<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005"><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post114375629392267190..comments</id><updated>2011-07-13T16:13:18.645-04:00</updated><title type='text'>Comments on Silliman&#39;s Blog: </title><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/feeds/comments/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114375629392267190/comments/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/wattens-braxton.html'/><link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/"/><author><name>Unknown</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>5</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114392775630683158</id><published>2006-04-01T16:42:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-04-01T16:42:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Well, the race is, what&#39;s the phrase? To the runne...</title><summary type='text'>Well, the race is, what&#39;s the phrase? To the runners, I guess. &quot;But for something to read...?&quot; Long lines of footsore consumers, empty shelves. So-called normal circumstances. Bad history.</summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114375629392267190/comments/default/114392775630683158'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114375629392267190/comments/default/114392775630683158'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/wattens-braxton.html?showComment=1143927720000#c114392775630683158' title=''/><author><name>Kirk Johnson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05529898733002317995</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/wattens-braxton.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114375629392267190' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114375629392267190' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-895736745"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 01, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114392035687533972</id><published>2006-04-01T14:39:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-04-01T14:39:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I don&#39;t think it&#39;s &quot;irresponsibility&quot;--that would ...</title><summary type='text'>I don&#39;t think it&#39;s &quot;irresponsibility&quot;--that would be Watten&#39;s argument, I think (?).  I merely note that encorporating the characteristics of one&#39;s earlier (experimental) work into a continuing description of &quot;revolutionary&quot; poetics may have a self-serving side, since it tends to legitimate one&#39;s own aesthetic at the expense of another.  Honestly, I don&#39;t think Watten had a clear idea where his </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114375629392267190/comments/default/114392035687533972'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114375629392267190/comments/default/114392035687533972'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/wattens-braxton.html?showComment=1143920340000#c114392035687533972' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/wattens-braxton.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114375629392267190' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114375629392267190' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="April 01, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114382132452204352</id><published>2006-03-31T11:08:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-31T11:08:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Curtis, I follow your inside/outside metaphor, whi...</title><summary type='text'>Curtis, I follow your inside/outside metaphor, which I can read as an apt description of Watten&#39;s position vis a vis his theoretical works or his poetry. The poet half-asleep at his instrument table, in Ashbery&#39;s phrase. But to equate that with aesthetic irresponsibility would seem to suggest that any constructivist project, however theorized, would be subject to a charge of, well, call it </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114375629392267190/comments/default/114382132452204352'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114375629392267190/comments/default/114382132452204352'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/wattens-braxton.html?showComment=1143821280000#c114382132452204352' title=''/><author><name>Kirk Johnson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05529898733002317995</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/wattens-braxton.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114375629392267190' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114375629392267190' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-895736745"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 31, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114381498495269021</id><published>2006-03-31T09:23:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-31T09:23:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I think Watten&#39;s dilemma has been to construct a t...</title><summary type='text'>I think Watten&#39;s dilemma has been to construct a theory of poetics in which the vulnerability of the poet to charges of biography, condition and aesthetic, could be deflected by technique.  Making the writer proof against the limits of history, formal &quot;expression&quot; and/or tired notions of body, personality and theory.  To be inside and outside of history at the same time.  Inside: Responsible for </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114375629392267190/comments/default/114381498495269021'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114375629392267190/comments/default/114381498495269021'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/wattens-braxton.html?showComment=1143814980000#c114381498495269021' title=''/><author><name>Curtis Faville</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/01813159652010352331</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/wattens-braxton.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114375629392267190' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114375629392267190' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-1749964855"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 31, 2006"/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114378533967297171</id><published>2006-03-31T01:08:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-31T01:08:00.000-05:00</updated><title type='text'>&quot;The turn to culture in literature and the arts, a...</title><summary type='text'>&quot;The turn to culture in literature and the arts, and specifically language-centered writing and improvised musics, coincides with a call to specify the cultural logic from which a given aesthetic practice derives and in which it intervenes. Interdisciplinarity is not merely the posing of questions outside cultural forms, genres, and disciplines toward their eventual revision or even </summary><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114375629392267190/comments/default/114378533967297171'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/114375629392267190/comments/default/114378533967297171'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/wattens-braxton.html?showComment=1143785280000#c114378533967297171' title=''/><author><name>Kirk Johnson</name><uri>https://www.blogger.com/profile/05529898733002317995</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='https://img1.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:in-reply-to xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0' href='https://ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2006/03/wattens-braxton.html' ref='tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3738579.post-114375629392267190' source='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3738579/posts/default/114375629392267190' type='text/html'/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.itemClass" value="pid-895736745"/><gd:extendedProperty name="blogger.displayTime" value="March 31, 2006"/></entry></feed>