Notes on Social Architectures as Art Forms, Sal Randolph
Oct 25th — A brief mapping of the aesthetic territory of social artworks.
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Oct 25th — A brief mapping of the aesthetic territory of social artworks. 
Sep 26th — Alice Fulton's poetry stands as one of the most representative examples of intellectual exchange between contemporary experimental poetics and modern science — as represented by quantum physics, chaos theory and <continued>
Sep 22nd — In this paper, I argue that Oliver's she said dialogues: flesh memory stage the problem of subjectivity posed by double-consciousness (and ultimately, by systems of identity <continued> 
Oct 6th — "A mouth full of suffering": Loss as Renewal in Carmen Bugan's Crossing the Carpathians When Carmen Bugan fled Romania with her family to the United States, <continued>
Sep 18th — Rachel Blau DuPlessis's The Pink Guitar: Writing As Feminist Practice (1990) offers a creative alternative to traditional scholarship about women's poetry. Specifically, DuPlessis wrestles with the work of H. <continued>
Sep 11th — Trip Report from New Media and Social Memory (Berkeley, January 18, 2007) 
Sep 10th — How is it that the brain can perceive an object from various angles and walk 180° around it? How is the brain able to synthesize those multifarious impressions into a single image or simultaneous vision <continued>
Sep 25th — Influenced by William James, Gertrude Stein's command of time anchored her work in the present while simultaneously inviting comparison with medieval literature and projecting <continued>
Sep 11th — Elizabeth Bishop's emotional, erotic, and sexual life was focused on women. She had both long-term relationships with female partners and brief love affairs with women. Her sexual orientation was well known among <continued>
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