Document 93: Global Ideation
The global circulation of ideas advances with the publication of the Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures, vol. 5, no. 1, edited by Laurie Scheyer from Hunan Normal University. As with last year’s...
View ArticleArchive 15: The Currency of History
In Questions of Poetics, I wrote that, in contrast to André Breton’s motto “I seek the gold of time,” what I wanted is more like the “currency of history.” All this bears on the question of value, of...
View ArticleDocument 99: Making Modernism
“Modernist Poetics: New Genealogies of ‘Making the Work’ in Modernity” Seminar for “Making Modernism” Modernist Studies Association Portland, Ore., 27–30 October 2022 Organized by Lyn Hejinian, UC...
View ArticleEvent 97: Transpositions @ EAM
“Transpositions: Global Poetics @ EAM 2022” Readings by Kazim Ali, Carla Harryman, Abigail Lang, Barrett Watten Saturday, September 3, 17:00 Bar Barraca-Cinearte, Lisbon, Portugal “Global Parataxis and...
View ArticleEvent 99: Questions of Value @ Louisville
Questions of Value: Rethinking the Discourse of Valuation in Literature and Art The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Saturday 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM Room: Humanities 109 Chair: Barrett...
View ArticleEvent 102: Can We Still Teach the Beats?
Can We Still Teach the Beats?: Holism, Antagonism, Poetics, and Pedagogy A talk by Barrett Watten Wednesday, April 26 WSU Humanities Center 12:30–1:30 PM, 2339 F/AB In person/Zoom (here) This talk...
View ArticleEvent 103: Poetry, Translation, Crisis
SESSION PROPOSAL WITHDRAWN Poetry, Translation, and Crisis: From the Post-Soviet Moment to War and Emigration American Comparative Literature Association Montréal, 14–17 March 2024 Due to the difficult...
View ArticleEntry 54: The Transmission of Poetry
MATERIAL TRANSMISSIONS: DEMOTIC SURREALISM/HIERATIC LANGUAGE, SAN FRANCISCO, 1975–1980 Plunged each day into the fog of received ideas, man is led to conceive of all things and to conceive of himself...
View ArticleEntry 55: Beginning Again and Again
Scaffolding Repetition: Gertrude Stein, Language Writing, Electronic Dance Music (online here) eLyra 22, special issue on “Poetics and Politics of Repetition,” ed. Bruno Ministro, 25 December 2023...
View ArticleEntry 56: A Poetics of Encounter
A Poetics of Encounter: Dialectic of Outside with the Beats Read at “Can We Teach the Beat Generation?” Discussion organized by Erik Mortenson and Tony Triglio Session 228, 5 January 2024, 10:15–11:30...
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