tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3803322100561501381.post4324679471251066025..comments2023-05-30T22:18:00.007+12:00Comments on A Pelt, a shrub, a soil sample: Pierre Joris: a Poetic of NomadismRoss Brightonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04917759678804057979noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3803322100561501381.post-50889808074206325352009-10-22T15:33:32.308+13:002009-10-22T15:33:32.308+13:00Any writer enacts theory in the act of writing, an...Any writer enacts theory in the act of writing, and any reader enacts criticsm in the act of reading.<br /><br />That's the most beautiful thing I've seen all day.<br /><br />If every teacher doesn't use that in their classroom...Farrah Fieldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03125579159243605833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3803322100561501381.post-54854297889776196662009-10-21T13:22:49.850+13:002009-10-21T13:22:49.850+13:00As with everything, there are parts that don't...As with everything, there are parts that don't gel with me - that construction of an eros/nike, even if it is somewhat expunged in the same paragraph - the 'deconstuction' (if one can even call it that) is Aristotlian, where i would rather see them as engaged is some post-Janus-faced state of eternal flux and intermingling.<br /><br />Which brings me to the second point - the throwaway line describing "the critic/theorist [as] the dog that barks as the caravan passes" - the duality constructed here between poet and critic/theorist is, i think, just as unfounded as the earlier one. Any writer enacts theory in the act of writing, and any reader enacts criticsm in the act of reading. Better to be aware of these processes, and be able to put them to use - arms for the "war machine".Ross Brightonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04917759678804057979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3803322100561501381.post-62624682483210032362009-10-21T12:14:42.030+13:002009-10-21T12:14:42.030+13:00Furthermore, having obliged us with The Need for R...Furthermore, having obliged us with The Need for Roots and being dead beyond doubt, Simone Weil is neither watching this nor laughing. <br /><br />I hope you have recovered from the wet ticket that was Dimmer, as they seem to have been getting.Robert McLeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07205964220432975351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3803322100561501381.post-9258807029719611762009-10-21T11:46:58.032+13:002009-10-21T11:46:58.032+13:00No, Empedoklean terms or reveries may not be taken...No, Empedoklean terms or reveries may not be taken as valid.Robert McLeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07205964220432975351noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3803322100561501381.post-64038957092554154012009-10-19T21:00:10.013+13:002009-10-19T21:00:10.013+13:00It's great stuff. Kafka: Towards a Minor Liter...It's great stuff. Kafka: Towards a Minor Literature is amazing.Ross Brightonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04917759678804057979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3803322100561501381.post-32299725301789840042009-10-19T20:05:10.564+13:002009-10-19T20:05:10.564+13:00Deleuze and Guttari may have come up in English or...Deleuze and Guttari may have come up in English or Art History class at some point, but I don't remember for sure. I did however get out a Deleuze book from the library the other week so I am quite interested in reading some more of them.Andreahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01931148046937718412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3803322100561501381.post-66171205893441231642009-10-19T19:22:22.398+13:002009-10-19T19:22:22.398+13:00Nomadism, Lines of flight, the plane of immanence,...Nomadism, Lines of flight, the plane of immanence, deterritorialisation, etc are all terms from Gilles Deleuze (& Felix Guattari), if you're interested.Ross Brightonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04917759678804057979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3803322100561501381.post-15226182618985408242009-10-19T19:19:47.556+13:002009-10-19T19:19:47.556+13:00As manifestos go this one is great - a line of fli...As manifestos go this one is great - a line of flight, a becoming and "space is the place". Something that references Sun Ra, Paul Celan and Jack Kerouac has got to be fairly interesting in my book.Andreahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01931148046937718412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3803322100561501381.post-1490547012520231712009-10-19T17:23:17.399+13:002009-10-19T17:23:17.399+13:00I haven't read a lot, though I'm keen to c...I haven't read a lot, though I'm keen to check out his Celan translations. Though they'd he hard pressed to beat Hamburger's later ones, and John Felsteiner's are great too.Ross Brightonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04917759678804057979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3803322100561501381.post-48875589945109790812009-10-19T16:46:05.015+13:002009-10-19T16:46:05.015+13:00Yeah, a read his other book (which may cantain thi...Yeah, a read his other book (which may cantain this same essay) "A Nomad Poetics," a few years ago. Tis good, but prefer Joris manefestos/essays to his actual poetry, sadly.Jared Wellshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03691174870653469974noreply@blogger.com