Archivio mensile:Agosto 2007

Linh Dinh on Italian blogs

Thanks to Linh Dinh, who writes a quick but sharp portrait of the situation of lit blogs in Italy: here in International Exchange for Poetic Invention.

It’s a “cursory view” – he says. But it also suggests an interesting comparison between .it blogs and .us ones, focused on the dominant role of criticism in American sites, whereas the Italian webpages seem to be basically laboratories, and places of/for creative attempts.

[ I add a footnote to say that serious criticism is quite absent from l(.it)blogs; and it seems to me that when it sometimes  appears it punctually lacks either method and brilliance and wit = taste for (and power of) comparison –and this also reflects a sad general crisis in the academic world, maybe ]

new things

 

a little series called new tools to fight disease is now up at forward/text. thanks to jukka-pekka kervinen for having appreciated and published it.

many thanks also to adam fieled, who published in his mag p.f.s. post three pieces from the series first platform 2.

:)

also: new audio experiments are in http://sayingsome.blogspot.com/ – and differx, as usual.

 

VANGUARDENING / Reed Altemus and David-Baptiste Chirot

 

vanguardening

VANGUARDENING

by Reed Altemus and David-Baptiste Chirot

Tonerworks edition

A note from David (see his web page):

This is a project Reed invited me to do with him a few–I think two– summers ago. After I sent in my contributions, he copied them–copier art is a great love of Reed’s, which he practices and is doing continual studies into the art and history of it–and then proceeded to cut up and collage the pieces with additions of his own. I think it came out to be a very fascinating little Visual Poetry book, a series of meditations on the theme and imagery of Death and murder in the poetry of Francois Villon, with moving through it another current, the word/theme of “flow”.

“Flow’ in turn leads one back to a sense of “Flux” as in the Fluxus world Reed and I have both been participating in for many years now.

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Copies are available here:

Tonerworks

P.O.Box 52

Portland, ME

04112 USA