Weekend Reading List
From socially engaged poetry to matters of style: what to read this weekend
From socially engaged poetry to matters of style: what to read this weekend
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‘What if we asked of theory as a genre that it be as interesting, as strange, as poetically or narratively as rich as we ask our poetry or fiction to be?’ – McKenzie Wark on capitalism and language
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The Bauhaus, Black Mountain College and the American avant garde
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‘In a time of frontal assaults both on language and on human solidarity, poetry can remind us of all we are in danger of losing—disturb us, embolden us out of resignation.’ – on the socially engaged poetry of Adrienne Rich
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Formal matters: Giorgio Agamben on the ontology of style
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Who are you really? The late Jenny Diski on identity and The Three Christs of Ypsilanti
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How can we separate science from colonial power? This reading list might be a good place to start
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Judith Butler on how the legal battle over Kafka’s estate raised questions of national identity and the legitime statehood
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Christian Lorentzen on dropping the adverb
