Digital Archive For Chinese Studies

I thought I would post on something slightly outside of my comfort zone. After visiting China almost over 4 years ago now it is interesting to be reconnected to it via this interesting archive of Chinese experimental poetry. The scans from the Not-Not (+ Critiques) section are very exciting visualy, to say the least. "Here you will find illustrations that I feel complement China’s Second World of Poetry: The Sichuan Avant-Garde, 1982-1992, recently published on this site. Aside from scanning materials directly related to the book’s subject, I have included out-of-province journals, which are prominently referred to in the text or to which Sichuan’s poets contributed during the period in question." "An anthology of the translated work of 20 poets - most of them not from Sichuan - will soon appear on this site as well. This will primarily consist of work written during the years 1982-1992, and allow readers to gain a better appreciation of the overall mainland-Chinese ‘avant-garde’ poetry scene throughout the country at the time. Some of the photos appearing here are in anticipation of this publication." Link

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Anarcho Capitalism

"Anarcho-capitalism (often considered a form of market anarchism) advocates the elimination of the state; the provision of law enforcement, courts, national defense, and all other security services by voluntarily-funded competitors in a free market rather than by taxation; the complete deregulation of nonintrusive personal and economic activities; and a self-regulated market. Anarcho-capitalists argue for a society based in voluntary trade of private property (including money, consumer goods, land, and capital goods) and services in order to maximize individual liberty and prosperity, but also recognize charity and communal arrangements as part of the same voluntary ethic.[1] Though anarcho-capitalists are known for asserting a right to private (individualized/non-public) property, non-state common property can also exist in an anarcho-capitalist society.[2] For them, what is important is how property is acquired and transferred; they believe the only just way to acquire property is through voluntary trade, gift, or labor-based original appropriation, rather than through aggression or fraud." Link

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Welcome to the world of Heidi Kumao

Heidi Kumao's incisive feminist practice currently investigates the RFID tags that industry is adopting for product tracking, the government for border control and public libraries for automatic checkout. Here is the Linkto the home page of her web site. Here is the Link to the specific project Zapped a project about RFID technology.

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Two New Blogs To Plug Into

Horit Herman-Peled: is a media artist, theorist, and feminist activist in Tel Aviv, who teaches art and digital culture at Talpiyot College, Tel Aviv, and at the Art Institute, Oranim College, Kiryat Tivon, Israel Link Brooke Singer (US) is a Brooklyn-based digital media artist and arts organizer. A member of Preemptive Media, her most recent collaborations, both as an artist and curator, utilize wireless as tools for initiating discussion and positive system failures. Link Both these links were found on the incredibly exciting site Empyre Guests. Link

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West End Lane Books

This is an unusual and unrequested plug for West End Lane Books, the book shop is managed by the poet Graeme Estry who has read at Openned in the past. The book shop has one of the best poetry selections out of any book shop I have visited in London. If retail therapy has to take place, do it here! Link

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Is Poetry the News?: The Poethics of the Found Text

Here follows a link to an article by Jena Osman that Graeme Estry found for me on Jacket Magazine it is an interesting read and well worth some time. Link

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DIE FAMILIE SCHNEIDER

As far as I can work out, I don't think this art work is accessable any more, however, I maybe wrong. Even reading the documentation is enough to provoke the synapses into a fit; a disturbing peace/piece, a dispruption of external/internal space. DIE FAMILIE SCHNEIDER - AN ART HOUSE OF FEAR IN WHITECHAPEL GREGOR SCHNEIDER Die Familie Schneider "In two unremarkable houses in London's East End, Gregor Schneider constructed a remarkable new work, Die Familie Schneider. 14 and 16 Walden Street were identical in every way. They had the same rooms and furnishings with the same cracks and stains, inhabited by the same families doing the same, unseemly things." Link Link And documentation from another work Link

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American Poets in the 21st Century: The New Poetics

From How2 updates: American Poets in the 21st Century: The New Poetics edited by Claudia Rankine and Lisa Sewell Link What are readers to make of the lament that the field of poetry is in crisis? Or the statement that poetry as a genre no longer "matters"? Readers are left to sort through the avant-garde and mainstream, the traditional and experimental, trying to figure out what poetry, if any, defines our current epoch. With the release of AMERICAN POETS IN THE 21ST CENTURY: THE NEW POETICS, editors Claudia Rankine and Lisa Sewell counter such negative views and confusion by documenting the advent of a poetry that is vital and varied in both its style and subject. AMERICAN POETS IN THE 21ST CENTURY collects thirteen significant voices from a new generation of poets. In addition to the poems, Rankine and Sewell have included brief statements from each poet, along with thirteen critical essays that provide an historical context and analysis of the ways the specific work alters and extends the understanding of what the new American poetries can look, feel, and sound like. Accompanying the book is a CD that contains readings from each of the poets. Additional recordings from the poets will be at www.wesleyan.edu/wespress/americanpoets by July 1st. Contributing poets include Joshua Clover, Stacy Doris, Peter Gizzi, Kenneth Goldsmith, Myung Mi Kim, Mark Levine, Tracie Morris, Mark Nowak, D.A. Powell, Juliana Spahr, Karen Volkman, Susan Wheeler, and Kevin Young. Claudia Rankine is a professor of English at Pomona College. She is the author of four poetry books, including Don't Let Me Be Lonely (2004), and co-editor of American Women Poets in the 21st Century (2002). Lisa Sewell is a professor of English at Villanova University and the author of two poetry books, the most recent of which is Name Withheld (2006). PLEASE CONTACT US FOR A REVIEW COPY or TO SEE A PDF SAMPLE FROM THE BOOK Contact: Stephanie Elliott Wesleyan University Press 215 Long Lane Middletown, CT 06459 (860) 685-7723 selliott@wesleyan.edu Please visit our new Web site: www.wesleyan.edu/wespress American Poets in the 21st Century: The New Poetics edited by Claudia Rankine and Lisa Sewell 416 pp., CD, 6 x 9", Accompanying web site $75.00 unjacketed cloth EAN: 978-0-8195-6727-7 ISBN: 0-8195-6727-2 $27.95 paper EAN: 978-0-8195-6728-4 ISBN: 0-8195-6728-0 Publication Date: July 9, 2007

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Urban Eyes (More RFID and PIGEONS)

Let me preface this post by saying that this is a really funny but important investigation: "URBAN EYES is a critical design concept combining RFID technology, CCTV cameras and pigeons to create a unique service for urban spaces. This Blog is a documentation of the project's development and related issues and articles list." Link Enjoy!

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Extract from Bob Dollop by Robert Pennebaker

'Gaby Jenkins had hands like tectonic plates, grinding through meetings, earthquakes of maoeuvered fluidic clicking fingers booming in the hollow space. Salmon fillet cheeks, levelled timbre, rock cake eyes, loss for the ability to get wet, now a volcano of wanton, violent self-oppression, hovering to explode like a geyser over a geezer wielding a cucumber of girth.' - Alex 'Lenny Spinks was a man, once a woman, now a man, a zucchini, botched surgery in a back alley slum, Scarface types counterfeiting laundered money buy pickle jar penises and tarnished scalpels. He spanked Gaby Jenkins for the possibility of their double-barrelled name: Spinks-Jenkins, the moan of a glory spurt, passport eligible semi-portmanteau, indulging in bastardisations: Spenkins, Jinks, Spenjinks. Today is Big Idea day. He has a big idea; it gobbles saliva.' 'He makes something of nothing, she laughs, he's a million dollar-sex beast, roaming carpet-tiled floors for spores and sustenance, a gold-toothed romp daddy 'cause his molars just gone melted away with that sugar he's been poofing. A quick window ledge glance ensures his beamer remains unscathed by youth puke and melting dogs, the child seat fastened, a brace, strait-jacket, combination reminder.' 'He makes something of nothing, she laughs, she's a rapscallion, a whore, scapegoat for cock orgies, a blue whale's mouth, beached, dry, barren, maybe he can jump start her in his beamer, mop up the sick and doberman piss and you've got yourself a night in, out, in, out, in, out, - this shit's stitched leather, optional extra, the car? A giant fist firing ash out of a cannon and prescription medication, the click of the child safety cap on her arthritic fingers, insipid blind panic no longer works or fears its own work.'

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