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PhillyTalks #16
Sianne Ngai, Abigail Child
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Listen to a 91 minute recording, or download the file
Event Date: Thursday, April 13, 2000
Location: Slought Foundation at University of Pennsylvania
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Sianne Ngai is a poet and critic, and the author of criteria (O Books), Discredit (Burning Deck), and My Novel (Leave Books). Her critical writings on contemporary poetry have appeared in Postmodern Culture, Open Letter, and The Poetry Project Newsletter (a review of Juliana Spahr's Response). Her essay "Raw Matter: A Poetics of Disgust" is also forthcoming in Tell It Slant: Avant-Garde Poetics of the 1990s, an anthology edited by Mark Wallace and Steven Marks. Recent poetic work can be found in Object, edited by Rob Fitterman, Xcp (Cross-Cultural Poetics), edited by Mark Nowak, and a collaboration with Brian Kim Stefans in Interlope, edited by Summi Kaipa. She lives in Brooklyn, NYC.
Abigail Child is the author of several poetry books, including A Motive for Mayhem (Potes & Poets, 1989), Mob (O Books, c. 1995), and Scatter Matrix (Roof, 1996), as well as essays on contemporary theory in its relation to poetry and film that have appeared in journals including Poetics Journal and Raddle Moon. She is also an award-winning film- and videomaker who has exhibited her work extensively including the Whitney Biennial, the New York Film Festival, and the London Film Festival. She lives in New York City.
Organized by
Louis Cabri
Media files on the Slought.org website are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License.
MLA Style:
Sianne Ngai, et al. "PhillyTalks #16." Slought Foundation Online Content. [13 April 2000;
Accessed 18 March 2010]. <http://slought.org/content/11079/>.
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