“…they’re going to abandon me, there will be the silence, for a moment, for a good few moments, or it will be mine, the lasting one, that didn’t last, that still lasts, it will be I, you must go on, I can’t go on, you must go on, I’ll go on, you must say words, [...]
The Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon recently announced the formation of a new Master’s program joining Critical Theory with Creative Research. Working with students from the arts, humanities and the sciences, the MA in CT+CR seeks to cross or dissolve the traditional boundaries existing between theory and practice. Th above is a [...]
Ben Marcus (on continent.’s board of advisors) releases his long awaited new novel next week. Available now for pre-order via Amazon, The Flame Alphabet describes the end of language (and life) through a slow toxic pandemic—caused by the exposure to children’s language—that sweeps across the world. The idea is horrifying but the way Marcus teases [...]
…according to contributor Feliz L. Molina who writes at Huffington Post that the raid against Zuccotti Park “only sparked even more rage from the 99% (which I’d like to arguably call the 100%) and it will only strengthen the various Occupied Cities.”
Arundhati Roy speaking at The People’s University in Washington Park the day after the Zuccotti Park evictions. You can se the full text here.
Schoenberg Add to the list of music I don’t understand (yet adore) is this film adapting Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, op. 21. Shot on shaky video in New York by Oliver Herrmann with primitive animation, strippers, old black men, meat lockers, SRO’s and the beautiful Christine Schäfer, this film is astounding. If you haven’t seen it, [...]
Graham Harman has posted a lovely response to critics of what he terms the blogopolis. Harman claims that rather than criticizing the proliferating philosophy blogs (mostly written by adherents and followers of SR/OOO) as being places in which philosophy can’t be done, these blogs should be looked at as the cafes and bars of post-1945 [...]
Timothy Morton (who is rumored to be mulling an article for continent.) just posted this 21 part (!) job advice aggregator. It is time, right now, for all you adjuncts and one year lecturers, to start thinking about next year. Go forth, Intellectual, get thee a job! As Timothy says, “tis the season to be [...]
The stunningly prolific philosopher Graham Harman, whose piece appears in the new issue of continent. has just released a new book called The Quadruple Object. Supposedly not due to ship until mid-July, we were pleased to find it in the UPS man’s hands, direct from Amazon this afternoon. The Quadruple Object, though still unread, promises [...]
Timothy Morton has just put up a full stream to the round-table talks at the Royal Academy of Art yesterday featuring him, Ian Hamilton Grant, Padraig Timoney, Martin Westewood and Amanda Beech. The round-table focused on places where speculative realism can help inform art making and criticism (and presumably the opposite too.)