digital emunction » Anahid Nersessian http://www.digitalemunction.com A website dedicated to literature, politics, life, and anything else worth talking about. Founded in 2006 by Robert P. Baird Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:55:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en U of C Popo put undergrad in chokehold Unfortunately, not a joke.

]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2010/02/28/u-of-c-popo-put-undergrad-in-chokehold/ RIP Alexander McQueen For an ambivalent clotheshorse like myself, there was never a better reason to follow mainstream fashion. A huge loss in a rough year for creativity. Watch em and weep, even you, boys.

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]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2010/02/11/rip-alexander-mcqueen/ Upon whose body Paterson instructs his thoughts The governor of my hometown has proposed budget cuts to the New York public school system of 5%, and health care is getting as they say slashed by $1 billion, including reductions to Medicaid providers. Agency spending is being cut…

]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2010/01/19/upon-whose-body-paterson-instructs-his-thoughts/ a message from pretty: on laurel nakadate Artist’s talks—up for review, like a gallery show or spread in Artforum? A few nights ago I saw photographer, video artist, and filmmaker Laurel Nakadate give a presentation on her work at SAIC, and it was one hell of a…

]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2009/11/16/a-message-from-pretty-on-laurel-nakadate/ Sing, Musers! Poets and poetic theorists, a sincere request for pedagogy: what does it mean to speak of “narrative” in contemporary poetry?

I’m coming at this question obliquely, from the field of visual art, a piece of which I recently co-made…

]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2009/10/30/sing-musers/ What’s the Rumpus, Prez? Pace Milton Friedman, it isn’t often that the University of Chicago campus really gets its knickers in a knot about something geopolitical. I, for one, was a bit flabbergasted to find the email quoted here in my inbox this evening and…

]]> http://www.digitalemunction.com/2009/10/20/whats-the-rumpus-prez/ gaga autonomism

From Marc Bousquet, an interview with a spokesperson from Occupy California. Here is what follows his or her characterization of the UCSC facility occupied by the group for a full week as a “remarkable open zone…

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