May 2011
47 posts
Parents keep child's gender secret →
Certainly a very interesting article, though I am still trying to suss out my own feelings about the issue. While attempting to raise a child free of any societally instilled gender norms is laudable, something about the valuation of “gender” - as a amorphous and abstract concept - above and beyond, while somehow subsuming, the physical factuality of “sex” seems a little...
Zoned In: Holy Other: With U →
The lovely folks over at Altered Zones have posted Holy Other’s new EP With U for streaming on their website ahead of its release on 7th June.
Their write up is more eloquent than anything I could say about the band and their sound, so I’ll just say that this sort of music that combines elements of R&B and darker electronic musics really hits a sweet spot for me in terms of my...
“What garment is adequate? Did we dream that the red pigment from the cloth...”
– Lisa Robertson from “The Value Village Lyric” in Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture.
Electric Kool-Aid Catharsis: Sufjan Stevens Live →
The Quietus give a good review of one of Sufjan’s recent live shows with a lot of thought about how his music and stage persona have evolved in time: from his ostensibly folksy roots to his current Tron-esque electronic psychedelia, from earnestly low-fi to neon day-glow.
“– I am like a slip of comet,
Scarce worth discovery, in some corner seen...”
– Gerard Manley Hopkins, “I am like a slip of comet” (from Selected Poetry)
The Death of the Text: Kenneth Goldsmith at the... →
A piece by Vanessa Place on the Harriet blog on whether or not the recent White House poetry reading was a significant aesthetic event and what one can take away from Kenneth Goldsmith’s reading at the event: the institutionalization of conceptualism, the death of the text, its reincarnation (or revelation) as machine of radical mimesis, and more. A little too harsh on the Lyric to my mind,...
“Poetry is consciousness dreaming of domicile at the core of the foreign world,...”
– Tim Lilburn from “How to Be Here?” in Living In the World As If It Were Home.
