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Adorno’s Noise
ADORNO'S NOISE is a collection of experimental, poetic, and conceptual essays that "once again proves how necessary an encounter with [Harryman's] writing has become for us today" (Avital Ronell). ADORNO'S NOISE takes a stunning plunge into a kaleidoscopic world of globalization, female sexuality, the place of art and artist, and the looming power of the state. Phrases from Theodor Adorno's aphoristic philosophical text, Minima Moralia, serve as catalysts for an explosion of thought and language that quickly breaks Adorno's orbit. As Rob Halpern puts it: "ADORNO'S NOISE reinvents the 'essay as form, ' but it doesn't stop short of reinventing thinking." Other Carla Harryman titles available from SPD include OPEN BOX (IMPROVISATIONS), BABY, and ANIMAL INSTINCTS
- GenresPoetry
181 pages, Paperback
First published October 15, 2008
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Displaying 1 - 4 of 4 reviews
September 8, 2009
Are scalapino and harryman inconsistent? Can you read them together, or do you have to prefer one's way of operating a book over the other?
My impression, having read four books of Harryman and 8 of Scalapino's books: Scalapino = effective. Harryman = affective. The blurb on the back of the Adorno book is very clever. The one which mentions a militant kind of non-attention. Framing the thinking strategies here as a discipline. Head scratch.
I'm all for lack of clarity, but it seems that working towards this autobiographical theory railroad... requires more. Hejinian and Scalapino have developed procedures [lengthier ones than Harryman:] for this kind of [don't want to say investigation, maybe radiation is better. Investigation sounds too dull for what's going on in their books.:] Fuck the word "investigation." It doesn't belong. It's been Ponged.
My impression, having read four books of Harryman and 8 of Scalapino's books: Scalapino = effective. Harryman = affective. The blurb on the back of the Adorno book is very clever. The one which mentions a militant kind of non-attention. Framing the thinking strategies here as a discipline. Head scratch.
I'm all for lack of clarity, but it seems that working towards this autobiographical theory railroad... requires more. Hejinian and Scalapino have developed procedures [lengthier ones than Harryman:] for this kind of [don't want to say investigation, maybe radiation is better. Investigation sounds too dull for what's going on in their books.:] Fuck the word "investigation." It doesn't belong. It's been Ponged.
July 6, 2009
Disappointing, considering how great _Baby_ is. Every "chapter" felt disconnected. As a whole, the book wasn't working together. Pieces of it were interesting, most of it wasn't.
May 27, 2009
Usefully revises Adorno's lyric ... and a v. satisfying graphic experience.
October 11, 2009
I didn't realize this was a book of essays until around page 122, and then I liked it somewhat less.
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