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ONE STEP AHEAD Peter Neilson 2006

12:04am Sun. January 6th

And having read Adorno's position that art's impulse to objectivate the fleeting, not the permanent, may well run through the whole of its history;

And bowing low before Benjamin's final reading of Paul Klee's painting - Angelus Novus - as the 'angel of history' blown backwards into the future by a storm from Paradise while the chain of events we call 'progress' is seen by our angel as one single catastrophe which piles up wreckage and hurls it at the angel's feet; ...

ESSAY BY REX BUTLER, SENIOR LECTURER, DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, MEDIA STUDIES AND ART HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND

4:37pm Sat. January 5th

The following is an essay which appeared in a folio of Peter Neilson's artwork published for the 2007 Sydney exhibition of Neilson's work at Australian Galleries,15 Roylston Street, PADDINGTON,NSW. ...

ONWARDS TO OUR MEMORIES

3:04pm Sat. June 2nd

I was much intrigued by a passage in Robert Kaufmann's essay on(in part) modern lyric poetry: 'Poetry's Ethics? Theodor W. Adorno and Robert Duncan on Aesthetic Illuson and Sociopolitical Delusion' in New German Critique, Number 97, 2006(p 90)

Though many reasons have been advanced in support of lyric's fundamentally nonnarritive character, two have tended to predominate. ...