The b2o Review is pleased to announce the publication of a dossier about Charles Bernstein’s book The Kinds of Poetry I Want. Titled “Kind of Bernstein”, the dossier brings together a set of responses to a book of contrarian and frequently funny criticism by a poet and thinker who has been a friend of b2 and b2o for many years. The dossier was facilitated by Paul Bové and Arne De Boever and includes contributions by Kacper Bartczak, Michael Davidson, Al Filreis, Elin Käck, Andrew Levy, Bob Perelman, and Mark Wallace, with a coda by Trace Peterson–plus the inevitable response by Charles Bernstein himself.
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A Space of Poetry: An Interview With Douglas Messerli
Read A Space of Poetry: An Interview With Douglas Messerli. This interview was conducted by Martin Nakell [March-June 2022].
Also see the boundary 2 special issue on Charles Bernstein (volume 48, issue 4); and, Douglas Messerli’s poems “Carried Away” (boundary 2: volume 14, issue 1/2) and “Scared Cows” (boundary 2: volume 26, issue 1).
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Charles Bernstein in Different Reflections with Bengali Poets
Read the boundary 2 special issue “Charles Bernstein: The Poetry of Idiomatic Insistences” (volume 48, issue 4), which features Runa Bandyopadhya’s essay “Pataquericalism: Quantum Coherence between the East and West,” among others.
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An Interview with Nuruddin Farah
Recently, Nuruddin Farah, a member of the boundary 2 editorial board, had a lively discussion with Marius Chivu about recent and upcoming fiction with the Romanian program All U Can Read.
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Arif Dirlik – The Rise of China and the End of the World As We Know It
On February 27, 2016, longstanding boundary 2 board member Arif Dirlik gave his final lecture at the University of British Columbia. The talk, The Rise of China and the End of the World As We Know It, is available in full on the UBC Library’s website.
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March 2: Brian T. Edwards — Trump, Twitter, Circulation
On March 2, Professor Brian T. Edwards of Northwestern University will give a talk titled Trump, Twitter, Circulation: American Politics as Global Entertainment.
The global circulation of Donald Trump’s political rhetoric ruptured the divide between American popular culture and US politics. This marks the postscript to the “American century,” during which the attractiveness of American culture had positive political benefits for the US. In the age of Trump, the US political system itself became a horrible form of global entertainment.
Professor Edwards will speak at the University of Pittsburgh at 5pm on March 2, 2017 in the Humanities Center (Cathedral of Learning 602). boundary 2 will also livestream the talk here.
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Mark B. N. Hansen — Bernard Stiegler, Philosopher of Desire?
In the current print issue of boundary 2, Mark B. N. Hansen on Bernard Stiegler.
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Announcing Our Winter Issue: Econophonia: Music, Value, and Forms of Life
This issue theorizes what questions of value might contribute to our understanding of sound and music. Divesting sound and music from notions of intrinsic value, the contributors follow various avenues through which sound and music produce value in and as history, politics, ethics, epistemology, and ontology. As a result, the very question of what sound and music are—what constitutes them, as well as what they constitute—is at stake. Contributors examine the politics of music and crowds, the metaphysics of sensation, the ecological turn in music studies, and the political resistance inherent to sound; connect Karl Marx to black music and slave labor; look at Marx, the Marx Brothers, and fetishism; and explore the tension between the voice of the Worker who confronts Capital head-on and the voices of actual workers.
Contributors include Amy Cimini, Bill Dietz, Jairo Moreno, Rosalind Morris, Ana María Ochoa Gautier, Ronald Radano, Gavin Steingo, Peter Szendy, Gary Tomlinson, and Naomi Waltham-Smith.
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Arne De Boever joins b2 as Advisory Editor
boundary 2 is proud and honored to announce that Arne De Boever has become an Advisory Editor.
Arne De Boever works on contemporary American fiction and critical theory and teaches at the California Institute of the Arts, where he also directs the MA Aesthetics and Politics program. His books include States of Exception in the Contemporary Novel and Narrative Care: Biopolitics and the Novel.
