And the complete interview (1:06:36): MP3. Here is the link to PennSound's Perloff page.
Wednesday, October 06, 2010
radical artifice and other topics, 1991
We at PennSound have just segmented an interview with Marjorie Perloff conducted by Aldon Nielsen for the Incognito Lounge in Palo Alto, CA, November 12, 1991. Here are the clips:
introduction by A.L. Nielsen (0:51): MP3
work on Frank O'Hara (7:13): MP3
"The Futurist Moment, poetic movements, and marginalized works (7:47): MP3
"The Poetics of Indeterminacy" and John Cage (15:02): MP3
the avant-garde and post-modernism (7:57): MP3
"The Radical Artifice," poetic language, and authentic speech (13:16): MP3
L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets (7:42): MP3
Wittenstein and Gertrude Stein (6:52): MP3
And the complete interview (1:06:36): MP3. Here is the link to PennSound's Perloff page.
And the complete interview (1:06:36): MP3. Here is the link to PennSound's Perloff page.
"I teach horizontally, meaning that while I might begin with a fixed idea of what I'm going to teach that day, I let it drift rhizomatically way off topic, often pulling it back when it gets too far. I rely on non-fixed materials to teach this way; the whole world is at my fingertips. Should I go off on a tangent about John and Rauschenberg and their love relationship as expressed in Rauschenberg's bed, an image of that bed is always a click away. From there, we can head anywhere into the non-fixed universe, be it film, text or sound. And of course, that always takes us elsewhere. As Cage says, 'We are getting nowhere fast.'" 
that anyone has yet got the imaginative measure of that terrifying day six years ago. Certainly our Tolstoy has not crawled out of the rubble. The closest we have, Don DeLillo, succeeded as an essayist-journalist ("In the Ruins of the Future: Reflections on Terror and Loss in the Shadow of September,” Harper’s, December 2001) but, to my mind, failed as a novelist ("Falling Man"). One reason, perhaps, is that the remembered emotion was instantly buried under a pile of cultural junk.' - Tod Gitlin in his review of Susan Faludi's The Terror Dream (written for 
