Our podcast of LA-Lit 15a: Chris Kraus is now online. The interview was originally recorded on Friday, November 3rd at 7pm.

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Chris Kraus is the Los Angeles based author of I Love Dick (1998), Aliens & Anorexia (2000), Video Green: Los Angeles Art and the Triumph of Nothingness (2004) and Torpor (2006), all of which are available from Semiotexte. In 2003 Kraus was cited by the Village Voice Literary Supplement as one of the most important new writers to emerge in the past decade. In 1990, she founded the Native Agents new fiction series for Semiotexte, the visionary independent press founded by Sylvere Lotringer at Columbia University in 1972. Kraus writes about art and culture for many international publications including Index, Artext and Art in America. She was nominated for the 2005 Frank Mather Prize in Art Criticism and is presently the Writer in Residence at Colombia College of Art in Chicago.

LA-Lit celebrated its 1 Year Anniversary at Betalevel with a discussion of the experimental literary scene in Los Angeles on Sunday October 15 at 3pm.

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Previous guests on the show–Will Alexander, Guy Bennett, Anthony McCann, Amar Ravva, Ara Shirinyan, and Diane Ward–participated in a panel discussion from 3pm-5pm, then gave readings beginning at 7pm.

Topics of discussion included:
LA-Lit – is there one?
Is an identifiable literary community important to Los Angeles?
Have old structures of organization become useless to us?
- rhizomatic communities vs bureaucratic organiztion
What are specific methods that could be used to create/grow literary community?
What role can experimental poetics play in the creation of community?
Eccentric or outside, off-center… is there no center?
How to define our own ‘decentered’ spontaneous connectivity?

For additional consideration, a cloud…

political activism • ecopoetics • urban poetics • art in the context of world-wide brutality • art and activism • the art of protest • collaborative art/poetics • poetic people power • social experiments • the poetics of daily life in an urban setting • momentary poetics • poetic manifestos • postwar culture • the public avant-garde • feminisms • post-avant • activist communities • poetic terrorism • anti-poetics • poetic recreation • textual/poetic extremeties • small poetic world/brutal surrounding world • poetic/activist pleasure • urban nature • a world of cities • cultural activism • street poetics • uncontrollable space of the urban event • community fences/border walls