Went to a day (Friday) of the Rethinking Poetics conference.
Highlights:
1. Rodrigo Toscano / Alan Golding's (tongue in cheek?) suggestion for a "report back from our industries." More useful to share experiences from within our positions as neoliberal-subject-people than rationalizing anxious circles through aesthetics around the scraps of privilege ($$ & social/intellectual capital) that are left?
2. Joshua Clover's insistence that we stave off endless nuance and keep antagonisms alive, and fresh.
3. Jena Osman's provisional term "echolocation."
Thinking a lot about MOBILIZING as an alternate term to either "antagonism" or the kumbaya-like "coming together" (preserve the antagonism, but orient it better, tactically?).
Wish I had been there for the ecology panel. Would've loved to hear Andrew Schelling talk about bioregionalism, in particular.
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