Sean Pryor

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On Equivalence | Sydney Review of Books Ten years ago, Mez Breeze published ‘\oriGaM[e,]i[,+ U]/’ online. Sean Pryor revisits this work in the context of Breeze’s experiments mixing code and poetry. Can literary-critical tools help close th...

Here's a new essay I wrote for the Sydney Review of Books, on poetry and computer code in a work by @mezbreeze.bsky.social. With thanks to James Jiang for giving the essay what shape it has. I hope you like it: it's supposed to be fun!

sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essays/on-eq...

Literary Provocations Hub | Arts & Media - UNSW Sydney A vibrant network of literary researchers and writers at UNSW, exploring language through events, workshops, and projects that connect creative and critical writing.

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UNSW Literary Provocations Hub Seminar #7

"Dear AI Reader: Nonhuman Perspective and Evolutionary Thinking in the Human-Machine Relation"
Chris Danta (ANU)

Wednesday, 24 September
3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Robert Webster 327, UNSW Main Campus

No need to register, and all are welcome. Come along!

Now available! Cover of Stitch, Unstitch: Modernist Poetry and the World of Work. Kristin Grogan. it includes a blurb by Brian Glavey and a 20% discount with code CUP20SM at cup.columbia.edu.

Now available! Blending Marxist and feminist theory with attentive close readings, STITCH, UNSTITCH is a revelatory materialist account of the values of poetry. buff.ly/DlnVJeY #CreativeLabor #FeministModernism #WagesForHousework #Modernism

Apropos of nothing, I love the way water beads on kale.

What are the best / most interesting / most influential manifestos for and against quantitative or computational literary studies, do you think? (Not Moretti, not Da.)

Literary Provocations Hub | Arts & Media - UNSW Sydney A vibrant network of literary researchers and writers at UNSW, exploring language through events, workshops, and projects that connect creative and critical writing.

www.unsw.edu.au/arts-design-...

UNSW Literary Provocations Hub Seminar #6

"The Poetics and Politics of Speculative Biography: Miles Franklin Undercover"
Kerrie Davies (UNSW)

Wednesday, 27 August
3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Robert Webster 327, UNSW Main Campus

There's no need to register, and all are welcome. Come along!

No, but I will have a look--thanks!

Also, isn't "Having a Coke with You" just the most wonderful thing?

ON THIS WEEK! UNSW Literary Provocations Hub Seminar #5

"The New Modernist Novel: Criticism and the Task of Reading"
Elizabeth Pender (Sydney)

See the comments for an abstract.

Wednesday, 16 July
3:00-4:30 p.m.
Robert Webster 335, UNSW Sydney

No need to register, and all are welcome. Come along!

Published in Paris in 1925, the Contact Collection is a strange and compelling book, and the essay aims to think about how the form of the anthology affects literary world-making, in the sense of the construction of coherent totalities of spatial and temporal relations, and of values and norms.

Modernism's Book of Scraps: Worldmaking and the Anthology as Medium in the Contact Collection of Contemporary Writers This article investigates how literary works create worlds by asking about medium. Whereas Eric Hayot, Jonathan Culler, Paul K. Saint-Amour, and others emphasize diegesis and form, this article arg...

Earlier this year I had an essay in English Studies on The Contact Collection of Contemporary Writers (1925), an anthology of mostly modernist writing, and the press have given me this link for 50 free ecopies of the essay. Have a look, if that sounds interesting? www.tandfonline.com/eprint/2EQP3...

UNSW LITERARY PROVOCATIONS HUB SEMINAR #5

"The New Modernist Novel: Criticism and the Task of Reading"
Elizabeth Pender (Sydney)

Wednesday, 16 July
3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Robert Webster 335, UNSW Main Campus

There's no need to register, and all are welcome. Come along!

Ha! 🤣

Oh, thanks, @kristingrogan.bsky.social!

Will says, You're home!

It's a small thing, I know, but I can't say how much it meant to see a teenager reading Swann's Way as we were getting off the train at Macarthur in the middle of the afternoon, and so engrossed that I couldn't even catch his eye to say, "Isn't it just wonderful?"

Yes!

If you had to pick the half dozen best statements on the task of literary criticism from, say, 1700 to today, what would they be?

What should contemporary criticism do with the novels of Djuna Barnes, Mina Loy, and John Rodker, too often ignored by earlier critics? Read Simon During's review of Liz Pender's THE NEW MODERNIST NOVEL: CRITICISM AND THE TASK OF READING, just published in AFFIRMATIONS: tinyurl.com/bdd9hda3.

Hello and hugs from the Campbelltown train at midday on a sunny Tuesday xox

"pine seed splitting cliff's edge"?!

di Prima, Revolutionary Letters #19:

if what you want is jobs
for everyone, you are still the enemy,
you have not thought thru, clearly
what that means

When Joshua Clover visited UNSW in 2019, he gave a seminar to postgraduate students on, in the broadest terms, poetry and the world-system, and on, more narrowly, Baraka and di Prima, and on, most of all, a single sentence from Revolutionary Letters #19. It was wonderful, and he'll be much missed.