Dear All,
In light of the Coronavirus crisis, I’m getting in touch about plans for Cut-Ups@60 this September.
The situation is so uncertain as well as so serious that planning 6 months ahead is almost impossible. Hopefully, the situation will have improved in time and the conferences can go ahead. We will review the situation in June and see. One option is to reschedule in 2021.
In any event, please be assured that if we did have to cancel, the EBSN would refund registration fees.
We would also try to think of creative alternative ways to celebrate the occasion, and in the meantime to support and help sustain the EBSN I’d encourage members to order our Anniversary T-Shirt (https://ebsn.eu/2020-special-conference/special-anniversary-t-shirt/).
Hoping you and your loved ones stay well,
With all best wishes,
Oliver and the EBSN Board
EBSN President Oliver Harris – News Update about CUT-UPS@60
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Claude Pélieu Conference – CFP Deadline Extended 7th March
The organizers (Frank Rynne, Peggy Pacini and James Horton) have extended the deadline for paper proposals for their conference: “Courts-circuits et visions disjonctées : œuvre et réseaux de Claude Pélieu/Short-circuits and Fused Visions: The Works and Networks of Claude Pélieu” which will be held at University of Chicago Center Paris, June 11-12, 2020. Confirmed keynotes include Benoit Delaune, Jacques Donguy, Pierre Joris.
Pélieu was a cut-up pioneer, and this conference has many intersection points with our EBSN CUT-UPS@60 Special Conferences. Download the CFP below.
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CFP: Humanities Special Issue, Green Readings on the Beats
Submissions are now open for a special issue: “Keep on Rolling Under the Stars: Green Readings on the Beat Generation”
Please consider submitting a paper on green aspects of the Beat Generation in a broad sense.
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities/special_issues/green_readings
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New Publications: Ira Cohen, Into the Mylar Chamber, edited by Allan Graubard, (Fulgur Press, 2019)
This large-format, exquisitely illustrated hardback is a stunning tribute to the extraordinary photographic experiments of poet Ira Cohen, […]
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“The Beats: Authorships, Legacies” by A. Robert Lee – New Review Article by Simon Warner
The formidable A. Robert Lee, simply Bob to his many friends and connections in the global academic community, has been on the Beat bus longer than most. He studied under the trailblazing Eric Mottram, one of the early British scholars to acknowledge the artistic and cultural worth of Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs, and was there at a shining moment in the movement’s rich and entangled mythology: the International Poetry Incarnation at the Albert Hall In London in June 1965.[…]
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Brion Gysin – Let the Mice in
Ralf Friel’s Moloko Plus press has published a facsimile of the original 1973 edition of Brion Gysin’s Let the Mice in and extended it with a foreword by EBSN member Douglas Field and extra photos of Gysin. First published by Dick Higgins’s Something Else Press in 1973, contributor Jan Herman writes that the book brings together texts and photographs from the 1960s to document the use of cut-ups as a writing technique. Let the Mice in contains essays, cut-ups, photos, poems and works by Gysin and others that not only document cut-up literary history but shine light on the radical, pseudo-scientific and mystical influences that are the ground of Gysin’s art.
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Bomb Culture – Jeff Nuttall
Jeff Nuttall’s Bomb Culture (1968), like his magazine project My Own Mag (to which William Burroughs, in cut-up mode, was a key contributor) achieved cult status as a vital, radical exploration of 1960s counterculture. Nuttall’s reflective post-60s manifesto explores the radicalism of the 60s art, music, and protest movements.
Nuttall felt that atomic apocalypse was ubiquitous within high and low cultures, invading all cultural output, much as the mechanized death of The Great War stimulated Dadaism.
Along with the original text, newly edited by EBSN member Douglas Field and Jay Jeff Jones, is a new foreword by Iain Sinclair, who was close to Nuttall during the period described in Bomb Culture. This new edition also includes an afterword by writer Maria Fusco and introduction by the editors which includes images of Nuttall’s artwork and other archive materials.
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Tagged 1960s, cut-up, Iain Sinclair, Jeff Nuttall, William Burroughs
Wow! Ted Joans Lives! – Updated and on Vimeo Now
EBSN member Kurt Hemmer and Tom Knoff’s brilliant visual and aural collage about the legendary, tri-continental poet Ted Joans has been updated for its 10th anniversary and uploaded to Vimeo for your viewing pleasure:
More info & Ted Joans site: https://www.tedjoans.com/film/wow-ted-joans-lives/
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Three New Books From A. Robert Lee
The Routledge Handbook of International Beat Literature, The Beats: Authorships, Legacies and Writer Directory: A Book of Encounters . More details over at New Publications.
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New Edition of Burroughs’ Blade Runner: A Movie
Tangerine Press have just published the 40th anniversary edition of William S. Burroughs’ Blade Runner: A Movie. See more https://ebsn.eu/news/new-publications/
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