Kit Robinson on Larry Eigner August 16, 2008

In Eigner, the desire to know anchors itself in the discrete particular, recording sense data in an empiricism derived from Williams, Pound, and Olson, then stretches itself by a series of shifts of attention, to create an arching figure for knowledge. The shapes those figures take are products of an insistent, restless movement on the [...]

Journalists cheat death in Georgia August 15, 2008

Stanley Kubrick’s Boxes August 14, 2008

August 14, 2008

GETTING A HOLD
The foreign objects are related to the accent
adopted on moving to the coast or the slang she picked up later
slung across the countertop or the glassy essence she was
drinking from a transparent object she got in a pawnshop
which defines what it’s like to hold a cup.
Or water running through one’s hands.
She meant to [...]

Who got Georgia into this? August 14, 2008

Moscow will stop pummeling Georgia when it decides the Georgians have truly been punished enough. And this being the real world, punishment will rain down on the pawns — but those who egged them on (to score political points, seek power or gain profit) will, of course, face no punishment at all.
Rosa Brooks at [...]

All one sentence August 14, 2008

If China becomes as the US is today in world-power terms – which it will: get the Mandarin textbooks out folks – yet keeps its current regime and outlook, US history will look like a legend of saints. That is why the pressure has to be kept up on China to reform its political institutions [...]

The Front-Runner’s Fall August 12, 2008

by Joshua Green
Two things struck me right away.  The first was that, outward appearances notwithstanding, the campaign prepared a clear strategy and did considerable planning.  It sweated the large themes (Clinton’s late-in-the-game emergence as a blue-collar champion had been the idea ll along) and the small details (campaign staffers in Portland, Oregon, kept tabs on [...]

A Midrashic Chain : Deixis August 8, 2008

Taking all this into consideration I still, like you, see the line break as the one thing that separates poetry from prose if we take the line break to be an enforced segmentivity that does not follow the laws of grammar and syntax. Thus the new sentence would be poetic in the same way that [...]

Offshore Drilling and Energy Conservation: The Relative Impact on Gas Prices August 7, 2008

Senater McCain recently proposed opening up environmentally sensitive offshore zones to drilling in response to the recent jump in oil and gas prices. He argues that increased offshore production will reduce dependence on foreign oil, in addition to lowering gas prices.
However, the Energy Information Agency (EIA) projects that Senator McCain’s proposal would have no [...]

Global Pharmacy/Global Warming June 30, 2008

The distinction I am proposing here knows one canonical form in Hegel’s differentiation of the thinking of individual morality or moralizing (Moralitat) from that whole very different realm of collective social values and practices (Sittlichkeit).  But it finds its definitive form in Marx’s demonstration of the materialist dialectic, most notably in those classic pages of [...]