Affect, performativity, and actually existing poetry

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes See, of course, Butler's Gender Trouble: Feminism and The Subversion of Identity (New York: Routledge, 1990). Sedgwick's work on Tompkins is redacted in Shame and Its Sisters: A Sylvan Tompkins Reader (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1995), and her remark about the will to erasure lurking in the desire to know the ‘cause’ of homosexuality can be found in ‘How to Bring Your Kids Up Gay’, from Tendencies (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1993). Again, Sedgwick's work is crucial here. See the essays collected Novel Gazing: Queer Readings in Fiction, ed. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997). For good English-language work on the post-war milieu of French intellectual life, and the germinating conditions of post-structuralism. See Danielle Marx-Scouras, The Cultural Politics of Tel Quel: Literature and the Left in the Wake of Engagement (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 1996); Bruce Holsinger, The Premodern Condition: Medievalism and The Making of Theory (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005), and François Cusset, French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, & Co. Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2008). Paul de Man, Aesthetic Ideology, ed. Andrzej Warminski (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996), p. 79. Ibid. Ibid., pp. 89, 80. De Man, Aesthetic Ideology, p. 123. Ibid., p. 127. Ibid., p. 128. Ibid., p. 133. Jacques Derrida, ‘From Restricted to General Economy: A Hegelianism without Reserve’, In Writing and Difference, trans. Alan Bass (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980), p. 261. Ibid., p. 256. Ibid., pp. 252, 257. Ibid., p. 276. Ibid., pp. 259–260. Ibid., p. 260. See Simon Ford, The Situationist International: A User's Guide (London: Black Dog Publishing, 2005). Jean-Luc Nancy, ‘Literary Communism’, in The Inoperable Community, trans. Christopher Fynsk (Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 1991), p. 77. Judith Butler, Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative (New York and London: Routledge, 1997), p.150. Ibid., p. 156. Butler, ‘Doing Justice to Someone: Sex Reassignment and Allegories of Transsexuality’, in Undoing Gender (New York and London: Routledge, 2004). Leo Bersani, Homos (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995), p.112. See, for instance, the astonishing passage on the shapes of the bodies of rhinoceri in Adorno, Negative Dialectics (New York: Continuum Press, 1973), p. 180. Lewis Ellingham and Kevin Killian, Poet Be Like God: Jack Spicer and the San Francisco Renaissance (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1998), p. 240. Ibid., pp. 99-100, 255, 306. Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian ed., My Vocabulary Did This To Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer, (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2008), p. 379. Ibid., p. 113. Jim Herndon, Manroot 10 (San Francisco, 1974), p. 57. Bruce Boone, ‘For Jack Spicer: And a Truth Element’, Social Text 7 (Spring-Summer 1983), p. 120. Gizzi and Killian, My Vocabulary Did This To Me, p. 221. Ellingham and Killian, Poet Be Like God, pp. 302-303. Gizzi and Killian, My Vocabulary Did This To Me, p. 243. Brief accounts of Spicer's work with Reed and with Kantorowicz can be found in Ellingham and Killian, Poet Be Like God, pp. 19-21 and 122. Gizzi and Killian, My Vocabulary Did This To Me, p. 233. Ibid., p. 221

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