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• ▶2010 (78)
  • ▼March (9)
    • march 5–march 10
    • claude lévi-strauss, "tristes tropiques"
    • the problem of health care
    • the problem with servants
    • march 1–march 4
    • gérard de nerval, "aurélia & other writings"
    • jules verne, "the green ray"
    • the finger on the text
    • february 21–28
  • ▶February (32)
    • the ivory tower
    • donald barthelme, "paradise"
    • pamela moore in the new york times
    • ads for pamela moore
    • noted
    • exodus 4:24–26
    • noted
    • edmund white, "city boy"
    • duchamp book design
    • on the silver globe
    • lucy ives, "anamnesis"
    • american gothic
    • noted
    • the marvelous city of the future
    • naming
    • february 16–20
    • february 11–february 15
    • geoff dyer, "yoga for people who can't be bothered to do it"
    • chris diken, "some people" / stan mir, "flight patterns"
    • noted
    • detail
    • the baffler #9: an injury to all
    • february 6–february 10
    • frederic tuten, "tintin in the new world"
    • noted
    • at the met
    • february 1–february 5
    • locus solus at the theatre antoine
    • learn to snap
    • éric rohmer, "six moral tales"
    • noted
    • january 26–january 31
  • ▶January (37)
    • the baffler #7: the city in the age of information
    • noted
    • january 21–january 25
    • george quasha's definitional videos
    • henry green predicts the future
    • henry green, "nothing"
    • the baffler #4: your lifestyle sucks!
    • out with horses
    • as if she were in at a kill
    • the baffler #8: the cultural miracle
    • january 16–january 20
    • a curse of our culture
    • noted, special all-joyce edition
    • la statue de la liberté
    • hugh kenner on guy davenport
    • head of a smiling woman
    • crayola color chart, 1903–2010
    • what would messaien say?
    • january 11–january 15
    • the baffler, vol. 2, no. 1: margin call
    • noted
    • from a bathroom in the guggenheim
    • plaisir d'amour in iran
    • oh emigre
    • the popularity of bolaño
    • january 6–january 10
    • stanley crawford, "mayordomo"
    • ray johnson & andy warhol
    • mcelroy on crawford
    • noted
    • january 1–january 5
    • eleanor antin, "historical takes"
    • a list
    • samuel r. delany, "the orchid"
    • my year in books, 2009
    • my year in film, 2009
    • my year in exhibits, 2009
• ▶2009 (288)
  • ▶December (16)
    • credo
    • december 26–december 31
    • noted
    • man as industrial palace
    • december 21–december 25
    • noted
    • december 16–december 20
    • december 11–december 15
    • december 6–december 10
    • the lack of common measure between the desires of individuals and the means to satisfy them
    • you'll get your tigers of wrath
    • december 2–december 5
    • the true cause of the collapse
    • quotation
    • november 26–december 1
    • female figurine (front & back)
  • ▶November (9)
    • november 22–november 25
    • amaryllis
    • pedro friedeberg: an introduction
    • november 18–november 21
    • november 6–november 17
    • what's water?
    • noted
    • october 31–november 5
    • l'amoroso menzogna
  • ▶October (20)
    • october 26–october 30
    • on returning
    • toive
    • faith, like a jackal
    • no better than a spacious kennel
    • october 21–october 25
    • pig 05049
    • noted
    • october 16–october 20
    • noted
    • october 11–october 15
    • as one single magazine
    • october 6–october 10
    • noted
    • joyce wept
    • noted
    • the only realistic artist
    • october 1–october 5
    • injured books
    • september 27–september 30
  • ▶September (36)
    • thinking about sermons
    • barthelme's sources
    • bewogen beweging
    • september 23–september 26
    • boetti/joyce
    • september 18–september 22
    • noted
    • white
    • david and bathsheba
    • keeping things whole
    • marked a long time ago 2
    • marked a long time ago 1
    • model shop
    • september 12–september 17
    • the decline of the west
    • token resistance
    • machines for reading
    • noted
    • paul dirac, 1907
    • september 7–september 11
    • the very same culture that had destroyed all reason for going from one place to another
    • porcini mushrooms
    • noted
    • red poppies
    • eggplants and pears
    • the real victims
    • roussel / duchamp / cortázar / fassio
    • recounted lear
    • noted
    • the rise of capitalism
    • september 1–september 6
    • love's photograph (or father and son)
    • noted
    • the printer's error
    • toynbee tile in philadelphia
    • august 26–august 31
  • ▶August (26)
    • sixty-three
    • duchamp/roussel/kafka
    • august 20–august 25
    • the truth about hunting in today's africa
    • a machine for reading hopscotch
    • origin of the mullet
    • selina swayne's floating books
    • st. luke drawing the virgin
    • the very notion of jackson heights
    • noted
    • firbank's juvenilia
    • 104 east 26th street
    • august 10–august 19
    • a syllogism worked out
    • noted
    • 62: a model kit
    • noted
    • alva noto, "unitxt"
    • tiptoe around it, and walk away
    • august 3–august 9
    • the book as a container of consciousness
    • re-reading
    • orality now
    • the wholesome atmosphere of american life
    • july 30–august 2
    • the problems of a lost canon
  • ▶July (20)
    • a view of new york
    • noted
    • july 26–july 29
    • anthropophagy
    • a dedication
    • everything passes & rereading
    • glitch manifesto
    • when to keep something hidden
    • july 21–july 25
    • noted
    • july 16–july 20
    • disclosure
    • felipe alfau interviewed by ilan stavans
    • noted
    • book i, chapter 5, pp. 112-117
    • july 13–july 15
    • july 8–july 12
    • duchamp/roussel/chess
    • chess beats art: the end of the blindman
    • june 28–july 7
  • ▶June (18)
    • june 22–june 27
    • dissimulation
    • cleaning up after the times
    • june 16–june 21
    • what is a designer?
    • book i, chapter 5, pp. 104-111
    • problems with pictures of horses
    • the book of lies
    • june 11–june 15
    • the life of flaubert
    • june 6–june 10
    • the genius of crime
    • june 1–june 5
    • the mere obstinacy of the self
    • fat man on a beach
    • and so it all ended
    • magic window
    • may 26–may 31
  • ▶May (19)
    • why blackletter
    • may 22–may 25
    • from "the tomb of stuart merrill"
    • xxxix. the mystery of things, where is it
    • now i must go to the bank
    • may 19–may 21
    • anyone can know about it nowadays
    • still life with flowers
    • plague in an ancient city
    • may 14–may 18
    • this page is the final print, music added
    • may 11–may 13
    • oh ruskin
    • the civil and jovial character of the piglings so nurtured
    • the perils of biography
    • may 6–may 10
    • may 1–may 6
    • what are legends a clarification
    • april 26–april 30
  • ▶April (46)
    • michael silverblatt on the end of books
    • are we very stupid?
    • the trouble with doctors
    • april 21–april 25
    • how shells work
    • the decay of morality is caused by the produce of the sea
    • the decay of science and the spread of avarice
    • still,
    • the truth about camels
    • previously men had lived on acorns
    • come on, ordinary man
    • sentence: the problem with the irish
    • morandi ii
    • with simic and marinetti at the giubbe rosse
    • i need to read pliny
    • april 16–april 20
    • down by the station, early in the morning
    • drunken americans
    • qualm
    • from “fantasia on ‘the nut-brown maid’”
    • from “pyrography”
    • (from canto 81)
    • april 12–april 15
    • dove sta memoria
    • (from canto 74)
    • the city
    • in the same space
    • oh, ezra!
    • the problem with tangerine
    • when staten island looked like the south of france
    • petting in the park
    • april 6–april 11
    • nouvelles impressions d'afrique
    • still waves of probability
    • train rising out of the sea
    • 23. we two—how long we were fool’d
    • from "the bungalows"
    • april 4–april 5
    • the double dream of spring
    • sonnet
    • meditations of a parrot
    • the hero
    • the bad end of marinetti
    • march 30–april 3
    • children who smoke
    • sonnet iv: in this city you didn't love
  • ▶March (27)
    • 153. catalonia – madonna and child (detail)
    • in texas
    • march 26–march 29
    • novel ii
    • march 23–march 25
    • would have been read by no one else, not even by the author
    • the shape of a city
    • believability
    • march 15–march 22
    • life, rowena
    • i have nothing but conflicts
    • the next time you're on this train
    • against my entire code
    • march 9–march 14
    • variously noted
    • god's interest in us might be aesthetic
    • march 5–march 8
    • you're so crazy
    • in the future
    • sentence
    • march 1–4
    • w/ moral
    • dro'medary. n.s.
    • the trouble with crocodiles
    • boundary issues
    • alphabetizing
    • february 25–february 28
  • ▶February (21)
    • troubles with materiality
    • volume
    • february 21–february 24
    • the mythology of the rich
    • like bread made with chemicals to keep it from perishing
    • february 15–february 20
    • alcove
    • that spiritual condition
    • february 12–february 14
    • all animals are expert
    • february 8–february 11
    • susan howe & david grubbs at the beinecke
    • thoroughly naive in their hopes
    • periander (628–588 bc)
    • february 2–february 7
    • a book is a box full of words
    • maps vs. blueprints
    • 153. finale
    • rather than flow-through
    • who will love nothing but a sylph
    • january 29–february 1
  • ▶January (30)
    • january 25–january 28
    • recapitulating duchamp
    • this "other tradition"
    • only the one way
    • for we judge not, lest we be judged
    • master of the hovering life
    • bit of a sight
    • antonello's jerome
    • january 19-january 24
    • 384.
    • ll. 1. f., among the angel's / hierarchies:
    • pointed boots
    • the lake of zürich
    • probable systems 24: physical contexts of human words
    • ghost ship
    • january 12–january 18
    • the logic of mysticism
    • vice interviews john calder
    • fake aura
    • will themselves to vanish
    • january 10–11
    • a part of a collage
    • names
    • january 4–january 9
    • all that language can do
    • the problem with filesystems
    • driving
    • january 1–january 3
    • vice interviews harold bloom
    • the flow of thought
• ▶2008 (128)
  • ▶December (21)
    • chapter 21
    • nuances
    • a short chronology of arson
    • bordando el manto terrestre
    • giotto's joachim
    • back to huizinga
    • a white bear
    • the subway seems sweet after that
    • statement
    • (name day)
    • (one)
    • u.s.
    • music
    • potential
    • haircuts
    • elvis was a hero to most / but he never meant shit to me
    • from "maldoror: tygers"
    • memorandum
    • silence
    • no touching
    • she admits she is stumped
  • ▶November (10)
    • not to frame, but to hide
    • jet lag
    • olga rudge, 1897
    • adorno is angry about the market
    • we first of all marched around the parking lot
    • incorruptibility
    • november 18, 1962
    • like a golden porcupine
    • america
    • pastilles for the voyage
  • ▶October (8)
    • varick street
    • aesthetics into economy
    • a very small audience
    • an ouroboros
    • a right to forgetfulness
    • practice
    • autumn day
    • the observing of the observer of the observers
  • ▶September (17)
    • blood on the sea
    • when things begin to smear
    • catenaries
    • 3. whether the commercial was "evidently done in jest"
    • note 7
    • lost originals
    • progress
    • the threat of alaska
    • gaddis lived here
    • the president
    • productive changes of sense
    • the accumulation is too much to bear
    • of near-recognition of reality
    • how to describe the years?
    • to fracture the text
    • the american college observed
    • stein/wittgenstein
  • ▶August (10)
    • the endless book
    • to bypass the market
    • beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
    • hexenküche 1971
    • attabled with the spinning years
    • as if they had lost them themselves
    • synergetics 529.10
    • a difference of phase
    • not even improper
    • that's not bad
  • ▶July (11)
    • after you
    • section 43
    • the labyrinth of signs
    • charles s. peirce has a plan
    • at any rate
    • endings
    • a sort of a song
    • no swan so fine
    • the islands
    • technology
    • still
  • ▶June (9)
    • the birth of charles sanders peirce
    • a dedication
    • have tended to confuse
    • diaries
    • buona ventura
    • towards an etymology of mathematical notation
    • three aphorisms
    • kafka in davenport
    • young deacon
  • ▶May (6)
    • arbitrary boundaries
    • birds
    • desire
    • a stage to be passed through
    • islands redux
    • portrait with a goat
  • ▶April (6)
    • ninth poem in fascicle 34
    • oh thou sword
    • st. john of the cross
    • so simple and clear to me then
    • and how often do we need mountains
    • 43.
  • ▶March (3)
    • nor be comfortable in his unbelief
    • back to metcalf
    • against ideas
  • ▶February (8)
    • one dancing
    • textuality
    • the audience
    • hammer without a nail
    • for so long
    • containers for the thing contained
    • against writing
    • giving it all away
  • ▶January (19)
    • delany/reading
    • i have had to find it out for myself
    • musil & gadda
    • the radio
    • the pleasures of the door
    • duchamp dream
    • but rather to know these subjects by speaking of them with reverence
    • complacency
    • 3. collage, or, the splice of life:
    • the coming of the land of shades
    • the structure of scientific revolutions
    • against gardening
    • the war continues
    • condescension
    • kings or messengers
    • debasing the currency
    • it smells of destruction
    • and again
    • renard / finishing things
• ▶2007 (114)
  • ▶December (4)
    • a very mixing thing
    • the mail
    • tools of the genius
    • being comfortable
  • ▶November (10)
    • scarry, for reference
    • craft
    • island life
    • the archipelago
    • eccentricity
    • the complete introductory lectures on poetry
    • magnificent stomachs
    • wooden buildings
    • correction
    • prepositions
  • ▶October (9)
    • the language
    • autoisolation
    • there are times
    • stupid (as were all the giants)
    • with puppies
    • like two blind puppies
    • copies of copies
    • the model
    • fantastic man, issue 6
  • ▶September (1)
    • marius the epicurean
  • ▶August (13)
    • say yes to everything
    • the dead christ supported by an angel
    • memorial day 1950
    • sonnet xxxvi
    • the unbeliever
    • wharton in germany
    • the difference between choice and necessity
    • god please let me go as soon as i am right
    • talking in italic
    • amidst the deafening roars
    • glass
    • lost in the funhouse
    • ancestors
  • ▶July (8)
    • gli somnambuli / è morto antonioni
    • young darwin
    • variously
    • at the barnes foundation
    • tasso recovered
    • a longer chapter
    • truth in memoirs
    • something happened
  • ▶June (3)
    • vidal on book reviews
    • the problem with nabokov
    • crusoe in england
  • ▶May (12)
    • john cage at seventy
    • suite of appearances, iv
    • duino elegies, 1
    • opening the cage
    • election day
    • prologues to what is possible
    • potentiality
    • new york
    • versioning
    • errors
    • the painter
    • stanzas in meditation
  • ▶April (8)
    • stein/work
    • cy twombly at the musei capitolini
    • infra-mince
    • isolation
    • finishing things (3)
    • finishing things (2)
    • finishing things (1)
    • campbell, campbell, campbell, campbell
  • ▶March (16)
    • a boyhood interest in the art of tying knots
    • the human distinction
    • being unpublished
    • a problem
    • writers and their publics
    • machines for literature redux
    • the poem as it is then typeset
    • the abstraction of machinery
    • giving the mind an existence outside itself
    • design over time
    • a chatterer and a thief
    • setting the value of authenticity
    • various things
    • a blessing in disguise
    • the incredulity of st. thomas
    • learning to see
  • ▶February (20)
    • on transience
    • è la statua perfetta del genio
    • to another city
    • are you ticklish?
    • book design
    • the more loving one
    • continuing to live
    • of modern poetry
    • dualism
    • intent / the morality of design
    • left imperfect
    • the lincoln-wilson effect
    • two serpents
    • to live without questions
    • response to a request
    • walser in the snow
    • an ideal for living
    • the internet has always been there
    • various things for monday
    • letterpress / john ashbery
  • ▶January (10)
    • as wonderful as being a strain
    • the bees
    • visual poetry / peter greenaway / hollis frampton
    • circumference issue 5 / bernhard reading
    • the people have the right / to remove a government from power
    • pietà
    • delany explains things
    • the python that will devour it
    • that everything is surface
    • interviewer: what kind of action can you hope to take?
• ▶2006 (274)
  • ▶December (15)
    • the failure of surrealism
    • a true likeness without a resemblance
    • jealousy
    • contra melville
    • naming things
    • various things
    • and when we lose objects?
    • clubs that would have you as members
    • poem for ray johnson
    • various things, various things
    • faust vs schweik
    • the sea is the sea
    • the tunnel
    • white space
    • locus solus editions 1/03
  • ▶November (11)
    • eau et gaz
    • the poems of our climate
    • two things
    • bochner on borges on wells
    • locus solus editions 1/02
    • two things
    • locus solus editions 1/01
    • the shoulder
    • things, things, things
    • in the beginning
    • variously/joseph kosuth
  • ▶October (7)
    • eye reflecting the gold of fall
    • various things
    • a few readings
    • various things
    • heritage of the accursed
    • rayner heppenstall, restaurant critic
    • various things
  • ▶September (12)
    • mary reynolds
    • the young man ray
    • freud’s got nothing on tutuola
    • from the new york times archives
    • jean vigo at google video
    • fluxus outcroppings
    • things around
    • circumference reading
    • back once again
    • night fishing in antibes
    • things for sunday
    • curated poetry systems
  • ▶August (14)
    • economics of art
    • locus solus industries 013
    • the passion of duchamp
    • the state of things, 1955
    • marina
    • in sunday’s new york times
    • disorder, mental, strikes me; i
    • various things
    • pages
    • ray johnson, rudy burkhardt & peter hujar at vassar
    • futurist typography
    • arthur cravan, boxer & art critic
    • visioni simultanee
    • things around
  • ▶July (12)
    • ken friedman’s fluxus reader
    • longhi on antonello
    • laced
    • the summer passes by
    • morandi, more de chirico
    • de chirico on architectural monstrosities
    • the red robins
    • new brooklyn rail
    • godard at youtube
    • randomly, randomly
    • random things to remember
    • mr. danger
  • ▶June (5)
    • variously, mostly translation
    • variously
    • kleist’s “on the puppet opera”
    • various new(ish) things at ubuweb
    • menu 3
  • ▶May (20)
    • on acceptance
    • joseph cornell’s old house
    • moravia interviewed
    • kleist before rumsfeld
    • menu 14
    • former homes of the new york futurists
    • a story, predictably enough
    • audio interviews with artists
    • gilbert sorrentino is dead
    • attempts at apollinaire
    • stars on heads, towards a logic of
    • against biography
    • apocalyptic lettering
    • rope pieces
    • il quadrato
    • the bible on architecture
    • endless book to remember
    • two books to track down
    • a giant catfish
    • locus solus industries 012
  • ▶April (27)
    • variously noted
    • my favorite subway ads
    • never mind the internet, here’s 82nd street
    • variously
    • johnson/duchamp
    • foucault quoting roussel on stars on the head
    • better image of the warriors
    • ciel, michel butor est vivant !
    • and ray johnson
    • duchamp/roussel, stars
    • randomly, randomly
    • effingham
    • porter/ashbery/schuyler
    • marsden hartley/fountain
    • viernes 3 am
    • from the encyclopædia acephalica
    • paper machine
    • duchamp/roussel
    • grammars of color
    • a private language
    • (john cage’s “ryoanji” on the ipod)
    • why not give a little chicken?
    • litany for marcel duchamp, who recently shaved the wife of francesco del giocando
    • great bear pamphlets
    • picabia’s spanish women
    • descartes on urban planning
    • variously noted
  • ▶March (33)
    • a fine poster
    • at the vitalic show
    • going to providence
    • mallarmé on madison avenue
    • color
    • locus solus industries 011
    • often we saw magritte
    • failure in america
    • the economics of prestige
    • thomas edison predicts abu ghraib
    • against museums; difficulty
    • randomly
    • similarity
    • the golden age of the blurb
    • locus solus industries 007/008/009
    • commodities update
    • for once, the times has an interesting editorial page
    • stein/duchamp
    • duchamp/stein
    • dali, not sounding like dali
    • italian politics & the media
    • locus solus industries 006
    • i have to write me a paper
    • a fine-looking book that seems fake
    • various translation things
    • the disinherited
    • variously noted
    • the same again, sir? you can’t have the same again.
    • northern boulevard
    • lugubrious letters
    • hélène
    • (fernande)
    • henry-pierre roché
  • ▶February (33)
    • 34q.
    • the book to come
    • the value of black coffee
    • possible pessoa
    • père ubu
    • two cathedrals by kupka
    • locus solus industries 005
    • project for a museum bathroom
    • various things from google video
    • locus solus industries 004
    • saint augustin et sa mère, sainte monique
    • janouch on kafka on work
    • locus solus industries 003
    • gass on elkin on work
    • everything was broken, again.
    • there is a chicken in here somewhere
    • three book covers in two languages
    • the trance of travel
    • excluded middles
    • (on finishing proust)
    • the climate
    • how to proceed in the arts
    • locus solus industries 002
    • mnemotechne
    • taste
    • the form of the poem/the form of the novel
    • two trees by george maciunas
    • don’t want it baudelaire
    • statues of liberty
    • working, two theories
    • forward w/ capitalism!
    • randomly
    • two bad posts on if:book
  • ▶January (85)
    • the impossible bed
    • “the poem is not completely diverting, but appears sometimes odd.”
    • the problem with blogs / nam june paik
    • two annunciations
    • la musica ideal
    • noted: proust, quotation marks
    • of a piece
    • cartier-bresson’s photo of ezra pound
    • oral histories
    • Everything was broken.
    • a cartography of working: part 4
    • a cartography of working: part 3
    • a cartography of working: part 2
    • a cartography of working: part 1
    • nero/frogs
    • reminder
    • wyatt mason in nytimes book review
    • the rose has teeth in the mouth of a beast
    • fabre’s humility
    • lovely greek fonts
    • olivo barbieri’s aerial photographs
    • vanishing points
    • (the idea of proust inspecting baby vultures)
    • haneke on freedom
    • dario fo for mayor of milan
    • written by a pig.
    • detail
    • three views of the duomo in milan
    • exploding from tunnel
    • the big book
    • the time that remains
    • the big book
    • and again
    • on being wrong
    • è morto rotella
    • how to gather cinnamon
    • two paintings in the galleria barberini:
    • from “life and its shadow: the art/life dichotomy”
    • mencken w/ax
    • charles montagu doughty
    • 5. hemulen
    • raymond roussel
    • meanders
    • wichita lineman no. 6: sergio mendez & brazil ‘66, “wichita lineman” (1969)
    • wichita lineman no. 5: cassandra wilson, “wichita lineman” (2002)
    • wichita lineman no. 4: johnny cash, “wichita lineman” (2002)
    • wichita lineman no. 3: spotniks, “wichita lineman” (1974)
    • wichita lineman no. 2: glen campbell, “wichita lineman” (1968)
    • wichita lineman no. 1: justus köhncke, “wichita lineman” (1999)
    • make it new
    • wichita linemen
    • john ashbery, 1962
    • death by water
    • start
    • says madame blavatsky
    • found epigraphs, cont’d.
    • eagleton for [some other] day
    • walser, zero
    • mandeville
    • the girl (ii)
    • quoted quotes
    • as above . . .
    • . . . so below
    • . . . and again
    • is marianne moore marianne moore?
    • the importance of ambiguity
    • middlemarch
    • all about the kish kash
    • préface a la nouvelle édition
    • now reading
    • melville, drowning
    • corson’s inlet
    • dhalgren sold over a million copies
    • adorno on punctuation
    • the joy of the r.v.
    • grammar
    • people are leaving
    • at night, in rome,
    • monday, september 20, 2004
    • captain debray & the aesthetics of taxidermy
    • the aestheticization of food
    • attn. thomas friedman
    • greek architecture
    • here is a picture of a tremendous machine.
    • the corrupt text