(Couple with Anthropomorphic Deity; Mexico; Maya; 7th–9th century; ceramic. Lent by a private collection, 2008. L.2008.41.8)
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- ▶2010 (74)
- ▼March (5)
- ▶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)
- ▶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
- ▶December (16)
- ▶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)
- ▶October (8)
- ▶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)
- ▶July (11)
- ▶June (9)
- ▶May (6)
- ▶April (6)
- ▶March (3)
- ▶February (8)
- ▶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
- ▶December (21)
- ▶2007 (114)
- ▶December (4)
- ▶November (10)
- ▶October (9)
- ▶September (1)
- ▶August (13)
- ▶July (8)
- ▶June (3)
- ▶May (12)
- ▶April (8)
- ▶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)
- ▶October (7)
- ▶September (12)
- ▶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)
- ▶June (5)
- ▶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
- ▶December (15)
0 things i am busy with
1 places i write for
2 real people
3 writers
- Alasdair Gray (1)
- Alasdair Gray (2)
- Anna Kavan
- Charles Baudelaire
- Damion Searls
- Georges Bataille
- Gertrude Stein
- Guy Davenport
- Helen DeWitt
- Italo Calvino (1)
- Italo Calvino (2)
- James Joyce (1)
- James Joyce (2)
- James Schuyler
- Joseph McElroy
- László Krasznahorkai
- Marcel Proust
- Maurice Blanchot
- Oulipo
- Raymond Queneau
- Raymond Roussel
- Robert Walser (1)
- Robert Walser (2)
- Ron Padgett
- Thomas Bernhard
- William Gaddis
- William Gass
- William Morris
4 artists
6 presses
- Alma Books
- Atlas Press
- Aurora
- Coffee House Press
- Dalkey Archive
- Dedalus
- Enitharmon Press
- Exact Change
- Exploring Fictions/Green Integer
- Golden Rule Jones
- Green Integer
- Hand Held Editions
- Hyphen Press
- Left Hand Books
- Make Now Press
- Marion Boyers
- McPherson & Co.
- Metronome
- Peter Owens
- The Jargon Society
- Three Percent
- Twisted Spoon
- Ugly Duckling
7 blogs
- A Journey Round My Skull
- A Small Gleaning Factory
- Alex Ross
- Anecdotal Evidence
- Beppe Grillo
- Giornale Nuovo
- Golden Rule Jones
- House Is A Feeling
- Jenny Diski
- Kinosport
- Mark Scroggins
- Mudd Up!
- Pierre Joris
- Ron Silliman
- Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities
- Stephen Mitchelmore
- Susan Bernofsky
- The Endless Bookshelf
- The Existence Machine
- The Selfdivider
- Vertigo
- Waggish
- wood s lot
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