This is the blog. There is not so much here save William Wilson is Too Good for the Internet and whatever detritus has subsequently accrued, not least Locus Solus Industries and now Locus Solus Editions.I wish things looked better, but they don’t. The title of this is from Duchamp, of course. The cover art is from Dettinger’s Oasis, which you should go and buy. This is made on a Mac mostly using Safari, but I look at things occasionally in Firefox and they seem okay. Apologies if it looks horribly wrong to you in anything else. Other things: LibraryThing, last.fm. Correspondence should be sent to D. B. Visel, 35-24 72nd Street, Apartment 5D, Jackson Heights, New York 11372, United States.
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- ▶2010 (78)
- ▼March (9)
- ▶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)
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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
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- A Journey Round My Skull
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- Beppe Grillo
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- Kinosport
- Mark Scroggins
- Mudd Up!
- Pierre Joris
- Ron Silliman
- Room 26 Cabinet of Curiosities
- Stephen Mitchelmore
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- The Endless Bookshelf
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