The continuing adventures of engagement with small books. As in the first installment, I mentioned I carry just as much interest in “zines” as something determinedly named a “chapbook” and…
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Small Reviews of Small Books
by M Kitchell May 25, 2015I’m a fan of small books. Whether this means a short book, a chapbook, a novella, a “novel” that is only 20 pages (consider Bataille’s Madame Edwarda or Marguerite Duras’s…
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THE HAUNTED HOUSE: WEEK SIX
“We remain in the Night that is in the Night: Laruelle’s Experimental Texts”by M Kitchell May 22, 2014I’ve been interested in François Laruelle since he hit my radar, probably around the time Urbanomic, with Sequence Press published The Concept of Non-Photography. I ordered a copy and slowly…
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THE HAUNTED HOUSE: WEEK FIVE
“Hunting the Void”by M Kitchell May 8, 2014In the June afternoon I walked through—at least three times—“DESTROY THE PICTURE: PAINTING THE VOID, 1949-1962,” an exhibition at Los Angeles’s MOCA. The show was great. Afterward, I tentatively wandered…
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THE HAUNTED HOUSE: WEEK FOUR
“Laughter in the face of Dying, Death in the face of Laughing”by M Kitchell April 25, 2014I spent the last few weeks working my way through Michel Surya’s brilliant 1984 biography of Georges Bataille. In French, the subtitle of the book is “la mort à l’oeuvre,”…
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THE HAUNTED HOUSE: WEEK THREE
“The Perfect Death”by M Kitchell April 10, 2014TEN THINGS I KNOW ABOUT JAMES LEE BYARS 1) “The Death of James Lee Byars,” a performance piece by James Lee Byars, carries very simple instructions: ‘Quietly lie down and…
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THE HAUNTED HOUSE: WEEK TWO
“The trace (of the book,) left in life by an enigmatic experience,” Part 2by M Kitchell April 3, 2014OR: CULMINATION IN THE ZERO DEGREE OF OBLIVION I left off, in part one of this essay, on a thought that the book, in considering certain conceptual moves, is alive.…
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THE HAUNTED HOUSE: WEEK ONE
“The trace (of the book,) left in life by an enigmatic experience,” Part 1by M Kitchell March 27, 2014There is an idea that the book is an immovable object, as if the book were a heavy stone. An idea that, aside from mistakes, a books as it is…
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I awoke this morning, far too early, in sweat, my stomach churning, my body sending my brain signals that something was wrong. I sat upright, moaned to darkness, and went…