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Experimental Criticism Symposium

Vol. 1 // Digital Launch

  • EVENT VIDEOS
  • Vol. 1

PROGRAM

JAN. 21st / 1-2 EST

Performative and Objectified Critique

[EVENT VIDEO]

Co-Hosted with Nightboat Books

Sophie Seita: Decals of Love, or, the One True Imposter: a lyric lecture on Wendy Lotterman’s poems

Jordan Scott: Lanterns at Guantanamo

Adra Raine:  Leaves of Grass in Decolonial American English: An Experiment

Kazim Ali:  Selections from Anais Nin: An Unprofessional Study

 

JAN. 29th / 1-2 EST

[EVENT VIDEO]

Critical Manifestos

Co-Hosted with BC Editions

Andrea Quaid:  Holding Relations

Ronaldo Wilson:  Selections from The Conservation of Mass

Cristina Rivera Garza:  Disappropriation for Beginners

Simon Palfrey: Beyond Criticism

 

FEB. 4th / 1-2 EST

[EVENT VIDEO]

Subjective Criticism

Co-Hosted with SPAM zine & press

Julie Carr:  Ghosts

Colin Dayan:  Visceral Identities

Jim Miranda:  Waiting: Migration and Time in Four Motions

Ali Graham: This glint of light on the cut

 

FEB. 11th / 1-2 EST

[EVENT VIDEO]

Multilingual Criticism

Co-Hosted with Pamenar Press

Lindsay Turner: trans. The Third Eyelid

Robin Myers: trans. Disappropriation for Beginners

Carlos Soto-Román: On Colectivo Frank Ocean

Ghazal Mosedeq: On multilingual critique

 

FEB. 18th / 1-2 EST

[EVENT VIDEO]

The Literary Visual

Co-Hosted with diSONARE

Madelaine Longman: On Confession: Exorcising Shame in the Art of Tracey Emin and Carmen Maria Machado

Peter Szendy: The Third Eyelid

Mark Harris: Rebellious Type: the visual acoustics of Kamau Brathwaite’s typographic derangements 

Tatina Vázquez Estrada: Visual Design and Critical Publications 

 

FEB. 25th / 1-2 EST

[EVENT VIDEO]

On Form

Co-Hosted with the87press

Ella Longpre: My Atempopoeia: Reading Jane Gregory’s My Enemies and Lyn Hejinian’s My Life Against Time, Sequence, Signal 

Edwin Torres: What Breaks, Still: World-Making as Poetic Interruption 

Jeffrey Pethybridge: In the Epic [II & IV] 

Dhanveer Brar: Beefy’s Tune (Dean Blunt Edit) 

MARCH 4th / 1-2 EST

[EVENT VIDEO]

On Publishing Critical Experiments: A Conversation

—Moderated by Jennifer Scappettone—

Jenny Cookson and Emma Gomis: MANIFOLD

Azad Sharma: the 87Press

Lucía Hinojosa Gaxiola and Diego Gerard: diSONARE

Maria Sledmere and Kirsty Dunlop: SPAM

Stephen Motika: Nightboat Books

Ghazal Mosadeq: Pamenar Press

Simon Palfrey: BC Editions