David Auerbach
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Visuals - Waggish
Novalis: Monologue
The excellent piece on Novalis in this week’s TLS quoted a bit of his brilliant Monolog, and it’s short enough I figured I’d just post the whole thing here: Speaking and writing is a crazy ...
The Turin Horse
BERNHARD: Because everything’s in ruins. Everything’s been degraded, but I could say that they’ve ruined and degraded everything. Because this is not some kind of cataclysm, coming about with so-called innocent human aid. On the ...
Lyonel Feininger at the Whitney
The exhibit is a great one, even if it’s a bit small and shortchanges his late work and drawings (which I think have another exhibit devoted to them somewhere or other). I do love Feininger’s ...
A Retrospective of the Work of Christiane Paul: “Cory Arcangel: Pro Tools”
Here I present a tribute to the work of Christiane Paul currently on display in the Whitney Museum in her exhibit “Cory Arcangel: Pro Tools.”
Happy Bloomsday from James Joyce and Guy Davenport
Leopold Bloom reflected in John Ireland’s window, O’Connell Street, by Guy Davenport Wait. Five months. Molecules all change. I am other I now. Other I got pound. Buzz. Buzz. But I, entelechy, form of forms, ...
Xenakis’s Rebonds
Feldman: Do you think that some memories are better than other memories? I mean like in psychoanalysis: one goes there to free one-self of the memories that makes it impossible to live in reality, and ...
Wilson Knight’s Chart of Shakespeare’s Dramatic Universe
G. Wilson Knight was a mid-century critic probably most known for an infamous little essay on Hamlet he wrote in 1930 called “The Embassy of Death” (collected in The Wheel of Fire). The essay ...