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Digital Poetics #28 Nothing Preacher by Tim Atkins
From a series of film-poems on exile, resistance & creation. Filmed in Denver in Nov 2019 during an artist's residency at BMoCA.
Digital Poetics #27 Lymbs and Delirium: Chapter 2 by Zachary Knowland-Barker
Zach's next chapter of his long poem Lymbs and Delirium is an ambient exploration of ritual & bodies; broken bodies, transmuting bodies, bodies in trance, dance and ecstasy.
Digital Poetics #26 Aesthetics and Time Constraints: Marie Buck
Marie Buck's essay is a reply, critique and contextualisation of Joe Luna's 'Writing for Freedom', published last week on the Hythe.
Digital Poetics #25 Writing for Freedom: Joe Luna
Joe Luna considers the claims made for and on behalf of poetry by the radical Bay Area press, Commune Editions.
Marx After Growth #4 The Class Relation, Sean O'Brien
Final lecture talking about the class relation: what it is, how its reproduced, and how the dynamics of its reproduction have important implications for how we conceive of the production of gender, the ascription of race, and the changing horizons of cycles of struggle.
Digital Poetics #24 side with the immanent vex: prologue by James Goodwin
After the taser shooting of Desmond Ziggy Mombeyarara, 'side with the immanent vex' is a dysorderly attempt to situate the intense register of his resistant, resounding protest in the musicality of a vexed syntax and frayed grammar.
Digital Poetics #23 x F(r)ictions: Water Series: 2 by Morisha Moodley
A poetic film by Morisha Moodley on water and motion, drawing on spirituality and embodiment. This film is part of an ongoing series.
Digital Poetics #21: BEAST: Venus As A Soft Boi Dub by Sascha Akhtar w/ Intro by Ghazal Mosadeq
Oral poetry creating ‘neu’ language through lived experience with ancient classical Sufi metaphysical tropes.
Digital Poetics #20 x F(r)ictions: A field of islands by Edmund Hardy
Inspired by atmospheric adventure games such as Myst, and a poem by Édouard Glissant of the same name, this is a short film which starts with the desire to undo pain and constriction by finding 'negative islands' from which the world might be unmade.
Digital Poetics #19 I AM A FREE I AM NOT MAN A NUMBER by Cole Denyer
Some high-pitched satirical mode material from Cole Denyer. Keeping it whetted, lying down in enemy language.
Digital Poetics #18 Force of Nature: Amy De'Ath
The spinning torus of capital makes us sick! But it’s not sublime, nor out of our hands. Here’s ‘Force of Nature’ by Amy De’Ath.
Digital Poetics #17 x F(r)ictions: Let's go to lunch, habibi by Sarah Gaafar
"Let's go to lunch, habibi" explores ideas of abandonment, anger and longing through disrupted and fragmented storytelling.
Digital Poetics #16 A Basket Woven of One’s Own Hair: Nisha Ramayya
This poem splays the hokey kokey across an echolalic ars poetica. Don your shell and dive into a network of spatial explorations!
Digital Poetics #14 leaf person: Callie Gardner
a poem about wanting to be outside when you have to be inside, the difference between reading and standing in a forest, and turning the page.
Digital Poetics #13 On Every Page May I Present A Lion or An Elephant: Mayakovsky tr. Rosy Carrick
Rosy Carrick's super-cute and never-before-translated 1926 children's poem by Vladimir Mayakovsky.
Digital Poetics #12 Accidental Pirate Day: Samuel Solomon
Speculative architecture of the English seaside town. Mascots appear at the nude beach. A mini-epic in orange.