“I Do This, You Do That:” mass consumption and subversive protopolitics in Frank O’Hara’s poetry

Mon mémoire propose d’analyser la poésie de Frank O’Hara comme étant une réponse subversive, quoi que « protopolitique, » à la montée de la surconsommation aux États-Unis, plus précisément à New York, dans les années cinquante et le début des années soixante. C’est en passant par la philosophie et la sociologie du quotidien d’Henri Lefebvre et l’art de la flânerie exemplifié par Charles Baudelaire et Walter Benjamin que je développerai une compréhension de la poésie du quotidien de l’auteur et des effets de l’inclusion d’objets anodins dans ses poèmes. Dans un deuxième temps, j’utiliserai des peintres de l’expressionisme abstrait et du mouvement «pop art» pour tisser un lien entre leur désir mutuel d’empêcher la surconsommation de s’établir comme stratégie économique de base. En dernier lieu, la poésie et les essais littéraires de plusieurs auteurs modernes américains tels Charles Olson et William Carlos Williams et des Futuriste et Formaliste Russes Vladimir Mayakovsky et Viktor Shklovsky m’aideront à approfondir la poétique subversive d’O’Hara et son effet sur la surconsommation et le sentiment d’éloignement qu’il en ressent. Pour conclure, j’élargirai le spectre de ma recherche pour montrer que mon analyse de l’œuvre d’O’Hara me servira d’assise pour un projet futur qui tentera de comprendre l’effet de la poésie d’autres auteur(e)s américain(e)s reconnu(e)s et de leur propre œuvre beaucoup plus engagée politiquement que celle du New Yorkais.In my thesis, I analyze Frank O’Hara’s poetry as a subversive, albeit protopolitical, response to the rise of mass consumption in the United States, more specifically in New York City, from the 1950s until his premature death in 1966. Through Henri Lefebvre’s sociologic and philosophic theories on the everyday and Charles Baudelaire’s and Walter Benjamin’s representations of the flâneur, I develop an understanding of O’Hara’s mundane poetics and of the numerous echoes of banal objects in his oeuvre. Secondly, I contend that pop artists Claes Oldenburg and Andy Warhol and the abstract expressionist movement share a mutual desire to critique mass consumption as the main economic doctrine of the epoch. Furthermore, O’Hara’s passion for the essays and poetics of American modernists such as Charles Olson and William Carlos Williams and Russian Futurist and Formalist Vladimir Mayakovsky and Viktor Shklovsky proves an essential component of O’Hara’s subversive poetics and in the “enstranging” effects it exemplifies with regard to mass consumption. To conclude, I argue that O’Hara’s work is but the foundation of my argument and points to a larger discussion on mass consumption and the post- war poetic response to it

Essais de B.C.G. diagnostic sur les Bovidés.

Pérès Gabriel, Peres Germain. Essais de B.C.G., diagnostic sur les Bovidés. In: Bulletin de l'Académie Vétérinaire de France tome 104 n°1, 1951. pp. 70-72

Molecular Simulations of Shock to Detonation Transition in Nitromethane

An extension of the model described in a previous work of Maillet, Soulard and Stoltz based on a Dissipative Particule Dynamics is presented and applied to liquid nitromethane. Large scale non-equilibrium simulations of reacting nitromethane under sustained shock conditions allow a better understanding of the shock-to-detonation transition in homogeneous explosives. Moreover, the propagation of the reactive wave appears discontinuous since ignition points in the shocked material can be activated by the compressive waves emitted from the onset of chemical reactions

Fe-Mg M1 site distribution in some clinopyroxenes from Santa Olalla (Huelva, Spain)

The crystal structures of two clinopyroxenes related to the skarns from Santa Olalla (Huelva. Spain) have been refined. From these refinements it is shown that pyroxene SO-1 of metamorphic origin is almost pure diopside. whereas for pyroxene SO-2 of metasomatic origin the following formula CaMg 0.64 Fe 0,34 Si2 O6. was found. These clinopyroxenes show cation ordering

Fe-dolomite(teruelite) from the Keuper of the southern sector of the Iberian Mountain Range, Spain

En la parte meridional del Keuper de la Cordillera Ibérica una variedad de dolomita ferrosa es de interés como curiosidad mineralogica (teruelita). Los analisis quimicos y el estudio cristalografico por medio de las tecnicas de difraccion de rayos X de monocristales confirman que se trata de una variedad de la dolomita y no de la ankerita. Solo ligeras diferencias morfologicas han sido apreciadas entre dolomita y temelita. Asi, la teruelita cristaliza en la forma(4041) mientras que la dolomita cristaliza preferentemente en la forma (l0l 1)

Dibromobis(4-methoxyphenyl)tellurium(IV)

The structur analysis shows that the title compound, [TeBr2(C7H7O)2], is isostructural with the corresponding dichloro compound. There are two molecules in the asymmetric unit in which the Te atom has pseudotrigonal bipyramidal coordination geometry. The two independent molecules, along with their centrosymmetric equivalents, form isolated tetramers by means of Te…Br contacts ranging from 3.535 (1) to 3.741(1) A

Two Polymorphs of Bis(4-methoxyphenyl)tellurium(IV) Diiodide

The title compound, (C7H7O)2Tel2 (orC14H14I2O2Te), crystallizes in space group P1, either with Z = 8, (Ia), or Z = 4, (Ib). The six independent molecules [four in (Ia) and tow in (Ib)] have very similar structures. The geometry at the Te atoms is pseudo-trigonal bipyramidal, with the I atoms in the axial positions and the anisyl groups and the lone pair of electrons in the equatiorial plane. The Te-C and Te-I distances are in the ranges 2.107(4)-2.128(6) and 2.8549 (10)-3.0071(10) A, respectively. In both polymorphs, the molecules are associated via Te...I secondary bonds [3.6922(6)-3.9017(7)A] to form centrosymmetric tetramers in which the Te4I8 cores display step-like geometries. Including the secondary interactions, the coordination about each Te atom is distorted octahedral