Laura Mullen on The Black Swan

Laura Mullen wrote a piece about The Black Swan and i posted it on Montevidayo.

Claire Denis's gothic surfaces

I posted about the French film director Claire Denis on Montevidayo.

Erotic Car-Crashes: Ballard and Cronenberg

I wrote a post about car crashes and JG Ballard and David Cronenberg on Montevidayo.

Intense Allegories: The Black Swan and Ann Jäderlund

I wrote a post about the movie The Black Swan and Swedish poet Ann Jäderlund and "intense allegories" on Montevidayo.

The Black Swan and Art

I wrote a post about the movie The Black Swan over at Montevidayo.

Excerpt:

"But Nina succeeds in the end precisely not by being fucked. She’s a big success, literally transforming herself into a black swan on stage. The way to this success is not by sex, but through a couple of other means: Fantasizing about *homosexual sex* (with Lily) and, much more importantly, fantasizing about killing Lily (Art is Crime, as Joyelle likes to say). Art is fantasizing. She doesn’t actually have sex, but she imagines (homosexual) sex. She performs, but she performs so well she herself can’t tell the real from the fantasy. Art is quite convincing!"

Books of the year

I wrote a list of some of my favorite books I read over the past year on Montevidayo.

The MFA Student: another post about this abject figure

I've written a post about the figure of the MFA student and the model of insiders-vs-outsiders in contemporary American poetry. It's up on Montevidayo. Here.

Kyle Minor wrote a kind response on HTML Giant.

"Brad Pitt ejaculating and on fire..."

I wrote a post about the figure of Brad Pitt in Ronaldo Wilson's and Christian Peet's poems.

Henry Parland, Yasusada, Forché and "atrocity kitsch"

I wrote a piece about these matters on Montevidayo.

The Cure and Anachronism and Stunted Sexuality

I posted a piece about Goth, The Cure, gurlesque, Anachronism, Let the Right One In and some other issues on Montevidayo.

Interview with Johan Jönson

I have an interview with Swedish poet up on Montevidayo.com.

Here's an excerpt:

Q: In Collobert Orbital, what is the relationship between your book and Danielle Collobert’s work?
A: My intention was to expand on (parts of) her work; to re-vectorize it into a new technological and political (discursive) orbital.
Q: Why were you drawn to Collobert’s work?
A: Because of its stuttering, gasping struggle for survival.
Q: Her life?
A: Because she was very nomadic, but, in difference to the philosophy of pious hopes, it did not make her free in the least. On the contrary, it killed her. Or, more specificially: for me she was a clear and productive example of radical immanence.
Q: In Collobert Orbital as well as a lot of your other books, you refer to your work as a care-giver. I’ve read discussions about your relationship to traditional “working class literature.” What do you see as your relationship to this tradition?
A: I use its advances, write partially in critical dialogue with it. I share the class aspects, the feelings of inferiority and the consciousness of the importance of wage work for bodies, individuals, societies – yes, the whole damned planet. However, “my” aesthetic is very different from the classic Swedish working class literature. And we have different relationships toward modernity. Then: a linear, progressive, “from darkness we move toward the light.” Now: an imperialistic dynamic without outsides, without another horizon.