Brian Kim Stefans

Brian Kim Stefans is a poet and professor of English (contemporary poetry and new media) at UCLA. His most recent book of poems is Viva Miscegenation (MakeNow Press, 2013). Prior books include What is Said to the Poet Concerning Flowers (Factory School, 2006) and Fashionable Noise: On Digital Poetics (Atelos, 2003). His website, which houses his many works of digital text art, is arras.net.

Girls of Spectacular Culture

"We’ve not only become absolute commodities but commodities whose every meaningless gesture is also a commodity as they are captured for the screen."...

BRIAN KIM STEFANS

PHILOSOPHY & CRITICAL THEORY

Book of Numbers: Meillassoux on Mallarmé

Mallarmé’s Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard (A throw of the dice will never abolish chance) is the subject of an exhilarating new book by French Speculative Realist philosopher Quentin Meillassoux....

BRIAN KIM STEFANS

Object Man: On Llyn Foulkes at the Hammer

On view at the Hammer Museum through May 19, 2013. IT’S A STRANGE BIT of irony that two of Llyn Foulkes’s major deities — they each appear in important portraits at the artist’s current retrospective at the Hammer Museum — ...

BRIAN KIM STEFANS