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… a note on discernment …

I sat down to write this morning. Perhaps it is these unfamiliar surrounds–strange to be writing in a retirement village; where the weather has lifted, an atmospheric river disgorging its flow last night, and the sound of it, despite the insulation, the double-glazing, the general sense of separation from
Simon Taylor 09 Jun 2024

感謝 & requiescat in pace John Burnside, 19 March 1955 – 29 May 2024 ~ illustr. Christian Zucconi

“A good writing day is a day with the fewest interruptions, mixed with a sense of gratitude, just for being able to put pen to paper.” A FOOTNOTE TO COLOSSIANS            For ye are dead, and your life is hid.                     Colossians 3:3Let us remember the stillborn: how they cede their
Simon Taylor 08 Jun 2024

from Moment’s Notice: Jazz in Poetry & Prose, edited by Art Lange & Nathaniel Mackey:

Poetry Makes Rhythm in PhilosophyMaybe it was the Bichot Beaujolais, 1970 But in an a.m. upstairs on Crescent Ave. I had a conversation with K.C. Bird      We were discussing rhythm and I said "Rhythm makes everything move the seasons swing it backs up the elements Like walking
Simon Taylor 16 May 2024

numbers of jailed writers: PEN does not divest

PEN’s Freedom to Write Index [from this source:] … tracks the detention and imprisonment of writers, and in 2023, at least 339 writers were detained or imprisoned around the world for their writing or otherwise exercising their freedom of expression. Since the first edition of the Index was published in
Simon Taylor 04 May 2024

scholasticide in Gaza | a public note on grammar @LitHub

A group of academics affiliated with North American institutions have1 written an open letter condemning the ongoing scholasticide2 in Gaza. This marks the most recent collective gesture in a series of statements from anti-genocidal3 culture workers.4 But unlike other expressions of solidarity,5 thi
Simon Taylor 13 Apr 2024

[¿] advocacy’s antonym = complicity [?] {interrupted by Lavender}

… going through the sale theory books at Verso, striking how monotonous the refrain is that these books deal with the present. Strikes me, because it is exactly of the present that we are forgetful. A Lavender user: “I would invest 20 seconds for each target at this stage, and do
Simon Taylor 05 Apr 2024

Adam Shatz’s review of Dosse’s double biography of Deleuze and Guattari led to a question I had not thought until now to ask:

What has capitalism to do to survive? Shatz represents the argument Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus presents, the first volume of Capitalism and Schizophrenia, to be dealing with what capitalism has to do to survive because “at its most extreme,” he writes, “capitalism encourages a kind of generalised schizophrenia, a
Simon Taylor 25 Mar 2024

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