Keegan Cook Finberg

Holding copies of two kickass books in front of more books.

recent paragraph factory productions by excellent people

It was the great “as though,” the how the day went,
The excursions of the police
As I pursued my bodily functions, wanting
Neither fire nor water,
Vibrating to the distant pinch
And turning out the way I am, turning out to greet you.

John Ashbery, "The Chateau Hardware”

Truly the best feeling!

The book “Poetry in General: How a Literary Form Became Public” by Keegan Cook Finberg next to a vase of matching orange, white, and yellow dahlias and daisies.

My author copies have not arrived but folks are sending me pictures of my book arriving in their homes. I am so grateful for these readers!

This was such a great convo with @danieldenvir.bsky.social & @alfatau.bsky.social! Please check it out!

I’d be curious how that goes also! A lot to discuss there

Sounds like a fun class! I have wondered how Ben Lerner’s Hatred of Poetry would teach in a context like this.

I have some things to contribute as well!

“O Captain! My Captain!” Speeches (awake in bed trying to compose riveting first day of school remarks, prefatory to deeper conversations as the term proceeds? here’s a template to adapt!) Gen AI is marketed as a tool of effi…

This whole website is making me feel less alone in my resistance to AI in my classroom. This page in particular is legitimizing what was previously feeling like a personal rant I was going to make my students sit through…

against-a-i.com/first-day-sp...

AGAINST AI

teachers!

excited to share a new website at this late date of Aug 15 to try to help us collectively prepare for back to school in the interpretative humanities classroom assaulted by the AI grift, so we don't have to go it alone.

take a look, share, + most importantly: CONTRIBUTE
against-a-i.com

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How do we privilege the site of thinking, muddling through, etc, in our course materials in a way that students really see that’s what we are after?

This thread about AI 💯

theory nerds! propose fall events! we host mini seminars, field trips, book talks, works-in-progress sessions, and reading groups. guest suite for out-of-towners! booktour bringing you to chicago? add us to your list! wedding weekend? fill it out with research!

to propose: interccect at gmail

thank you!

That makes me so happy to hear! thank you!

Poetry in General | Columbia University Press In the second half of the twentieth century, poetry leapt out of books and became an interdisciplinary public form. Poetry entered bureaucratic systems of or... | CUP

My book Poetry in General: How a Literary Form Became Public is available for pre-order! I am excited to share it with the world. Find it on the Columbia UP site with endorsements from Anthony Reed, Leigh Claire La Berge, Sarah Dowling and Craig Dworkin cup.columbia.edu/book/poetry-...

Thanks so much!

Thank you!

This double sense of “general” characterizes the aesthetic and political stakes of my argument: as some public forms degraded, poetry spilled into ever more areas of public life and into multiple media and disciplines.

My phrase “poetry in general” serves a twofold purpose: it refers to the interdisciplinary turn in poetry as art reached a phase of dematerialization, and it pertains to the common, as constitutive of a public, where a public is in flux and shaped by state power.

It argues that in the second half of the 20th C, poetry becomes general as it works through a series of changing tactics to resist, respond to, and interpret shifts in the state’s facilitation of capitalism.

Poetry in General | Columbia University Press In the second half of the twentieth century, poetry leapt out of books and became an interdisciplinary public form. Poetry entered bureaucratic systems of or... | CUP

My book Poetry in General: How a Literary Form Became Public is available for pre-order! I am excited to share it with the world. Find it on the Columbia UP site with endorsements from Anthony Reed, Leigh Claire La Berge, Sarah Dowling and Craig Dworkin cup.columbia.edu/book/poetry-...

Very excited for this!!

Have been sitting with this beautiful thread by @reallandsend.bsky.social No one should have to care for children alone. If we are to speak of family abolition, let it be towards the possibility of collective care, based in the everyday practice of sharing life with children.

prepositions, enigmatic, 62-64, 191n91 preservationism, 88-92 privatization, 3-4, 6-7, 12-14; of American life, 43; of architectural spaces, 12-14, 70, 81-83, 195nn43-44; of education, 13; and gender, 14; of interpretation, 126-50; and poetry, 3, 18, 128 procedural poetry, 14, 95-125 procedural reading, 28, 33 prosopopoeia, 61 protest: and Mechanical Turk, 141; Occupy Movement, 2-3, 83; Standing Rock, 1; student, 2. See also Carving: A Traditional Sculpture (Antin); Davis, Wendy, Let Her Speak (Counterpath); Mechanical Turk public good: abortion and the, 13; neoliberalism vs. the, 34; poetry and the, 18 purity: and the body, 125; Critique of Pure Reason, 101, 107-8, 10; pure media, 15, 22, 27, 36, 38; and use value, 155, 167

I’m posting one more shot of this beautiful index. From prepositions to purity

Tonight!!

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Yes! This one looks great

I have been wanting to order! 😍