Joshua Clover

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Joshua Clover is a professor at the University of California, Davis, where he writes about poetry and economic crisis.

No Ideas but in Crowds: Baudelaire’s Paris Spleen No Ideas but in Crowds: Baudelaire’s Paris Spleen

In Paris Spleen, Charles Baudelaire crystallized a new feeling: the private life of the public turn.

May 20, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover

Partisans of Oblivion: A Situationist Novel Partisans of Oblivion: A Situationist Novel

Michèle Bernstein's Situationist novel explores a Paris hovering between Old World and New Wave.

Dec 17, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover

This Town Is Going Out of Business This Town Is Going Out of Business

[This town is going out of business that I call my brain] [the public space of my head got suburbed] [the heaven-heaped core of capital-] [ized stars is empty now as sleep is full] [of new words for new feelings like infrastructure-] [nostalgia or love-outside-the- citadel] [the past tense is tragedy while the present tense is comedy] [as all the empires and epochs have ended] [but for this one and then only out here] [in the late districts of the imagination] [in the old light of our pretty periphery]

Oct 15, 2008 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover

A Kind of Waiting Always A Kind of Waiting Always

A new book of Rod Smith's poems maps the geometry of social life in thoughts and phrases.

Dec 6, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Clover

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