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POLLEN METH WEAPONS: Glitch translations, mistranslations, this translation’s ______

Thursday, August 15, 2013

  I love scanning errors — errors produced by scanners — in general, and right now in particular I love the ones I’m hitting in the Penguin Kindle edition of Antigone (tr. Robert Fagles), which I’ve been reading because we’ll be kicking off the semester with a big discussion of Sophocles’ 2,454-year-old tragedy next week as part of freshman orientation. Here’s […]

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Working Titles

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

  List of Working Titles My Way Killings Zero Mark Essay Search Me United States v. Approximately 64,695 Pounds of Shark Fins Period Style Never Read Transcriptease Metic I Wish the Competition Would Come Up with Something New Faster Guess That Makes Two of Us Full Bleed Lachrymator Sentry Frog Money Emperor Shao If This Were a Test Embarrassing Product […]

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LINER NOTES: PERE UBU, “30 SECONDS OVER TOKYO”

Thursday, June 27, 2013

Great reggae’d punk shiv of a riff, stab and scratch. Discord arpeggio strings nailed dirty uncoiling into super-compressed worm of a counterpoint-riff. Like that. Bass lags a beat. The low-grade grating of an ambient theramin hum building up underneath, onomatotechnopoetic big-string-rib-pick-drags thru vacuum tubes & charcoal gray paperboard cones (twin Wright R‑2600 radials on a B‑25 Mitchell). It’s a claustrophobic space, collapsing […]

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Query No. 2: LETHAL WEAPON

Saturday, January 19, 2013

In our movie we play these people who are in this movie about how they don’t know they’re actually in this other movie 

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Conspiracy Query No. 1

Saturday, January 12, 2013

Conspire… to breathe with? What’s the etymology? “It’s in the air,” phrase functions both as idiom and figure for info spread, of meaning, of memes (mememememe a chain of me-peeps linked, subverted we people w/ myth flipped, domination in the mix, an oscillating morpheme dependent on a Saussurean whir of m w m w m w m wmwmw feeding into (and […]

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Notes on Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language”

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Teaching a lot of Orwell this spring in a writing class focused on questions of economic equality and justice. I mean inequality and injustice. Haven’t read him in a long time. Plan to re-engage here with Orwell as I reread his work. 1. Orwell is too rational. I mean that in the best way, but he’s an idealist realist, and his ideals […]

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