably guilty of being an explication. Ranciere's Ignorant Schoolmaster first appeared in French in 1987. Ranciere reviews the career and thinking of Joseph Jacotot, a french

Keith Tilford | Collapse

2011-05-26T21:47:00.000-07:00

A congealed network of the undead. It wants to rip us to pieces... This beautiful piece by Tilford is available as part of the Urbanomic's Summer Auction, which runs from 26 May - 24 June. All proceeds of the auction go to support Urbanomic's journal Collapse. The lots – including original work and exclusive signed editions – have been generously donated by artists, musicians and writers who

Waxed & Buffed

2011-05-09T08:03:00.000-07:00

A reprise of the double book launch, with both video and audio files, is available here, via the fantastical Greg Bem. John Olson's review of Wax World: here. And the Stranger's book editor, who (just like me) will never be Walt Whitman, reviews a trio of books, including Nico Vassilakis's staring@poetics: here. ps.. Mark Wallace's review here. Greg Bem's here.

Wax Buffet: Double Book Launch

2011-05-03T20:00:00.000-07:00

Robert Mittenthal * Wax World * Chax Press Donato Mancini * Buffet World * New Star Books with film from Brandon Downing Tuesday 3 May 8pm Gallery 1412 1412 18th Ave (just north of Union) - Seattle WA ===================== WAX WORLDRobert Mittenthal116 pagesChax Press Robert Mittenthal is author of Value Unmapped (Nomados), Martyr Economy, Ready Terms (Tsunami Editions), and

Mission Impossible -- with Alain Badiou

2011-03-30T14:53:00.000-07:00

It is not often than a momentous Badiouian event occurs. And the recent events in Tunisian & Egypt are all the more amazing for their spontaneity. This is your mission should you choose to accept it. All that is solid melts into air. Badiou's (somewhat utopian) goal is to follow the "destiny of an event" to solve "unsolvable problems without the help of the state..." [All quotations here

Boykoff on 2010 Vancouver Winter Games in NLR

2011-03-06T22:53:00.000-08:00

In a new article in New Left Review, Jules Boykoff traces the genesis of the relations between Olympic sport and Capital. Detailing the political economic contexts of the Vancouver Winter Olympics, where disproportionate long and short term public expenditures are made and short term profits privatized, Boykoff notes how this leads to government deficits and severe cuts to social programmes.

The Subject of the Subject

2011-02-19T09:20:00.000-08:00

Learning to unravel, let’s start at the end: chasing intensity beyond or before recognition; thinking with the unknowns and bearing witness to intersections of nature and culture. Attached to our surrounds and divorced from habit We demand the right to contradict ourselves A noun’s noun, we verb – in transit Oh, how the world breeds inferiority In pursuit of a lexicon’s indifference

Blind Luck -- Cris Bruch at Lawrimore Project

2011-02-18T08:57:00.000-08:00

Reposted from here. Show is up at Lawrimore Project thru 27 Feb. Mallarmé was mathematically correct: A throw of the dice will never abolish chance. That is, chance is never retrospective. It would be like me saying that the odds of writing this sentence here and now were 10 million to one. Prospectively, the artistic process yields unexpected results. What really matters is how something

Working Day (from no walking it back)

2010-12-20T16:26:00.000-08:00

So that the acculturated Cherokee breathes As the aforementioned men go off in open air To be entertained, to evade the footpads Vandals and thieves Unclimbable steeps A mass of white haired sheep Their restless education Fingers bent back to claws As hours condensed and bred fears In those freed yet unable to sell their freedom Each compelled to each – to follow steam Empowered in the

Music has an answer

2010-11-07T13:35:00.000-08:00

- after Donato Mancini What's the use dot dot dot Information or Manic prolusions in the click track It was better at the back of the room clowning or at the front churning heads first The moral of the story is never affective Affect hijacked by mores equals jaded judgement the stickiness of burnt marshmallow I prefer the notion of a precognitive aesthetics before the ethical turn

Ball & Chain

2010-10-11T09:13:00.000-07:00

Written as a backdrop or voiceover for World C. Speculations on the place of labor: a ball and chain People “will ﬁght for their servitude as if for salvation” – Spinoza It is the fault of my foot – attached to its problem The motion away or within or beyond those bounds The fault is in the foot – suspension before an arrow’s release Death by 1000 touches The fabrication of meadow:

Against Explanation

2010-09-26T13:31:00.000-07:00