The Tit Bars and After
After arriving in LA, I saw a chance to make my own money, and that seemed better for me than the tenure-track line. I bought apartment buildings that give me some rental income, and that allows me to decide when to teach, and for whom. I’d be in a very different position now as a writer if I didn’t have that income. I always felt strongly about the singularity of my work, and knew it wouldn’t be easily fundable. Which means you have to either have family money, or marriage money, or make your own. It takes a long time for me to write a book – as much as five years. I write catalogue essays and journalism for extra income in between, and give lectures and readings, but if I were completely dependent on that income, my work would be completely different. I couldn’t do the work I do now without an independent income. This is awkward, maybe, to disclose, but I think it’s important – especially in the US people are led to believe that there’s something wrong with their work if it doesn’t result in financial security. When in fact, many of the most prominent artists and writers have relied upon outside support for at least the first part of their careers.
Alison J Carr interviews Chris Kraus.
Duos #1 – Simultaneous Writing and Simultaneous Reading
A man walked into a bide with me.
shift and the Tsunami deal. The breakfast brexity brevity. There is nobody moving
A man
through the rooms in 97, not even a blurry ghost taxing the frosted glass. The global
A man
gag has been stuffed into the mouth of poetry. What is Ian doing? Actualising
A man walked into a four year Zebra dance
Duos #1 : new collaborative poetry by Ian McMillan & Robert Sheppard.
The Alien That Therefore I Am
Organic life was born as the contingent effect of a confluence of material causes that are rationally intelligible without thereby implying an intrinsically meaningful raison d’être . David, an android named after the Michelangelo sculpture, is told by Weyland, his creator, to seek out a different answer to creation concealed beyond the Copernican sun of our galaxy. What David finds is not our alien origins, as the film suggests, but an allegory of the alienation constitutive of subjectivity.
Matt Ossias reflects on Ridley Scott’s Prometheus and subjectivity.