La Furia Umana
  • I’m not like everybody else
    The Kinks
  • E che, sono forse al mondo per realizzare delle idee?
    Max Stirner
  • (No ideas but in things)
    W.C. Williams

Ken Eisenstein

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Curiouser and curiouser: Into the rabbit hole(s) of Hollis Frampton scholarship

The following roundtable discussion took place online January 10th, 2025, with participants Zooming in from North America, Europe, and Australia. The roundtable included some, though by no means all, of the most active English-language scholars of Hollis Frampton’s writings, films, and other artistic work. The discussion revealed the central importance of methodology, interdisciplinarity, and historical […]

“Lacing a Terrain”: Hollis Frampton’s Knockout Layouts  

Figure 1. A still from Frampton’s Drafts & Fragments (1974) and Zorns Lemma (1970) astride an image from Duane Michals’s The Lost Shoe (1969). Strides might glide on strolls, but rambles are best with wobbling folds. Rock, bend, reach out for balance; attention below…collapses and curves forward’s flow. The art of Hollis Frampton pulls at […]