Informationen zur Aufzeichnung:
ICI Berlin, 12.07.2023, 19:30
Anmerkungen:
Enthält: Introduction by Mark Anthony Cayanan (06:32); Introduction by Claudia Peppel (03:08); Talk by Maggie Nelson (51:20); Discussion(41:48)
D 2023
In engl. Sprache
Beschreibung:
Rather than take up the literary world’s on and off obsession with classifications and genre demarcations, this talk will center on the relationship between ideas, things, forms, and shapes — how writing can be a practice of, as poet A. R. Ammons once put it, looking for ‘the forms|things want to come as’. What does it mean for a thing to want to come as a form? What is the relationship between the content of an idea and its shape on the page? To examine such questions, Nelson will read from a variety of her works and think about how they relate (or don’t) to poet Robert Creeley’s famous contention, ‘form is never more than an extension of content’. Possible tributary lines of thought include: the literary nature of (some) philosophy; the question of ‘vernacular scholarship’ (a term coined by Eileen Myles), various strategies of performing the self in writing; and the value of never settling, of staying on the move.