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.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
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."...
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....
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 ...
Let’s Get Weird: On Graham Harman’s H.P. Lovecraft
H.P. LOVECRAFT'S WORK has not received a great deal of attention from literary critics. Until relatively recently, the majority of &...
Hardcore Hits the Coffee Table
Triptych image: Megan Cotts, "ECU"SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HARDCORE would probably top most lists of popular music genres least likely to be ...
Gaming the System: On the Oulipo
OF COURSE, HE'S NOT a composer,” Arnold Schoenberg once said of John Cage, “but he's an inventor — of genius!” Likewise, the ...
Thoroughly Modern Elsa
Since her rediscovery by scholars over a decade ago, photographs of the Baroness have become, in their way, as iconic of the era of Dada as any....
