Marxist Geographer David Harvey on the G20, the Financial Crisis and Neoliberalism.

There was a time when access to the Bible was considered the unchallenged prerogative of the Church. Free access to the Bible was considered dangerous by the authorities. Today the problem is posed at the level of knowledge in general, which is to say at the level of language. Language has become the foundation of life. Everything has become linguistic and biopolitical. And the authorities consider as dangerous everything that lies within reach of the poor, which is to say those who have no other wealth than their life. — Antonio Negri

Came across this today CanLit blog hopping. It’s quite a riot.

Thanks to Greg Betts for posting this first in Oct ‘08.

The new issue, Canadian Special, of ActionYes is up online, curated by François Luong. The issue features a lovely assortment of Canadian poets, including five poems my newest crop with the working title ‘the reality series’.

Other Can poets in the issue include:

Daniel Canty, Angela Carr, Jason Christie, Sarah Dowling,  Darren Wershler-Henry & Bill Kennedy, Ray Hsu, Sonnet L’Abbé, Chantal Neveu, A. Rawlings, glenN robsoN, Hector Ruiz, Jenny Sampirisi, Jordan Scott, Angela Szczepaniak, François Turcot.

This:

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The recent circulation of Paul Zukofsky’s threat to graduate students and his philistine, preposterous, name calling of intelligent people who work in the arts has generated a substantial uproar—one can only hope he recognizes that his demands aren’t legal.

But in case he hasn’t, here is another response:

As you wish Mr. Zukofsky

This blog is fantastic. Harper Valley: http://harpervalley.wordpress.com/

Check it out if you have time.

Some ass-wipe came into 112 Hastings before the KSW workshop a couple of weeks ago and claimed he invented the word “Influency.” He threatened to take legal action. I don’t think he had a case. First of all, the word was InfluencyWest, not “Influency” in and of itself. And second of all, you can’t copyright a word. Series, books, movies and songs can recycle the same title until writers turn blue in the face, there’s nothing you can do about it. I suspect Jason and Jordan didn’t want to deal with it. So the name has been changed to RespondencyWest.

Here is the website: http://respondencywest.wordpress.com/

The man is clearly insane. What the hell does he think he’s going to get out of this? His precious little word. When he croaks we can write it on a little piece of paper and put it in his palm so he’s buried with it. That way he can have his little word, all his, to no effect, forever and ever.

And since I’m on the topic of non-reality-based legalities, check out Paul Zukofsky’s philistine threat to stop grad students from quoting Louis Zukofsky in their disserations, followed by his attack on literature, the humanities and academia at large: http://www.z-site.net/copyright-notice-by-pz/

And check out this awesome response (it’s a bit long, but try to watch the first 10 minutes at least): http://zenslum.googlepages.com/ezpz

Short Line Reading Series

Fall ‘09 Edition

Join us on Thursday, October 22, 2009 at the Railway Club (579 Dunsmuir) for the next installment of the Short Line Reading Series.

6:30PM – 8:30PM
Admission: FREE

Readings by:
Ken Belford - Lan(d)guage: a sequence of poetics (2008)
Glen Lowry - Pacific Avenue (2009)
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CBC News – British Columbia – Anti-Olympic signs could mean jail: rights group

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This is appalling. I believe this law officially disqualifies BC from any status that resembles democracy.