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Posted in Literature
October 20, 2020

Forms Of Enchantment – Literary Conversations, Part 4 (Jennifer Denrow and Mathias Svalina With Roger Green)

The following is republished from The New Polis, and is the last of a four-part series. The first installment can be found here, the second here, the third here. The video version can be found here. Jennifer Denrow is the author of California (Four Way Books, 2011). Her chapbooks include How We Know it…

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Posted in Literature
October 6, 2020

Forms Of Enchantment – Literary Conversations, Part 3 (Jennifer Denrow and Mathias Svalina With Roger Green)

The following is republished from The New Polis, and is the third of a four-part series. The first installment can be found here, the second here. The video version can be found here. Jennifer Denrow is the author of California (Four Way Books, 2011). Her chapbooks include How We Know it is That (Horse Less…

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Posted in Literature
September 22, 2020

Forms Of Enchantment – Literary Conversations, Part 2 (Jennifer Denrow and Mathias Svalina With Roger Green)

The following is republished from The New Polis, and is the second of a four-part series. The first installment can be found here. The video version can be found here. Jennifer Denrow is the author of California (Four Way Books, 2011). Her chapbooks include How We Know it is That (Horse Less Press, 2014) and From…

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September 7, 2020

Forms Of Enchantment – Literary Conversations, Part 1 (Jennifer Denrow and Mathias Svalina With Roger Green)

The following is republished from The New Polis, and is the first of a four-part series. The video version can be found here. Jennifer Denrow is the author of California (Four Way Books, 2011). Her chapbooks include How We Know it is That (Horse Less Press, 2014) and From California, On (Brave Men Press, 2012). Her writing…

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Posted in Literature
July 23, 2020

The Novel, Tragedy, And Sacrifice (Steven Dunn and Selah Saterstrom With Roger Green)

By Roger Green Steven Dunn and Selah Saterstrom, two novelists currently working in Denver, Colorado, share many aesthetic sensibilities. Here I as the interviewer particularly focuses on material approaches to language that we see in their work, arguing that what they bring to the novel is a notion of cultural…

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Posted in Literature
July 9, 2020

Blanchot And Disaster (Roger Green)

In this essay, I want to explore the distinction between the “state of exception” and the “disaster.” In doing so, I am also drawing on an interesting seminar that Joshua Ramey has been providing online for the general public called “Debt as Original Sin.” Following arguments in Devin Singh’s Divine Currency, Ramey…

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April 3, 2017

Perennialism and Primitivism In Psychedelic Religions, Part 3 (Roger Green)

The following is the last of a three-part series.  The first installment can be found here, the second here. Although Mercante tracks gender differences, when visitors are foreign, education level, and occasionally social class, he does not address ethnicity among members.  This makes his work difficult to comment on from the…

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Posted in Anthropology
March 25, 2017

Perennialism and Primitivism In Psychedelic Religions, Part 2 (Roger Green)

The following is the second of a three-part series.  The first installment can be found here. An economic approach that more astutely tracks what’s at stake in emergent ayahuasca religions might combine Luis León’s idea of ‘religious poetics’ with anthropologist, Michael Taussig’s ficto-criticism of Latin American economies.  I cite these…

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Posted in Anthropology
March 17, 2017

Perennialism and Primitivism In Psychedelic Religions, Part 1 (Roger Green)

The following is the first of a three-part series.  The second part can be found here. In this essay I am going to explore New Religious Movements (NRMs) emergent in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries that use entheogens or psychedelic substances as sacrament.  This means that the use of mind-altering substances…

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Posted in Music
October 15, 2016

Avant-Garde Jazz and the Posthuman (Roger Green)

Recently in Boulder, Colorado I had a chance to play guitar for the Ron Miles quintet.  The trumpeter / cornetist Ron Miles, is a long-time mentor and friend, and we have at times appeared together live and on each other’s recording projects. Both Ron and I come from a Denver-based…