Missives from Triple Canopy contributors and confreres around and about the Internet:
Contributor Joshua Cohen responds to accusations of anti-Semitism in Harper's: "Hollywood movies, especially when they’re directed and produced by Jews, very rarely cast 'a Jewish type' (a type stereotyped by both Nazis and Jews), let alone someone who looks like me, in a starring role." Additional slights and self-depreciation can be found in the New York Observer's profile of the author, whose new novel, Witz, tells the story of the hunt for the last Jew (which commences on Christmas). Spilt oil and the Salton Sea: Senior editor Caleb Waldorf's collaborative group Third Rail will be presenting at the conference Oil + Water: The Case of Santa Barbara and Southern California on April 9 at the University of Santa Barbara. Editor Alexander Provan's "The Golden Compass: Islam Versus Global Capitalism" appears in the new issue of Bidoun—a free gold dinar with every copy. On April 3 Provan will be talking about Triple Canopy and Internet as Material at the Tucson Museum of Contemporary Art as part of its inaugural exhibition, in which contributors Lucy Raven and Taylor Baldwin and editor at large Adam Helms have work.
In the rarefied hills above Los Angeles, contributor José León Cerrillo recently completed a LAND residency, installing himself in R.M. Schindler’s Fitzpatrick-Leland House and churning out posters riffing on the graphic programs of West Coast modernism. The second issue of Farimani, the journal edited by contributor Amir Mogharabi, is now available online. What would Jesus blog? Contributor Nathan Schneider has published a report on "The New Landscape of the Religion Blogosphere" with the Social Science Research Council; on a more scatological tip, read his interview with Judith Butler in Guernica, "A Carefully Crafted Fuck You." Finally, New Slaves, the latest missive from the band Zs, which drilled our eardrums at More Talks About Buildings last April, is out now on The Social Registry.