Tag Archives: Francis Ponge

FIVE: THE WORLD IS NEW (pages 8-11)

Posted on April 6, 2023 by Mark Kerstetter

We are now going to read three more very weird pages. We will be ten percent into the book and at the risk of wearying the reader with my repetitions, I feel that I must mark my surprise at the … Continue reading →

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Signaling Through Flames

Posted on June 7, 2018 by Mark Kerstetter

I’ve been reading the new Atlas edition of the internal papers of the Secret Society of Acéphale with lectures to the College of Sociology. The lectures and the articles from the Acéphale journal have been published before. The internal papers … Continue reading →

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The Sad Cup of Coffee: a note on personification

Posted on August 31, 2016 by Mark Kerstetter

I’ve had cold coffee and hot coffee, good coffee and lousy coffee, but I’ve never had a sad cup of coffee. —Robert Rauschenberg the spirit of truth must guide us in some sort, even in our enjoyment of fallacy. —John … Continue reading →

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Out of the Shadows with Maldoror

Posted on July 29, 2016 by Mark Kerstetter

Parle, et, puisque, d’après tes vœux les plus chers, l’on ne souffrirait pas, dis en quoi consisterait alors la vertu, idéal que chacun s’efforce d’atteindre, si ta langue est faite comme celle des autres hommes. —Lautréamont, Les Chants de Maldoror … Continue reading →

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Francis Ponge in English Translation

Posted on February 22, 2014 by Mark Kerstetter

Readers of English new to Francis Ponge might want to start with Selected Poems , The Nature of Things, or Partisan of Things, all of which are in print and readily available (Partisan of Things is newest). I don’t own any of them* … Continue reading →

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