Zeitgeist Spam: “some language practice” 5

09.04.2010

“some language practice” 5

Dream Mile Play Time
Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer
“The world consists of some fixed totality of mind-independent objects”
slap of a batting wind
word verification: tragista

        What is to be gained
        by addressing ourselves                          to the idea
of pure critique                  when it could plausibly be argued
that purity is the very problem             that critique must address?
        Has the laugh track disappeared               from television?

What horrifies so many who look back on the seventies
        is not so much what they wore
                                but the fact they desired to wear it
The bomb goes off in sentience
Complicities              had worked the / last / grammatical particle to a fine

powder between a migratory
and a metamorphic axis
You know I had my doubts about the word “odd”
A stone “crops up”
The sky is like a grater

[Note: I mixed this from “powder” up, then “powder” down. That’s how these sources are ordered. Sources: “new arrivals” etc.: Gustaf Sobin, “Of Air Augmented”, “From A Grammarian’s Fieldbook”, in Collected Poems; Clark Coolidge, “53. Rocky Point Overture”, in The Act of Providence; Gregory Dale Adamson, Philosophy in the Age of Science and Capital; JBR, thinking about his review of the Gurlesque; Iain MacKenzie, The Idea of Pure Critique; Blogger.com; Alice Notley, “Vicious Winds of Heaven’s Judgment”, in Reason and Other Women; Hilary Putnam, Reason, Truth, and History, as quoted in Lee Braver, A Thing of This World: A History of Continental Anti-Realism; Ian Bogost’s Latour Litany Generator, in his “Latour Litanizer”, at Ian Bogost Blog, 16 Dec 09; Catherine Malabou, Plasticity at the Dusk of Writing (tr. Carolyn Shread); Michel Foucault, “On Marguerite Duras, with Michel Foucault” (tr. Suzanne Dow), in Helene Cixous, White Ink: Interviews on Sex, Text and Politics (ed. Susan Sellers); Matthew Calarco, Zoographies: The Question of the Animal from Heidegger to Derrida; James Schuyler, “Chabrier”, in Other Flowers: Uncollected Poems (eds. James Meetze and Simon Pettet)]

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