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By Andrew Hodgson, Contributing Editor @andhodgson Stumbling into the home stretch of the PhD, I gather it might be best to stack all the books out of arm’s reach, as is the tendency of the researcher to read too much and write too little, or maybe I have that the wrong way. Either one, being an arch-procrastinator, there is a modest pile I perpetually intend to get around. Today I am reading Pol Bury’s Les petits moutons blancs qui sortent en rang du lavoir, which is accompanied by eight illustrations of Chairman Mao slowly turning into a potato. In a

By Susan Tomaselli, 3:AM Editor-at-Large; Founder and Editor of gorse @STomaselli I’m grappling with an essay on Antonin Artaud’s disastrous 1937 trip to Ireland for gorse no. 2, so I’m reading my way through as much of his work as I can stand, leaning heavily on the Susan Sontag edited Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings. A book I stumbled on by chance (I’m refracting Artaud’s shenanigans through their portrayal in film, as pictured above), and can’t recommend highly enough, is Maggie Nelson’s The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning, a fascinating work that takes in Artaud, Francis Bacon, Marina Abramović, Sylvia Plath,

By David Winters, Co-Editor-in-Chief @davidcwinters It’s that time of year again: over the next week or so, we’ll be running a series of posts detailing what 3:AM’s editorial team are reading over the summer. We’ve recently recruited some brilliant new editors, including Joanna Walsh and K. Thomas Kahn, so you’ll be hearing from them, as well as from other 3:AM regulars. I’ll kick off the series (and being as I’m mainly reading academic books at the moment, I hope this won’t be too boring!) Right now I’m halfway through Knox Peden‘s Spinoza Contra Phenomenology (Stanford), a bold reinterpretation of the

Kenneth Goldsmith on the poetics of appropriation (video). * Edouard Lev é‘s Oeuvres. * An interview with Simon Critchley. * Lydia Davis: “Often, I immediately fictionalized something real in my own situation, as practice, or as a way of starting on a story”. * The William H. Gass interviews. * Kevin Breathnach on not reviewing William H. Gass’s On Being Blue. * Roland Topor‘s illustrations. *   3:AM‘s David Winters reviews Gabriel Josipovici’s Hotel Andromeda. * New 3:AM editor K. Thomas Kahn on reading Doris Lessing. * An extract from Joanna Walsh‘s Break.up. * Brian Dillon interviewed over at Gorse.

3:AM‘s Poetry Editor extraordinaire, SJ Fowler has published a new collection: A groundbreaking, aberrant but ever ebullient love letter to those who deserve it, The Rottweiler’s Guide to the Dog Owner refracts marriage, death, friendship, violence and love through SJ Fowler‘s modernist poetic in an attempt to encapsulate the Poundian enterprise of all experience, no matter its grandiosity or banality, as feed for poetry. Utterly contemporary, rapid, concise, this collection of poetry suites is a massive, savage world of language and meaning miniaturised and recapitulated – this is a poetry of disjunctive affection, misshapen intimacy and the awkward music of

Page from Marcel Proust’s notebook  I’m extremely honored to be joining 3:AM as a contributing editor. To me, 3:AM has always published cutting-edge work—especially with regard to nonfiction, criticism, reviews, interviews, and those pieces that blur all preexisting lines—and it’s in that same vein that I would love to read work to consider for publication here. In particular, I am very much interested in nonfiction that falls (roughly) into the following categories: —Literature in translation, especially fiction —Literary and cultural theory/criticism —Poetics; ars poetica; linguistics —Interviews with authors and translators —Film, especially European cinema past and present —Gender and sexuality

6 Jun 2014 1:00 pm | Studio | The ICA, The Mall, London SW1 Writer and novelist Michael Bracewell talks about aspects of arts publishing, with reference to the subcultures and Style press of the 1980s. “Style culture had created a world I didn’t have a role in. I never went to clubs, I wasn’t interested in fashion. I was interested in the idea of aspirational types. I started reading E.M. Forster and it seemed to me that everything he had been writing about fitted. How suburbia breeds muddle and that muddle is real, an absolute, in-your-face 24 carat cosmic

The Invisible Book. * On Francesca Woodman. * Ben Lerner: “I came here tonight to open you up / To interference heard as music”. * Ben Lerner on Knausgaard. * Karl Ove Knausgaard on spring. * Out to where storytelling does not reach. * Art does not know a beyond. * The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing Tumblr. * My interview with Nicholas Rombes. * Adam Thirlwell on literature in a distracted era. * Eimear McBride interviewed by Darran Anderson. * Darran Andeson on the Van Gogh/Artaud exhibition. * Why does so much classical music sound unfinished? * Books that

John Heil and Daniel Stoljar, both recently reviewed on 3:AM, will be taking part in a debate together in this year’s HowTheLightGetsIn philosophy and music festival. Together with figures from the worlds of science, politics, philosophy and culture they will be traveling to Hay-on-Wye to debate everything from the science of consciousness to nature of matter and discover which of today’s heresies will become the truths of tomorrow. HowTheLightGetsIn, the world’s largest philosophy festival, takes place over 10 days at the end of May, with a programme packed with over 500 thought-provoking debates, talks and courses aiming to bring big

The International Necronautical Society’s Statement on Digital Capitalism. * The miracle of analogy: “Photography is — as I hope to demonstrate — radically anti-Cartesian. It shows us that there really is a world, that it wants to be seen by us, and that it exceeds our capacity to know it”. * Teju Cole interviewed by Aleksandar Hemon. * Why Duchamp? * The ‘not’ of speculative realism. * Dark Deleuze. * Nick Land‘s lure of the void. * Michel Foucault: the lost interview. * Jonathan Gibbs on Christiana Spens‘s illustrations for 3:AM Press book covers. * Christiana Spens’s moving tribute to

Some of Richard Marshall‘s End Times interviews have now been collected in a book entitled Philosophy at 3:AM (Oxford University Press): The appeal of philosophy has always been its willingness to speak to those pressing questions that haunt us as we make our way through life. What is truth? Could we think without language? Is materialism everything? But in recent years, philosophy has been largely absent from mainstream cultural commentary. Many have come to believe that the field is excessively technical and inward-looking and that it has little to offer outsiders. The 25 interviews collected in this volume, all taken

Kunsthalle Düsseldorf welcomes INS General Secretary Tom McCarthy and INS Chief Philosopher Simon Critchley to deliver a statement. Rendezvous: 1900h, Friday 4 April 2014, Salon des Amateurs, Grabbeplatz 4, 40213 Düsseldorf [Pic: Tom McCarthy by Andrew Gallix.]