The essay as

An essay of mine (based on a conference paper given at The Art of the Real in Newcastle, May 2008) has been published here at TEXT.

critical animals

the full this is not art program is live here

& critical animals events are listed here

& it will be a wonderful weekend

please do come!

new solipsism

as many of you know, on the twenty-fourth
of this eleventh month
my role as myself will be up for re-election.
i hereby pledge the following election promises:
to my lover, i promise to be forty-percent more sassy.
i will add a further fifteen minutes to
our weekly love-making time,
i will be twice as effective in quashing anxieties,
and i will be less abrasive in respects
to your sleeping habits.
to my cat i promise to begin a ‘pet revolution’,
to my neighbour i declare the beginning
of a ‘ladder of witty greetings’,
to my flatmates i will impose a zero-
tolerance approach to floating
poos left in the toilet bowl, and to
cat hair and loud noise and crumbs.
to my parents i promise thirty more
phonecalls per house per annum
and downward pressure on surliness and
childishness.

the poetics of liveliness

my review of the material poem has been published here at jacket magazine.

the material poem ; non-generic ; objecthood

the material poem, a collection of experimental poetics and inter-media art works, has just been published online (for free download) by james stuart at non-generic productions. the twenty-eight artists have submitted work which engages with ‘the poem’ in terms of its objecthood and materiality (including new babylon sydney by the very hunky nick keys). there’s a meaty file here of material goodness, so download it and check it out.