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Page 12.5. Academic Contexts II. bit.ly/46maTEI

Page 12.4: Academic Contexts II. Continuing my effort to answer the "blog"; the difficulty continues. bit.ly/3JI1zSQ

Page 12.3: Academic Contexts I. Off my desk and into virtual space: my effort to take down the anonymous blog, answering the seven faculty who posted on it. This is difficult material, as are and were the times. bit.ly/4pmVgEL

I am uploading my syllabus, minus boilerplate plus some notes about my course and teaching in general. Fourteen weeks is not enough, obviously! I am looking ahead and back but also to the ongoing middle of Language writing and its offshoots, controversies, and reception after 2000. bit.ly/4n2TpCJ

Document 108: Global Poetics CFP. Proposal for a multi-session seminar at ACLA, Montréal, February 26–March 1, 2026 with link to portal; deadline October 2. Organized by Barrett Watten and Lauri Scheyer. Circulate widely! bit.ly/4mzKg4K

Due to popular demand: a page of "Language Notes" on my fall teaching, and links to pdfs of the eight parts of Eleana Kim's excellent history of Language writing up to 1994. Thanks to Nada Tzirre Gordon for keeping it alive up to this very moment. bit.ly/4oEm56N

Seminar is up: "Radical Particularity and Global Poetics: Critical Regions of Cultural Transmission"; click here: bit.ly/47p0okX

Writing up a seminar proposal for ACLA (due today, btw); here's the title: “RADICAL PARTICULARITY AND GLOBAL POETICS: CRITICAL REGIONS OF CULTURAL TRANSMISSION.” Stay tuned for the portal for submitting paper proposals, coming August 26.

The second installment of my replies to literary persons on the "blog," starting with the best-known figure. An act of radical self-reflection as one may also imagine. In one case, I ask for readers' help in identifying the author of a post. bit.ly/4lDlhNy

Some forgotten myth prompts me to take on this task: here I begin my response to the literary persons who signed on to the "blog"—not comfortable but clarifying is my hope. bit.ly/4f5uFaw

President Trump will be suing the Wall Street Journal, News Corp and Mr Murdoch shortly.

Video: Documenting L.A.’s Surge in Immigration Arrests Jennifer Medina, a political reporter at The New York Times who is based in Los Angeles, speaks with a witness who recorded an immigration raid near a Home Depot.

This. www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...

With Scott DeGregoris's stellar defense today of "Property Value(s)," a project that connects cultural logic of the single-family home and lot to perspectives far beyond Detroit, I have now completed 15 dissertation projects at Wayne State. Yes!

A memorial page for Cole Heinowitz, written within the three-week window of memory: bit.ly/4lxgzAC

I'm pleased to announce the forthcoming defense of Scott DeGregoris's dissertation, "Property Value(s): Race, Class, and Political Economy in Narratives of the Single-Family and Lot," scheduled for Friday, July 11, at Wayne State and online. The public is welcome to attend. Scan for Zoom link.

This detailed account of my interactions with Joshua Clover at the 2013 MLA is the beginning of my attempt to "take down the blog," and leave in its place whatever can be salvaged from it. bit.ly/43z9ERg

Alice Notley as "poet of the 70s." By that I mean: between Person and Language.

Alice Notley.

"This Tragedy Is Farce": updates on the "blog" and appeal that it be ended: bit.ly/4jlpHHa

A page to document and reflect on the series of seminars I offered at Wayne State University. bit.ly/4kkth52

Administration attempt to eliminate foreign exchanges and the Fulbright program. fulbright.org/status?mc_ci...

There can be no going back. By next year the organization's size must double. We have a simple choice before us. —from Grand Piano part 2, section 1. I am hoping to add more such passages to a post on "My Left Credentials" over the weekend; stay tuned.

Half the people. in the room read revolutionary newspapers as the speaker addressed them, while the other half listened attentively. He went on: now is the time the movement for revolutionary change must commence.

Two million people, according to mass media, had been forced to evacuate Phnom Penh. The speaker interpreted this report in a positive light: Khmer Rouge authorities were only trying to prevent disease and panic.

On 1 May 1975, I attended a public meeting of a communist organization. The Fall of Saigon, of course, did not simply coincide with that date; it had been taking place for weeks. The meeting was in a rented hall on Telegraph Avenue in Oakland.

50th anniversary of the Fall of Saigon coming up. That is something I will be paying attention to—1975 + 50, an epoch.

This is also a description of Coolidge's writing, especially the Long Work. But in any case, I was there--you weren't!

Andry José Hernández Romero

Andry José Hernández Romero, I remember you, even if I do not know how to articulate my horror, rage, & sorrow at your treatment by my government.

No one has heard from you in 43 days.

As vigil, I’m posting a photo of you every day until you are returned from El Salvador.

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