New York Talk, 300 Bowery, New York, NY

Curated and Moderated by Charles Bernstein

• Bruce Andrews (2:42:55): MP3
• Discussion: Erica Hunt, George-Thérèse Dickenson, Doug Lang, Abigail Child, Chris Kraus, Ted Greenwald, Susan Howe, Edie Jarolim, James Sherry, Jeanne Lance, Sally Silvers, Craig Bromberg.

• Susan Howe reading from "My Emily Dickinson" (1:06:46): MP3
• Discussion (57:50): MP3 (Charles Bernstein, George Butterick, Madeline Keller, Jeanne Lance, Lydia Davis, Edie Jarolim, Janet Chalmers, Eliot Weinberger, George-Thérèse Dickenson.)
1. Dickinson's mixing of pronouns (2:08): MP3
2. Dickinson and Higginson (6:52): MP3
3. shifting values and ambiguity in relation to Dickinson's writing (8:50): MP3
4. Dickinson's Master Letters (0:48): MP3
5. ambiguity and uncertainty as a different epistemological (3:06): MP3
6. sovereignty in relation to ambiguity (3:14): MP3
7. Dickinson's reclusiveness (4:23): MP3
8. the recurrence of the color white (1:20): MP3
9. working out of the English male tradition and political issues in Dickinson's poetry (4:23): MP3
10. Sewall on Mabel Loomis Todd and Austin Dickinson (2:45): MP3
11. coming to Dickinson from the perspective of a 20th century woman (5:14): MP3
12. officially accepted interpretations of Emily Dickinson (12:31): MP3
13. power in inconclusiveness (2:15): MP3

• Alan Davies (2:08:05): MP3
• Discussion: Charles Bernstein, Michael Gottlieb, Susan Bee, George-Thérèse Dickenson, Saint Claire Cemin, Ellen Andrews, James Sherry, Johan Snitzer, Erica Hunt, Abigail Child, Connie Robbins, Sal Romano, Jeanne Lance, Peter Holland, Hannah Weiner.

• Madeline Gins and Arakawa (1:57:47): MP3

• Johanna Drucker (1:02:09): MP3
• Discussion (1:13:11): MP3 (Mitch Highfill, David Abel, Bruce Andrews, Peter Frank, Alan Davies, Susan Howe, George-Thérèse Dickenson, Erica Hunt, Steve Benson.)

1. authorship and responsibility in relation to the visual presence of the text (3:44): MP3
2. Mallarme and using visual arrangements to add semantic value to a text (3:35): MP3
3. pre-19th century history of visual concrete poetry, problems of overdetermination and fetishizing of the visual image (2:14): MP3
4. Freud, Schoenberg and Moses (4:15): MP3
5. the function of the visual element in the text and the relationship between looking and the scopic drive as an important aspect for dealing with writing (1:49): MP3
6. writing as detached from the speaker, speech and memory, the materiality of visual texts (3:31): MP3
7. the presence of the author, differences between sonic and visual materiality, recuperability and interpretability (12:17): MP3
8. theatrical texts and sonic value (5:53): MP3
9. the difference in recuperability and semi-permanence between writing and speech (5:14): MP3
10. rendering text into speech, sound poetry, and visual specificity (3:05): MP3
11. the permanence of the text, new technology, and the material activity of inscription (4:25): MP3
12. the fallibility of memory, the autonomy of the written text and the cultural problem of venerating the written text as absolute (7:42): MP3
13. how we perceive written texts and suppressing visual qualities for the practical reason of reading (4:06): MP3
14. notation, tone, and the alphabet (4:09): MP3
15. numbers, letters, Kabbalah and computer science (5:23): MP3
16. clarifying the term "negotiation" (1:40): MP3

Also of Interest

• St. Mark's Talks
• Segue Series at the Ear Inn

These recordings were made by Charles Bernstein and are available for noncommercial and educational use only. All rights to this recorded material belong to the authors. © 2012. Used with the permission of the featured authors. Distributed by PennSound.