tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-343973588549879357.post4194396742985058722..comments2023-08-10T18:01:53.372-07:00Comments on MILITANT POETICS: Jennifer Cooke: On the Militant Poetics ConferenceSean Bonneyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01249091680381502755noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-343973588549879357.post-8387098117834150372013-06-20T08:45:36.442-07:002013-06-20T08:45:36.442-07:00Thanks for this Jen. I too especially enjoyed Fran...Thanks for this Jen. I too especially enjoyed Fran's reaction to the paper and the wider conversation it provoked. <br /><br />Without meaning to be pedantic, can I ask (you or anyone else who may like to respond) what is meant by "revolution" in your third paragraph? Do you mean that revolution is like a subjective agent in command of its use of language? Do you further mean to propose it as a principle of revolutionary conduct, or a normative demand on individual conscience, that we should only participate in revolutions whose use of language we find acceptable? Or is your point that we ourselves are the revolution and therefore we must stop using reactionary language? <br /><br />I thoroughly agree not just that sexual language, but that sexuality itself in poetry should be infinitely more carefully interrogated than ever before. I share the hope that Fran voiced for a poetry of "revolutionary tenderness". <br /><br />But also I can't help but think of Marx's ironical commentary on the "ugly" revolution versus the "beautiful" revolution in the Eighteenth Brumaire. I wonder if there might be any lessons for us in that text. <br />Keston Sutherlandnoreply@blogger.com