“What may the dictionary insist?”: Archiving _Pillage Laud_
“Clear speech be damned, it’s part of the logos of The Same that shuts us out, us women” – Erin Mouré Continuing my work in the feminist avant-garde, and in my last section on feminist poetics, I would...
View Article“Those texts stain you”: Affectively Reading Pillage Laud
Unsurprisingly, many people who discuss Erin Mouré, and the few who discuss this work in particular, draw attention to the role of the reader. In Rachel Blau DuPlessis’s article, she argues that the...
View Article“My line (article) has sighed”: Authorial Subjectivity and Technology
But, as postanarchism repeatedly insists throughout this project, a discussion of readership and the reading process is incomplete without being accompanied by a study of authorship and the process of...
View Article“To march is writing”: Anarchism and Resistance in _Pillage Laud_
In light of these discussions of readership, authorship, and anti-archive, I should at this juncture spend some time discussing the role of politics proper, and for the sake of this project, of...
View ArticleEm(body)ment and Queer Sex
As with many feminist embodiment projects, the text is clearly aligned in Pillage Laud with the (eroticized, female) body. The examples are plentiful, and I open this plateau with a few that draw this...
View ArticleOn Pillage Laud as :(){ :|:&; };:
In the first essay proper included in My Beloved Wager, “The Anti-Anæsthetic,” Erin Moure navigates the impossible and contradictory spaces of the writing self in poetry. In my final plateau on her...
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