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TextFrame: Cosmopolitanism and Non-Exclusively Anglophone Poetries
This project proposes a replacement for some institutional-archival mechanisms of non-exclusively anglophone poetry as it is produced under racial capitalism and archived via its universities and grant-bearing nonprofits. The project argues specifically for the self-archiving of non-exclusively anglophone poetry, and by extension of poetry, in a manner that builds away from US-dominated, nationally-organized institutions. It argues that cosmopolitanist norm translation, as advocated by various critics, can function as part of a critique of institutional value creation used in maintaining inequalities through poetry. The US-based Poetry Foundation is currently the major online archive of contemporary anglophone poetry; the project comprises a series of related essays that culminate in a rough outline for a collaboratively designed, coded, and maintained application to replace the Foundationâs website. Whatever benefit might result, replacing archival mechanisms of racial capitalism while remaining within its systemic modes of value creation is at best a form of substitution: it is not an actual change in relations and not a transition to anything. Doing so may, however, allow greater clarity in understanding how poetry is situated within US-based institutions, beyond the images and values that poets and critics in the US often help to maintain.
Chapter one, ââIndiannessâ and Omission: 60 Indian Poets,â reads the anthology 60 Indian Poets, published in 2008 in India and the UK (with US distribution), as argument about the contours of Indian Poetry in English and about the contours of Indiaâs relations in the world. It relates Rashmi Sadanaâs work on the meanings of English in India to decisions made within the anthology, and look further at Pollockâs conception of cosmopolitanism and vernacularity, particular as it applies to the Indian North-East and the poetry of Kynpham Sing Nongkynrih. The second chapter, âArchival Power: Individualization, the Racial State, and Institutional Poetryâ engages Roderick Fergusonâs concept of archival power to explain the 2015 âcrisisâ within contemporary US poetry driven by practitioners of conceptual poetry, and an attempted archival act with regard to the Black Lives Matter movement. The chapter ends with a fragment of Alexis Pauline Gumbsâs recent account of US university life as experienced by Black artists and scholars. That chapter is followed by âThe Poetry Foundation as Site of Archival Power,â which extends Jodi Melamedâs critique of US university value-creation mechanisms to Poetry magazine and the Poetry Foundationâs website. It argues that the Poetry Foundation functions as a de facto arm of the US university system as outlined in the previous chapter, and aids in capitalist value-creation. âTextFrame: An Open Archive for Poetry,â the fourth chapter, is an attempt to begin thinking a replacement for current mechanisms of archiving non-exclusively anglophone poetry. The fifth chapter, âNarayananâs Language Events as Free-Tier Application,â documents work imagined for TextFrame, as an application, that has actually already been built: the poet and scholar Vivek Narayanan adapted Robert Desnosâs Language Events for the classroom using a variety of discrete free services, and the present author collaborated with Narayanan in creating a stand-alone Web application.
Chapters six, seven, and eight function as case studies to be used in creating templates for providing context to specific poems within any built application. Both of the specific moments covered transmogrify the âanti-psychological.â The sixth chapter, âAn Unendurable Age: Ashbery, OâHara, and 1950s Precursors of âSelfâ Psychologyâ thus argues that an anti-psychological ethos is developed in Ashbery and OâHaraâs poems of that moment. It shows that Frank OâHaraâs âPersonism: A Manifestoâ (1959) is almost certainly a parody of Gordon Allportâs theory of Personalism, of related strands of 1950s American psychology, and of the poetry that developed alongside them in the 1930s. It follows other critics in looking at midcentury conceptions of schizophrenia as a specifically homosexual disease, and argues for the importance of contemporarily published examples of schizophrenic discourse, particularly those of Harry Stack Sullivan. It argues that Ashberyâs poem âA Boyâ can be read as directly engaging those ideas, and opposing them. The shorter discussions follow consider the affinities that Some Trees has with anti- or a-psychological theories of mind that were being developed at Harvard and MIT at the time that Ashbery and OâHara were in Cambridge, including generative grammar and critiques of philosophical analyticity. The eighth chapter, âBefore Conceptualism: Disgust and Over-determination in White-dominated Experimental Poetry in New York, 1999-2003,â highlights Dan Farrell and Lytle Shawâs very different uses of lyricâs peculiar staging of voice to foreground the multi-furcation of white identities and voice in response to state pressures.
The last two chapters take up two corollaries, or theoretical concerns that fell out trying to think a cosmopolitanist application. The first, âWhy Not Reddit?â examines existing commercial cosmopolitanist solutions for some of the functionality proposed for the application, and reasons for rejecting them. In doing so, it discusses Thomas Farrellâs construct of ârhetorical cultureâ in detail, and traces a theory of communication and authorship within a community, particularly with regard to thinking history. The last chapter (and second corollary) is titled âEthos in Pedagogy as a Limit on Norm Translation.â It establishes the Aristotelian concept of ethos as a pedagogical limit for norm translation. The studyâs governing interest is not the conflicts or differences between practitioners or tendencies that are detailed here, but their relative incomprehensibility of those differences outside of their formative contexts
Massive gravity from descent equations
Both massless and massive gravity are derived from descent equations
(Wess-Zumino consistency conditions). The massive theory is a continuous
deformation of the massless one.Comment: 8 pages, no figur
The Interaction of Quantum Gravity with Matter
The interaction of (linearized) gravitation with matter is studied in the
causal approach up to the second order of perturbation theory. We consider the
generic case and prove that gravitation is universal in the sense that the
existence of the interaction with gravitation does not put new constraints on
the Lagrangian for lower spin fields. We use the formalism of quantum off-shell
fields which makes our computation more straightforward and simpler.Comment: 25 page
Relating on-shell and off-shell formalism in perturbative quantum field theory
In the on-shell formalism (mostly used in perturbative quantum field theory)
the entries of the time ordered product T are on-shell fields (i.e. the basic
fields satisfy the free field equations). With that, (multi)linearity of T is
incompatible with the Action Ward identity. This can be circumvented by using
the off-shell formalism in which the entries of T are off-shell fields. To
relate on- and off-shell formalism correctly, a map sigma from on-shell fields
to off-shell fields was introduced axiomatically by Duetsch and Fredenhagen. In
that paper it was shown that, in the case of one real scalar field in N=4
dimensional Minkowski space, these axioms have a unique solution. However, this
solution was given there only recursively. We solve this recurrence relation
and give a fully explicit expression for sigma in the cases of the scalar,
Dirac and gauge fields for arbitrary values of the dimension N.Comment: The case of gauge fields was added. 16 page
The Galaxy Cluster Luminosity-Temperature Relationship and Iron Abundances - A Measure of Formation History ?
Both the X-ray luminosity-temperature (L-T) relationship and the iron
abundance distribution of galaxy clusters show intrinsic dispersion. Using a
large set of galaxy clusters with measured iron abundances we find a
correlation between abundance and the relative deviation of a cluster from the
mean L-T relationship. We argue that these observations can be explained by
taking into account the range of cluster formation epochs expected within a
hierarchical universe. The known relationship of cooling flow mass deposition
rate to luminosity and temperature is also consistent with this explanation.
From the observed cluster population we estimate that the oldest clusters
formed at z>~2. We propose that the iron abundance of a galaxy cluster can
provide a parameterization of its age and dynamical history.Comment: 13 pages Latex, 2 figures, postscript. Accepted for publication in
ApJ Letter
Perturbative Gravity in the Causal Approach
Quantum theory of the gravitation in the causal approach is studied up to the
second order of perturbation theory. We prove gauge invariance and
renormalizability in the second order of perturbation theory for the pure
gravity system (massless and massive). Then we investigate the interaction of
massless gravity with matter (described by scalars and spinors) and massless
Yang-Mills fields. We obtain a difference with respect to the classical field
theory due to the fact that in quantum field theory one cannot enforce the
divergenceless property on the vector potential and this spoils the
divergenceless property of the usual energy-momentum tensor. To correct this
one needs a supplementary ghost term in the interaction Lagrangian.Comment: 50 pages, no figures, some changes in the last sectio
Does the Chapman--Enskog expansion for sheared granular gases converge?
The fundamental question addressed in this paper is whether the partial
Chapman--Enskog expansion of the shear stress converges or not for a gas of
inelastic hard spheres. By using a simple kinetic model it is shown that, in
contrast to the elastic case, the above series does converge, the radius of
convergence increasing with inelasticity. It is argued that this paradoxical
conclusion is not an artifact of the kinetic model and can be understood in
terms of the time evolution of the scaled shear rate in the uniform shear flow.Comment: 4 pages, 1 table, 2 figures; v2: minor changes,Fig. 2 redon
Analytical Results for Random Band Matrices with Preferential Basis
Using the supersymmetry method we analytically calculate the local density of
states, the localiztion length, the generalized inverse participation ratios,
and the distribution function of eigenvector components for the superposition
of a random band matrix with a strongly fluctuating diagonal matrix. In this
way we extend previously known results for ordinary band matrices to the class
of random band matrices with preferential basis. Our analytical results are in
good agreement with (but more general than) recent numerical findings by
Jacquod and Shepelyansky.Comment: 8 pages RevTex and 1 Figure, both uuencode
Causal perturbation theory in terms of retarded products, and a proof of the Action Ward Identity
In the framework of perturbative algebraic quantum field theory a local
construction of interacting fields in terms of retarded products is performed,
based on earlier work of Steinmann. In our formalism the entries of the
retarded products are local functionals of the off shell classical fields, and
we prove that the interacting fields depend only on the action and not on terms
in the Lagrangian which are total derivatives, thus providing a proof of
Stora's 'Action Ward Identity'. The theory depends on free parameters which
flow under the renormalization group. This flow can be derived in our local
framework independently of the infrared behavior, as was first established by
Hollands and Wald. We explicitly compute non-trivial examples for the
renormalization of the interaction and the field.Comment: 76 pages, to appear in Rev. Math. Phy
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