CUNY Academic Commons | Joshua Wilner | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/jdwilner/activity/ Activity feed for Joshua Wilner. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 42f6e11000a5d547c72b7faa3f8410a7 Joshua Wilner replied to the topic delightful conversations in the forum Poets Together! via email https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=107752 Tue, 09 Feb 2021 19:32:41 -0500 Here’s the link:
https://gc-cuny.zoom.us/j/5406553898?pwd=TTlZK3FLTUQ2MkxYUmRJS0dxTmdxdz09

a(https://gc-cuny.zoom.us/j/5406553898?pwd=TTlZK3FLTUQ2MkxYUmRJS0dxTmdxdz09)nd here’s the passcode:

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]]> 15ca9d09a343daede1d7502fdb1c02b5 Joshua Wilner replied to the topic delightful conversations in the forum Poets Together! via email https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=107749 Tue, 09 Feb 2021 19:27:05 -0500 Try this passcode:

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]]> 5ddceffc63ecb40c59bf8171773dfea4 Joshua Wilner replied to the topic ongoing "surrealisms" in the forum Poets Together! via email https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=106076 Tue, 26 Jan 2021 20:13:27 -0500 For those interested, here are links I’ve tracked down to some of the pieces Mary Ann listed in her surrprosepoemsortof.doc:

Oscar Wilde – The Artist
https://www.wilde-online.info/poems-in-prose.html

Fiona Macleod (William Sharp) – The White Merle
https://www.bartleby.com/360/7/121.html (The White Peacock)

Frans Erens – Golden Song
ht…[Read more]

]]> 8d13f620e7618af4dbeff6948c845b08 Joshua Wilner replied to the topic a ruykeyser poem... in the forum Poets Together! https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=104737 Tue, 15 Dec 2020 20:23:01 -0500 The Ruykeyser poem is extraordinary, Mary Ann. Thanks for sharing it – I hadn’t known it previously.

Not quite so resonant, but with lines I find myself recalling (“Great Nature has another thing to do/To you and me…/This shaking keeps me steady”) is Roethke’s “The Waking”:

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I…[Read more]

]]> 564104ee45c05d07b0603e12e72f35b4 Joshua Wilner replied to the topic Tuesday at 430-6 in the forum Poets Together! https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=98716 Mon, 28 Sep 2020 21:44:16 -0400 Click “Library”

Click “Add New Item” (at top)

Drop down “Choose a type” menu

Click “Upload a file”; choose your file and click “open” to attach it

Click “Upload” at the bottom of the page

done

]]> 746390e2d2e0871064a695a16d3fb98e Joshua Wilner replied to the topic First paragraph of Mal Vu Mal Dit Ill Seen Ill Said in the forum Poets Together! https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=98592 Sun, 27 Sep 2020 20:27:45 -0400 I am by no means a Beckett scholar, but from a little fleet googling I conclude that the collocation of the Nohow On titles with “Stirrings Still” on the cover of your edition is an editorial decision meant to foreground and bring together the late prose.

It also appears (from googling!) that Worstward Ho was written in English and declared by B…[Read more]

]]> 9a4a471435ca5409a58968e14408b4c7 Joshua Wilner replied to the topic First paragraph of Mal Vu Mal Dit Ill Seen Ill Said in the forum Poets Together! https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=98548 Sun, 27 Sep 2020 04:52:01 -0400 Beckett translated it himself. “Ill seen Ill” said is one of three novels making up the volume Nohow On, the other two being “Company” and “Worstward Ho,” which were not translated by Beckett himself. I don’t know what their titles in French were/are, nor whether Nohow On existed as a collection in French before being assembled in English.

]]> e2b1c73f6e7e98b5825d9fd23406655c Joshua Wilner replied to the topic First paragraph of Mal Vu Mal Dit Ill Seen Ill Said in the forum Poets Together! https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=98476 Sat, 26 Sep 2020 19:09:33 -0400 I just came across this quotation from Wittgenstein:

“…it’s damned hard to write things that make blank sheets better…”

A good fit for Beckett’s paragraph.

Does anybody know where it’s from?

]]> 82dc6150316abb29d7b93329594eaf24 Joshua Wilner started the topic First paragraph of Mal Vu Mal Dit Ill Seen Ill Said in the forum Poets Together! https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/poets-together/forum/topic/first-paragraph-of-mal-vu-mal-dit-ill-seen-ill-said/ Sat, 26 Sep 2020 05:05:32 -0400 For those interested, I’ve added a “facing page” version of Beckett’s first paragraph to our library. Thanks to Maureen for uploading the entirety of Ill Seen Ill Said.

]]> 9aa32c6244e61f8a128ff55ecefa9522 Joshua Wilner uploaded First Paragraph of Mal Vu Mal Dit Ill Seen Ill Said to Poets Together! https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/702899/ Sat, 26 Sep 2020 05:02:15 -0400 A facing page version.

]]> 5ecb1206e36bf4bdf4051172ccc4b1d0 Joshua Wilner replied to the topic Next meeting tomorrow in the forum Poets Together! via email https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=97045 Mon, 21 Sep 2020 22:22:36 -0400 Thanks for the update, Marilyn.

Josh

]]> 2ec0530018cf2aff5c7ae1846d138e95 Joshua Wilner uploaded Between Dorothy and William to Poets Together! https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/697485/ Mon, 14 Sep 2020 23:50:09 -0400 I meant to share this before we gathered today, but I’m not sure it circulated. For whom is Dorothy’s journal destined? Is William’s sonnet a translation of her prose? Or should we say the reverse?

]]> 073f70ee0947931cc4616d12ba41aafb Joshua Wilner uploaded "Metaphor as Mistake" by Walker Percy to Poets Together! https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/697471/ Mon, 14 Sep 2020 23:34:09 -0400 Dating to 1958 and recognizably belonging to a certain moment in the history of New Criticism, Percy’s essay (which first appeared in _The Sewanee Review_) is, I think, prescient and durable.

]]> d5ad738cceb47bc3da39df89989e35be Joshua Wilner created the doc Marx on history and translation (from _The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon_) in the group Poets Together! https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/697397/ Mon, 14 Sep 2020 23:01:26 -0400 6021b7ce86ee370b38e138b9b8dd4ce0 Joshua Wilner replied to the topic the zoom link! in the forum Poets Together! https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=95829 Mon, 14 Sep 2020 20:45:34 -0400 Thanks for the reply, Maureen. I guess I’ll hang on for a while yet!

]]> cdfc84d3007bdf43a8b7992e06e33ae5 Joshua Wilner replied to the topic the zoom link! in the forum Poets Together! https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=95825 Mon, 14 Sep 2020 20:40:03 -0400 Are we open for business? My zoom link is hanging. Josh

]]> 098c040d8614a4f25e7d46222ad7b6fc Joshua Wilner replied to the topic translation item in the forum Poets Together! https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=93170 Sat, 29 Aug 2020 04:20:18 -0400 As a commited practitioner of elegant variation myself, I was surprised by the LRB letter-writer’s statement that “it is a commonplace that good English doesn’t mind and often prefers repetition” and decided to do some research, beginning with the history of the phrase, which apparently goes back to Fowler’s The King’s English.

Among Fowler’s ex…[Read more]

]]> b5ae6c4196bec12aac2092e9b14d5cab Joshua Wilner joined the group Poets Together! https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/681744/ Thu, 06 Aug 2020 01:49:04 -0400 678866f87c8a840b166973cee2428a83 Joshua Wilner replied to the topic access for student with @login.cuny.edu domain? in the forum The Group for Group Admins https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=85802 Sun, 15 Mar 2020 19:43:00 -0400 Thanks, Matt. I think we’re good now. Josh

]]> a17a528ff6eb0ae36dcf04f18ac7cd5b Joshua Wilner started the topic access for student with @login.cuny.edu domain? in the forum The Group for Group Admins via email https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/groups/the-group-for-group-admins/forum/topic/access-for-student-with-login-cuny-edu-domain/ Sat, 14 Mar 2020 23:25:44 -0400 Hi – In the group I’ve just created for my GC seminar, there’s a student with a @stonybrook.edu email address.
I was able to enroll him in the group using a @logic.cuny.edu address he was provided to give him access to Blackboard, CUNYFirst, and Office 365, but he was unable to use this from his side to enroll in the Commons – he received a mes…[Read more]

]]> 048a267cbe2d5bee209564dedfeb7bf4 Joshua Wilner joined the group The Group for Group Admins https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/657005/ Sat, 14 Mar 2020 21:54:55 -0400 5f0b36c56aa8491b12dce8039706b18d Joshua Wilner commented on the post, Short commentary on Dickinson's "I asked no other thing", on the site Thinking in Pieces http://cenghblog.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/10/24/short-thoughts-on-dickinsons-i-asked-no-other-thing/#comment-413 Tue, 01 Nov 2016 14:40:44 -0400 I hadn’t thought of the role of “interest” in this poem, but – if I understand how you want to invoke it – you’re right: the “Mighty Merchant” is portrayed as asking (condescendingly, as you say), “Is there […]

]]> 80f0e8ad8595553da5694f98dbb8bd28 Joshua Wilner commented on the post, Wittgenstein, symbols and rules, on the site Thinking in Pieces http://cenghblog.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/10/17/wittgenstein-and-the/#comment-394 Tue, 18 Oct 2016 21:07:42 -0400 The comparison with Hume is very apt – as is your calling attention to the very different ways in which they instantiate “the conventions of men.”
Regarding the use of “symbols” in philosophy, and your passing […]

]]> 8c66df63ad19a2f1d9149cf879f8ff18 Joshua Wilner commented on the post, Much Madness is Divinest Sense?, on the site Thinking in Pieces Reading Responses, Fall 2016 http://tip2016.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/10/17/much-madness-is-divinest-sense/#comment-46 Tue, 18 Oct 2016 20:45:35 -0400 Early on you observe that Dickinson “coyly invite[s] the reader to use their own discerning eye to read the lines as they deem proper.” Thus for all its subversiveness, it is not entirely a surprised that this is […]

]]> dd95ab2cc911cc2f4538aa9f3cf837c7 Joshua Wilner commented on the post, Pascal, Weil, and Wittgenstein: On the Pain of Others, on the site Thinking in Pieces Reading Responses, Fall 2016 http://tip2016.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/10/18/pascal-weil-and-wittgenstein-on-the-pain-of-others/#comment-45 Tue, 18 Oct 2016 20:02:16 -0400 I have only read a little Weil and didn’t know (though I should have) that she, as you say, “studied Pascal extensively.” One question I would have regarding her distinction between “the collective” and “the […]

]]> 900699c056b520c836802a810558eb82 Joshua Wilner commented on the post, Body, Mind, and Wisdom, on the site Thinking in Pieces Reading Responses, Fall 2016 http://tip2016.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/09/25/body-mind-and-wisdom/#comment-22 Mon, 10 Oct 2016 23:52:40 -0400 The parallel you make is of course to the point – though one needs to consider that Pascal’s “hierarchy” of orders of knowledge is three-fold, whereas Dickinson’s poem on the face of it seems more binary – as you […]

]]> efd061d3a1ecc73152d16fc8239a3106 Joshua Wilner commented on the post, On The Philosophical Investigations, on the site Thinking in Pieces http://cenghblog.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/09/22/on-the-philosophical-investigations/#comment-341 Tue, 27 Sep 2016 21:29:04 -0400 In answer to your last question about presumption I would say: yes. Wittgenstein doesn’t make the move to faith and he by no means simply a skeptic (though Cavell emphasizes, I think, rightly, that the question of […]

]]> bea3de03601ef068c93d4bafc67ac37e Joshua Wilner commented on the post, Ciphers and Their Keys, on the site Thinking in Pieces Reading Responses, Fall 2016 http://tip2016.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/09/23/ciphers-and-their-keys/#comment-10 Tue, 27 Sep 2016 00:36:44 -0400 Indeed one can feel quite outside Pascal’s “frame of reference,” but I find myself thinking – as it seems to me you do as well – that how he thinks about reading the bible may have its corollaries in others […]

]]> 5ac88fa8b07c17913019b9d9fe3984d8 Joshua Wilner commented on the post, Reading in Pieces, on the site Thinking in Pieces Reading Responses, Fall 2016 http://tip2016.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/09/13/reading-in-pieces/#comment-9 Mon, 26 Sep 2016 23:08:59 -0400 Knowing the pieces are, as you say, curated indeed influences how one thinks about them and one a guiding consideration for me in thinking to put these three writers together in the first place. At the same time a […]

]]> 3d2c4d9b7f061e04876032452047e9e3 Joshua Wilner commented on the post, Reading in Pieces, on the site Thinking in Pieces Reading Responses, Fall 2016 http://tip2016.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/09/13/reading-in-pieces/#comment-3 Tue, 20 Sep 2016 15:44:23 -0400 As I mentioned in class, I was really intrigued by the comparison to Matisse’s cut-outs. I want to think more about what your observation that Matisse uses them to “bring the background into the foreground.” Leads […]

]]> dcbe70c3c7135eb6b8850712c961dc99 Joshua Wilner commented on the post, On Book Tenth of Wordsworth's Prelude, on the site Thinking in Pieces http://cenghblog.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/03/29/83/#comment-27 Tue, 05 Apr 2016 15:56:40 -0400 Lots to think about here for a “short response,” Catherine. Early on you emphasize how ” One of the things that I find fascinating about the chapter is the way in which we see Wordsworth’s body and mind getting e […]

]]> b9d9e31a855eb0daa881999f18deb974 Joshua Wilner commented on the post, On the Boy of Winander Episode in ‘The Prelude’, on the site Thinking in Pieces http://cenghblog.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2016/03/20/on-the-boy-of-winander-episode-in-the-prelude/#comment-17 Tue, 22 Mar 2016 21:28:51 -0400 “the boy’s anthropomorphism exists at a degree of remove from his initial act and may be a bit delusional.” To this I would only add that the anthropomorphization – and therefore the delusion – are as much the p […]

]]> 2229f491f9a15f591050f0fc2dfdd105 Joshua Wilner commented on the post, $5K Per Course Must Be Bottom-Line Contract Demand, on the site Contingent Representation at CUNY's Union http://contingentrep.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2014/05/17/5k-per-course-must-be-bottom-line-contract-demand/#comment-433 Sat, 24 May 2014 03:20:46 -0400 I have signed the petition as a full-time faculty member (City College and The Graduate Center) who wishes to express solidarity with my adjunct colleagues and to protest the exploitative terms of their […]

]]> 6309f9e7866c540fbe6a931cdfe9d1d3 Joshua Wilner commented on the post, Open Letter to CUNY Union Pres. Barbara Bowen, on the site Sean M. Kennedy http://seanmkennedy.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2014/05/13/open-letter-to-cuny-union-pres-barbara-bowen/#comment-597 Thu, 22 May 2014 13:57:32 -0400 I have signed the position as a full-time faculty member (City College and The Graduate Center) who wishes to express solidarity with my adjunct colleagues and to protest the exploitative terms of their […]

]]> 4225c705c96c8affbbe0f99ffcf266e0 Joshua Wilner became a registered member https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/60573/ Sun, 11 Dec 2011 15:25:51 -0500