Will the Real Tate Britain Step Forward?
On Saturday January 17th at 4.30 p.m., the INS Joint Declaration on Inauthenticity, by Tom McCarthy and Simon Critchley (above), is to be delivered in the Clore Auditorium of Tate Britain. This is the statement, originally delivered in The Drawing Center, New York, that Zadie Smith goes on about at some length in her recent […]
An Icelandic Personal Culture: An Interview with Eileen Myles
Oh, for better or worse we are trained to use the actual pattern of our thoughts. We don’t just take positions, we describe how they occurred. I think there’s a real community in every poet. Like… that multiplicity of positions that is an individual is not a suppressed element in our speech or discourse. I think politicians (and newscasters and much of the talk that goes on in public political life) is endlessly creating a myth that simple hard positions are possible, manly, and necessary. In a really complex time they are dumbing down thinking. What a disservice!
Sophie Erskine interviews the poet Eileen Myles.