Inter(re)view: I Burn Paris – A conversation with translator Soren A. Gauger.

Inter(re)view: I Burn Paris – A conversation with translator Soren A. Gauger.

I Burn Paris was written in a climate of uncertainty, nihilism, social and political upheaval, and precipitous change. The Great War had ended, the Bolsheviks were in power, Europe was…

Review of Eileen Myles’ INFERNO [A poet’s Novel]

Review of Eileen Myles’ INFERNO [A poet’s Novel]

How did I not know about Eileen Myles? An icon, a feminist, oh, a feminist icon? An activist. A New York person, a person of that city, who can’t make…

Dorothea Lasky: Three Poems

Dorothea Lasky: Three Poems

PEOPLE DO REALLY BAD THINGS People do really bad things But I don’t pay attention to most of them I knew that Alex was my real friend When he told…

Yekaterina Samutsevich: Closing Statement at the Pussy Riot Trial

Yekaterina Samutsevich: Closing Statement at the Pussy Riot Trial

by hecksinductionhour | August 8, 2012 · 7:40 pm Yekaterina Samutsevich: Closing Statement at the Pussy Riot Trial Yekaterina Samutsevich, defendant in the criminal case against the feminist punk group…

Ben Hynes on Erica Baum’s ‘Dog Ear’

Ben Hynes on Erica Baum’s ‘Dog Ear’

Embedded in our current moment is the unique opportunity to interrogate the manner in which we conceive of what it means to read. A materiality that was once self-evident –…

From the Office for Soft Architecture’s Department of Appliance Lore

Genius. More here. All good. What Does it Cost to Change the World? from WikiLeaks on Vimeo via Techpresident  –The Office for Soft Architecture, La Malgache, France

Michael Nardone: On Nora Fulton

—- What are the phonemes within phenomena? What is their speak and how are they sounded? How does a phrase issue outward from event? What is the name of the…

Michael Nardone: Some Versions of Furniture Music

Kenneth Goldsmith, on Satie: In the midst of an art opening at a Paris gallery in 1902, Ambient music was born. Erik Satie and his cronies, after begging everyone in…

From the Office for Soft Architecture’s Department of Appliance Lore

The woman who helped spark the revolution.For more on Asmaa Mahfouz.

A Conversation with Lisa Robertson

Michael Nardone: A lot of your work draws from an immediate environment, both landscape and peers. Thinking about where we are now—Open Space, an artist-run centre—and perhaps trying to locate…