Rethinking rethinking

You have to be signed in to Facebook to read the whole thing, but here is a taste of Joshua Clover taking issue with a few issues at the Rethinking Poetics Conference at Columbia University :

I was invited here literally to complain — “what do you want to complain about in poetry” — and what I want to complain about, I mean rethink, is the hybrid. Specifically the “American Hybrid,” as it is currently being called. I want to unfold this problem dialectically, after a fashion. Or, I want to show how for me the problem — what needs to be rethought — itself unfolds dialectically. So I will begins where all dialectical thought begins — with Silliman’s Blog . . .