tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4096739.post2506688510457450867..comments2023-11-03T06:31:07.882-04:00Comments on Cahiers de Corey: Poetics of the MultipleAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06846875103765617419noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4096739.post-60969805114769987932012-07-03T22:46:19.152-04:002012-07-03T22:46:19.152-04:00Shall I try and justify my ahistoricism? Perhaps, ...Shall I try and justify my ahistoricism? Perhaps, but it will take a post all its own. Stay tuned.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06846875103765617419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4096739.post-24272025643155020892012-07-03T18:15:35.265-04:002012-07-03T18:15:35.265-04:00I'm not sure I understand -- no, strike that -...I'm not sure I understand -- no, strike that -- I don't understand what you mean when you write about Romanticism here. (This is probably my fault). Duncan, whom you find attractive, asserted that he was a Romantic in pretty bald terms. Of course there was a great ahistorical leap in that assertion, so maybe he's thinking of specific aspects of Romanticism (the visionary imagination and all that) that are quite different from the qualities you're seeing as essential to Romanticism. Maybe you could flesh out what you mean by Romanticism as the interdependence of the self and the world. Or you could get on with other things -- summer's short, and I don't want to impose.Archambeauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17273511539172747550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4096739.post-48620197797913280182012-07-02T22:20:41.363-04:002012-07-02T22:20:41.363-04:00As long as I'm adding comments to my own post,...As long as I'm adding comments to my own post, I must note my surprise to have discovered only after writing it that Cal Bedient's next book, out this fall from Omnidawn, is called THE MULTIPLE. Naturally I can't wait to read it.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06846875103765617419noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4096739.post-27356517795707195312012-07-02T22:05:44.077-04:002012-07-02T22:05:44.077-04:00Kent Johnson has a comment but Blogger wouldn'...Kent Johnson has a comment but Blogger wouldn't let him post it, so I will do so on his behalf:<br /><br />******************<br />This will be a book to read. And the novel, too! Congrats, Josh.<br /> <br />I'd say this is certainly one of the best blog posts I've read in some time.<br /> <br />I have similar conflicted feelings about the Montevidayo aesthetic, impressed as I am by much of the work. There are the unleashed psychic energies of it, and some of it bears the condition of unusual poetic courage. But it seems to me the darker forces inherent in those energies are sometimes not reflected upon sufficiently-- I mean the clear tendency there of a Sadean/Bataillean/Artaudian excess getting celebrated for its own sake, a love of the prohibited, and with some obliviousness, amongst some of its practitioners (not including McSweeney or Goransson here, though they have in a sense spawned the danger), to the possible easy flip into evil ('evil' for lack of better word--you might call it, less economically, a potential proto-fascist nihilism) that latently lurks there.<br /> <br />Kent<br /> Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06846875103765617419noreply@blogger.com