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This was our presentation to the Cultures of Energy seminar at Rice today. Joe Campana, me, Aynne Kokas, Derek Woods.  Joe and me: beauty and ugliness: oil pipes (beauty of landscape is about hiding them!) versus wind farms (that farmers don’t want messing up their horizon) relationship between beauty and energy me; different scales and spatiotemporal rhythms required: Marina Zurkow--just taking that simple hydrocarbon ad and multiplying it nature coloring books: use of kitsch concept of MESOCOSM And an engagement with things that are considered somewhat marginal to or provocatively on the side of the aesthetic: food; the Klingberg mandala -- disturbing but not in the usual ways; products, shopping looking at issues of consumption and taste consumerism possibility space Joe: it’s a nice segue from the previous Catastrophe cluster presentation. The group formed as a way of thinking about how artists think about energy in a variety of media. Before I even knew I had an interest in t...

...from the press images for the Gallery .

Here at Rice.

Yes. How? Via the maternal superego:

UVA English Graduate Conference 2013 “Subject to Change: Nature, Text, and the Limits of the Human” Friday - Sunday . March 22-24 Monroe Hall Official Schedule **All room numbers refer to rooms in Monroe Hall, unless specifically noted otherwise Friday, March 22 2:00 pm . Registration opens (Monroe Hall lobby) 3:00-4:15 . Panels (1)             1a. Room 116: “Stars, Sex, and Signs: Articulating Renaissance Materialism(s)” William Rhodes, “Speculative Allegories” Liz Steinway, “Complicating Chastity: Elizabeth I and Ermines in Book III of The Faerie Queene ” Aaron Greenberg, “Life and Death Matters in the Renaissance” 1b. Room 134: “Poems and Things” Mande Zecca, “The Combined Refraction of Everything Else: John Ashbery’s Objects” Joe Albernaz, “William Blake’s Apocalyptic Ontology: An Encounter Between Blake and Object-Oriented Philosophy” Kevin Holden , “Allotropic Series (Poetics, Ontology, Emergence)” Tyler Babbie ...

It's a really good one I think and it is being approved this week:  Inexpressible: The Agrarian Roots of Romantic Rhetoric Congratulations Eric! 

The racist rabid rump of Reagan is on the way out, right on time.