December 09, 2014
December 09, 2014
winter
Vladimir Zuev
New Voices in Uruguayan PoetryNight Up North
Fabián Severo
Translated from Portuñol by Dan Bellm
Artigas is an abandoned station
the hope left behind by a train that won’t come back
a road that disappears heading south.
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I don’t know how it is in civilized places
but in Artigas
people have a last name.
Mr. Nobodies
like me—
we come from the border.
Not from this side, not from the other.
The ground we walk on isn’t ours
nor the language we speak.
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Artigas has a language that nobody owns.
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This tongue of mine
sticks out its tongue at the dictionary
dances a pagode on top of the map
makes a kite from a schoolboy’s tunic and sash
flies loose and free in the sky.
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Artigas is a land lost up North
that doesn’t show up on maps....(more)
Jesse Lee Kercheval
words without borders _______________________ Nothing is real
Poetry & poetics of Juan Luis Martínez
Carlos Soto-Román
(....)_______________________During his lifetime, Juan Luis Martínez got to publish just two books. In 1971, he submitted his first book of poems to the Chilean press Editorial Universitaria. After two years of thoughtful review the publisher rejected Pequeña Cosmogonía Práctica (Small Practical Cosmogony) because it was impossible for them to classify. A frustrated Martínez finally decided to self-publish the manuscript in 1977, changing the title to La Nueva Novela (The New Novel). Listed as one the most enigmatic books of Chilean literature, labeled as the first object-book in the history of Chilean poetry, and considered a seminal work, La Nueva Novela stands as an iconoclastic and disruptive book of poetry. Built as an endless maze of quotes, based on a complex system of literary, philosophical, artistic, and scientific references, its fragments, even though they are constantly aiming to different directions, still draw together a coherent poetic unit, where skepticism, irony, and humor are protagonists. Using strategies such as the eradication of the traditional notion of authorship, appropriation, plagiarism, and recontextualization, Juan Luis Martínez perfectly embodies in advance all the premises of today’s conceptual writing. Despite the fact that La Nueva Novela had a poor and restricted circulation, it succeeded in becoming a foundational book, opening the doors of the neo-avant-garde in Chile, and forging an interesting legacy of experimental writing, which still prevails.
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_______________________Life is the art of being well deceived.The Care And Management Of Lies
—Hazlitt
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I have been systematically rethinking the nature of the lying. The purposes of the liar might be better served by attacking propositional attitudes other than belief. Indeed, I suspect that tyrants often do not want all their underlings to be deluded. If they will act only on what they know, then they can be paralyzed by doubts that do not affect their beliefs.
—Roy Sorensen
Gerald Dworkin
3 quarks daily
Bookplates by the Russian artist Vladimir Zuev
From the collection of Richard Sica
50 watts
Penny Rush interviewed by Richard Marshall.
3:am
(....)_______________________One important thing that non-classical logics have done that classical logic has not (although, who knows, it may have, had Frege lived longer) is, after stepping carefully in problematic domains, to revise or rebuild completely in the light of suspicious results: classical paradoxes or limitations in areas like quantum physics, the foundations of mathematics, and plain old everyday reasoning in inconsistent or even just possibly inconsistent situations – have all inspired non-classical logics, and as a result we now have logics offering more nuanced and accurate models of deduction across at least some contexts and at most, more contexts than those classical logic can handle.
The advent of such logics means there are not many who would make the claim that classical logic can handle everything the alternatives can – it is widely acknowledged, for instance, that paraconsistent logics can handle inconsistent situations, and classical logic cannot (it explodes). But some may still claim that classical logic is to be preferred nonetheless. Even that sort of claim, though, has now to accommodate the fact of other logics and the apparent failures of classical logic (often quite glaring): so, even if it is to be preferred, the role and nature of classical logic are no longer the straightforward matters they were once considered to be.(....)
Derrida and Husserl both take seriously the idea that an independent reality is entirely ‘other’ – but they do so in quite different ways. Derrida’s is negative – he shows just how tricky it is to posit a reality which is essentially different from us (or, to draw any sort of line between ‘us’ and ‘reality’) without somehow coming unstuck. He gives lots of good reasons to suspect that something strange is going on whenever we try to articulate any sort of external ‘ground’ in philosophy at all – which he thinks means that traditional, foundational philosophy is in a quagmire, and I guess I agree, but I like the quagmire – we are there because there’s a very interesting fracture that we just keep falling into: one that no bridge (built after scrabbling up one side or the other) can span.
On the other hand, Husserl’s phenomenology grapples more directly with the fracture itself and so the resultant picture, messy and confusing as it is, portrays our situation more faithfully than one which tidies things away too neatly, or is apparently without holes. The point, to reiterate, is that I like that it’s a strange situation we’re in: for one thing, I think allowing it to be strange (rather than trying to resolve it) casts light on a number of other such fractures through philosophical enquiry, but also it just seems right to me that what goes on at the everyday level when we simply discover our world is in fact not simple in the sense of able to be captured in any account reducing the phenomenon: be it to an epistemological process, ontological division, or scientific method. Any such reductions are our own – and that what is not our own (not us) is unsayable needs, I think, saying!...(more)
Vladimir Zuev
Art-exlibris.net - The Digital Exlibris Museum
Tim Parks
Imagine you are asked what single alteration in people’s behavior might best improve the lot of mankind. How foolish would you have to be to reply: have them learn to read with a pen in their hands? But I firmly believe such a simple development would bring huge benefits.
We have too much respect for the printed word, too little awareness of the power words hold over us. We allow worlds to be conjured up for us with very little concern for the implications. We overlook glaring incongruities. We are suckers for alliteration, assonance, and rhythm. We rejoice over stories, whether fiction or “documentary,” whose outcomes are flagrantly manipulative, self-serving, or both. Usually both. If a piece of writing manifests the stigmata of literature—symbols, metaphors, unreliable narrators, multiple points of view, structural ambiguities—we afford it unlimited credit. ...(more)
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