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Juliana Spahr’s Respiratory Solidarity

jagcDecember 8, 2020No Comment
2020-12-09T06:09:48-06:00
(Content warning in NYT image detail for injury).   For my post I’d like to offer a brief sketch, a reading of Juliana Spahr’s “poemwrittenafterseptember11/2001.” On September 12th 2001,...
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Antonioni’s “Red Desert” : Colors of Madness

lpradeau November 30, 2020 No Comment
2020-11-30T16:17:55-06:00
My presentation on Michelangelo Antonioni’s Red Desert (1964) was but an attempt to explore...

Tempest of Industrial Abnature: On John Ruskin’s “Storm-Cloud”

crblerer November 30, 2020 No Comment
2020-11-30T09:27:35-06:00
Lerer Long Presentation Tempest of Industrial Abnature: On John Ruskin’s “Storm-Cloud” Today I will...
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Revolting against the Regime of Fluency in Jordan Scott’s “Valsalvas”

airigoyen November 9, 2020 No Comment
2020-12-14T20:17:41-06:00
On October 18th, 2020, Lara Trump, Donald Trump’s daughter-in-law and campaign advisor, did a...
Blog: Musings and Interpretations

AAA-AAA: Breath as Object, Breath as Relation

mstableinjr November 7, 2020 No Comment
2020-11-15T19:33:09-06:00
By: Michael Stablein, Jr. Click here for video recording of my presentation In the...

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Margaret Cavendish’s Vital Echoes

airigoyenNovember 30, 2020No Comment
2020-12-14T19:59:45-06:00
For my short presentation today, I want to add to our “Breathworks” a poem from Margaret Cavendish’s 1653 assemblage of Poems and Fancies, titled  “Of Sound and Eccho” (1664...
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“News Piece (ongoing),” Holly Pester

jagc November 30, 2020 No Comment
2020-12-09T06:00:23-06:00
Holly Pester’s “News Piece (ongoing)” is a difficult poem to talk about, mostly because...
Breathworks (Ours)

Demetrio Stratos: Cantare la Voce / Singing the Voice

Alessandro Ludovico Minnucci November 16, 2020 No Comment
2020-11-25T13:00:04-06:00
Demetrio Stratos_ Cantare la Voce _ Singing the Voice In this small presentation, I...

Amplification in Rebecca Belmore’s Ayum-ee-aawach Oomama-mowan: Speaking to Their Mother

fmaltaisbayda November 13, 2020 No Comment
2020-11-13T16:15:01-06:00
I’m taking the opportunity of this short text to introduce a sculptural installation by...

We are Sudamerican Rockers: Vocalizations in the Protest Song

Natalie Cortez November 9, 2020 No Comment
2020-11-09T17:34:16-06:00
You have just watched the first music video ever played by MTV en Español,...

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Silicosis (n.);

jagcDecember 9, 2020No Comment
2020-12-09T07:52:20-06:00
The American Lung Association defines silicosis as the following: Silicosis is an interstitial lung disease caused by breathing in tiny bits of silica, a common mineral found in many...

Fluffy Sound

mstableinjr December 2, 2020 No Comment
2020-12-02T13:56:07-06:00
Following my Breathworks entry on Tremoring Breath in Fitzmaurice Voicework, here I want to...
Air Glossary

The Rough Breathing in Ancient Greek

Alessandro Ludovico Minnucci November 25, 2020 No Comment
2020-11-25T13:11:22-06:00
THE ROUGH BREATHING IN ANCIENT GREEK The breathing character is a diacritical mark belonging...

Astrophobia II: Clark Ashton Smith

crblerer November 15, 2020 No Comment
2020-11-15T23:03:40-06:00
Astrophobia II: Clark Ashton Smith Lovecraft’s colleague and protege, Clark Ashton Smith, presents a...

Astrophobia I: H.P. Lovecraft

crblerer November 15, 2020 No Comment
2020-11-15T22:54:42-06:00
Astrophobia I: H.P. Lovecraft In a 1957 essay on UFOs, Roland Barthes critiques the...

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Murubutu, L’Uomo che Viaggiava nel Vento

Alessandro Ludovico MinnucciDecember 2, 2020No Comment
2020-12-02T13:08:09-06:00
Alessio Mariani is a high-school professor of Italian Literature and History in Reggio Emilia. He is also a rapper, artistically known as Murubutu. His style of rap mixes hip-hop...

Vito Acconci, Open Book (1974)

cecily October 14, 2020 No Comment
2020-10-14T10:41:13-05:00
https://ubu.com/film/acconci_book.html When language collapses, does it break down into “mere” breath? In a space...

Inspiration: NPR on How to Make a Quaranzine

jscape October 4, 2020 No Comment
2020-10-04T10:54:16-05:00
https://www.npr.org/2020/05/28/863068957/how-to-make-a-mini-zine-about-life-during-the-pandemic...

The Politics of the Mask

jscape September 23, 2020 No Comment
2020-09-23T15:00:29-05:00
http://bostonreview.net/politics/politics-of-the-mask-ak-thompson-clare-oconnor?fbclid=IwAR0v8cv2f6f9BlOqqEokTA_vw4D3-tFl3EmLViMRi3qSf2t_tjbNdOFe3Xk “Today, we find ourselves in a paradoxical situation in which states are simultaneously...

Skinner, Paragraphs on Forest Bathing

jscape September 23, 2020 No Comment
2020-09-23T14:25:08-05:00
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