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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
In the current print issue of boundary 2, Mark B. N. Hansen on Bernard Stiegler.
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.
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.
boundary 2 is proud and honored to announce that novelist Nuruddin Farah has joined the Editorial Board.
Below, he reads from his novels Maps and Crossbones at last year’s Fall 2013 conference: Legacies of the Future: The Life and Work of Edward Said.
