C.J. Martin's Blog, page 17
February 3, 2015
furtherotherbookworks:
New design work from Further Other Book...
New design work from Further Other Book Works: Sara Jane Stoner’s EXPERIENCE IN THE MEDIUM OF DESTRUCTION (Portable Press @ Yo-Yo Labs, 2015). Julia & I knocked this one out at the end of last year, and Brenda Iijima’s just made it available. We highly recommend! Get yours here.
From the jacket:
“What is the value of your subject.” This is a statement concerning that endlessly being in question that persons call personhood. The other ones, who are not quite one, flesh that question out against its privileged, prolonged, projective agony. The ones who are other than that sound that one out, smoke him out, take his mark away at immeasurable cost to their sound—that price, that destruction, that loss (of being), being where their sound comes from. At risk, Sara Jane Stoner’s riskiness protects that sound in her persistent practice of it: “this noise band; matter,” “powder matter/of the voice,” “a softness of matter,” her writing matters terribly, palpably, beautifully. — Fred Moten
February 2, 2015
Two New Essays on David Brazil's The Ordinary
Head over to ON Contemporary Practice to read two new essays on the work of David Brazil. The first is the complete “Ordinary Weather,” which collects a totally moving, serialized essay by C.J. Martin. The second, by local wunderkind Stephen Novotny, takes on the invention of “litter” and…
February 1, 2015
LITTERATURE: ON DAVID BRAZIL’S “ECONOMY”
Recent essay at ON Contemporary Practice, reading the litter in Brazil’s The Ordinary
Pleased to be in company w/Supersuperette over at ON…
Myung Mi Kim on Close Listening
"Under what terms and conditions do we understand legibility? Who has the authority to invest and divest what’s scrutable, what’s readable?"
January 30, 2015
tonytobecasual:
"I don’t know why a birthday should be so...
"I don’t know why a birthday should be so important…"
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"What you hear is what you have heard from. What you wish is
what someone has wished from a great distance. A long
line with no bait and a single hook.”
—Book of Magazine Verse + St. NEOT collage
Happy birthday, Jack Spicer!
January 27, 2015
furtherotherbookworks:
Sneak peek...
Sneak peek coming-as-weather-permits:
First (of four) letterpress prints we are producing of Jack Spicer’s unpublished poems with poet/artists Paul Klinger (above), Kevin Killian, Norma Cole, & Kyle Schlesinger. These are all being printed/sold as a fundraiser for a book we are doing of Helen Adam’s collages. Correspondences indeed!
Stay tuned…
January 26, 2015
litmuspress:
PREAMBLE to the North American Free Trade...
PREAMBLE to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), followed by it’s erasure.
from Anti-Humboldt by Hugo García Manríquez
In 2010 Hugo García Manríquez set out to work through the North American Free Trade Agreement in Spanish and English. The result is a bilingual artifact that interrupts and re-politicizes NAFTA’s neoliberal language, becoming a space of transnational encounter that strangely falls on the same continuum as the work of 19th-century naturalist Alexander von Humboldt – a continuum upon which the institutions of Law and Science dream of stabilizing the flux of contingency into the language of the market. No longer univocal in meaning, the remains in Anti-Humboldt resist being situated, makes evident the madness of language and rationality words that – to echo George Oppen – “have run mad / In the subways / And of course the institutions / And the banks.”
January 23, 2015
furtherotherbookworks:
Some progress shots on the Mac Low book....
Some progress shots on the Mac Low book. This will get a clamshell box as well, so there’s plenty of work left…
Pics from the binding I’m working on…
January 22, 2015
http://litmuspress.tumblr.com/post/10...
"Oppositional documentation is the mere fact of the document done wrong.”
-Divya Victor on Anti-Humboldt for Harriet
We are thrilled to start the countdown to our next joint-release with Aldus Editorial, Anti-Humboldt: A Reading of the North American Free Trade Agreement, by…
Yes!
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