Archivi tag: Jim Leftwich

polyasemic thinking: a brief future / jim leftwich. 2022

One thing I particularly reinsinuate about the idea of asemic writing is its persistence. Once the idea gets inside a brain, it refuses to go away. It mutates and proliferates.

Once the asemic cat got out of the bag, it set off on a mission to conquer the world.

There is a kind of pareidolia prevalent among practitioners and theorists of asemic writing; we may not see the face of Jesus in a greasy frying pan, but we do see quasi-alphabetical shapes just about everywhere. It is hard not to be joyfully reinsinuated in the presence of such a life-affirming mutagenesis of ubiquitous formlessness.

No matter whether we experience it as pre-word or post-word (I could make a case for either, or both), once the virus of asemic writing invades and occupies the brain, it imposes the shape of its cultural desire on everything in its path.

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otoliths #65 is now live

Issue sixty-five of OTOLITHS, the southern autumn 2022 issue, is now up.otoliths 65

This issue, which marks the beginning of the seventeenth year of the journal’s existence, contains a mix of — sometimes mixed — photographs, paintings, short stories, poetry, interviews, magazine columns, & manifestos from an international contributor list including Karl Kempton, Linda King, Mark Pirie, Dario Zumkeller, AG Davis, Mark Cunningham, Sanjeev Sethi, Ken Friedman, Demosthenes Agrafiotis, James Cochran, Jim Leftwich, hiromi suzuki, Michael J. Leach, Elancharan Gunasekaran, Louise Landes Levi, KJ Hannah Greenberg, Chuck Joy, Marco Giovenale, Jimmy Crouse, Andrew Cyril Macdonald, Nicholas Alexander Hayes, Mario José Cervantes, Timothy Pilgrim, Alan Catlin, Paul Ilechko, Jim Meirose, Adam Fieled, Gregory Stephenson, John Sweet, Sterling Warner, Jack Galmitz, Lynn Strongin, Texas Fontanella, Richard J. Fleming, Sarah Bilodeau, M.J. Iuppa, John M. Bennett, Carla Bertola & John M. Bennett, Harvey Huddleston, bofa xesjum, fred flynn, John McCluskey, Ben Egerton, John Gallas, Nathan Whiting, Laurent Grison, Volodymyr Bilyk, Xe M. Sánchez, Ellen Wardman, Barbara Parchim, Bruce Robinson, Jeff Bagato, jim mccrary, Gale Acuff, Grzegorz Wróblewski, harry k stammer, Howie Good, Jen Schneider, Alberto Vitacchio, richard lopez & Márton Koppány, Heather Sager, Keith Polette, Michael Basinski, Luis Cuauhtémoc Berriozábal, Daniel f Bradley, Dave Read, Robert Beveridge, Tom Beckett, Mary Kasimor, Connor van Bussel, R. S. Stewart, Tony Beyer, Daniel de Culla, John Levy, Joanne Bechtel, Kenneth Rexroth, Nathan Anderson, Jeff Harrison, Bill Wolak, Clara B. Jones, Nicole Raziya Fong, Charles A. Perrone, Russ Bickerstaff, Paul Dickey, Sabine Miller, Keith Nunes, Diana Magallón, Bob Lucky, Cecelia Chapman & Jeff Crouch, bart plantenga, Joshua Martin, Jillian Oliver, Réka Nyitrai, Marilyn Stablein, Jerome Berglund, Christopher Barnes, Peter Cherches, Jürgen O. Olbrich & Hubert Kretschmer, Kay Kestner, Cameron Morse, Eric Hoffman, Gavin Lucky, Kiriti Sengupta, Patrick Sweeney, Robin Wyatt Dunn, Jane Simpson, Elmedin Kadric, Kit Kennedy, Steven Tran, dan raphael, Andrew Taylor, Charlotte Jung, Michael Borth, Carol Stetser, Penelope Weiss, Marcia Arrieta, John M. Bennett & Jim Leftwich, Márton Koppány, Rich Murphy, Cecelia Chapman, J. D. Nelson, Kit Willett, Angelo ‘NGE’ Colella, H. A. Sappho, Martin Stannard, Michael Brandonisio, Paul Pfleuger, Jr., Katrinka Moore, David Jalajel, Keith Higginbotham, Susan Gangel, Judith Skillman, Bob Heman, & Guy R. Beining.

“utsanga” #30-31

https://www.utsanga.it/

skeletonized egerminated auctioneer / jim leftwich. 2022

archive.org file:

slowforward pdf:
https://slowforward.files.wordpress.com/2022/02/leftwich-jim_-skeletonized-egerminated-auctioneer.pdf

scribd/slowforward:
[scribd id=559077844 key=key-ZgVbUsFoqo6Prb0UjVV1 mode=scroll]

accesso temporaneo alla cartella “extrasemics”

In occasione di questo evento, ho chiesto a parecchi artisti di inviare materiali. Alcuni di loro hanno spedito opere ora inserite in questa cartella. Date uno sguardo.
Presto sarà preparato un pdf con una selezione. Per ora è comunque possibile apprezzare l’intera serie di immagini. Non sarà sempre in rete.

On the occasion of this event, I asked for contributions to several artists. Some of them sent works now stored in this folder. Take a look.
Soon a pdf with a selection will be made. As for now, enjoy the whole set of images. It won’t be on line forever.

artisti / artists:

Andrea Astolfi, Levente Bakos, John M. Bennett, May Bery, Francesca Biasetton, Silvia Bordini, Angelo Calandro, Axel Calatayud, Cecelia Chapman, Jeff Crouch+Cecelia Chapman, Pietro D’Agostino+Marco Giovenale, Adelin Donnay, Federico Federici, Steven J. Fowler, Luis Gonzalez Boix, Mariangela Guatteri, Michael Jacobson, Edward Kulemin, Jim Leftwich, Diana Magallon, John McConnochie, Keith McKay, Miriam Midley, Claudio Molina, Michelle Moloney King, Laura Ortiz, Franco Panella, Enzo Patti, Antonio Francesco Perozzi, Mariella Ramondo, Tommasina Bianca Squadrito, Lina Stern, Miron Tee, Cecil Touchon, Paulino Valdelomar.

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(C) I file nei folder extrAsemics sono di proprietà esclusiva degli autori. Ne è concessa solo la visione personale. Copie, appropriazione, riuso, editing non autorizzato ecc. sono proibiti.

(C) The files in the extrAsemics folders are an exclusive property of their authors. Only personal vision permitted. Copies, appropriation, re-use, unauthorised editing etc. are forbidden.

 

asemic translation:

jim leftwich, ongoing research

​Jim Leftwich, Ongoing Research

Terms for Study & Application
1997 – 2022

asemic texts
asemic writing
gestural & letteral
quasi-calligraphic drawing
useless writing
bag texts
pansemic writing / pansemia
textimagepoem / textimagepoetry
trashpo
writing against itself
varieties of asemous experience
stampdance
magickal absurdities
gonzosemic
3-chord linguistics
pansemic phlogiston​​
pansemic reading

https://jimleftwichvisualpoems2022.blogspot.com/

textimagepoem blogzine

SUNDAY, JANUARY 16, 2022

jim leftwich, a page from No Such Thing As Repetition (2001)

jim leftwich
Death Text Book 8 (2003)
When bears prevail Take ___ breath (microbooks, 2011)
Pixies—-Calcium (2010)
Things Rescued From Eternal Nonexistence (2001)
No Such Thing As Repetition (2001)
WHAT (1996)
turtle fish sun flower. cat kite beetle boat. (2001)
noodle had (2001)
quasi-letteral anti-calligraphy (2011)
mead memo (2007)
mead memo (2004-2007)
mead memo (2002-2006)
mead memo (2006)

Labels: 2001asemic writinghistoriographyjim leftwichmicropress publishingongoing researchvisual poetry

POSTED BY JIM LEFTWICH AT 8:20 AM 

errata/corrige: some recent links by jim leftwich

sonntets:

ex-ex-lit.blogspot.com/2021/12/jim-leftwich-sonnets.html

interview:

https://jimleftwichtextimagepoem.blogspot.com/2021/11/jim-leftwich-interviewed-by-burak-s.html

examples of a certain kind of thinking #2:

https://jimleftwichtextimagepoem.blogspot.com/2021/11/jim-leftwich-examples-of-certain-kind.html

5 Books of Visual Poetry & Asemic Writing (2021):

https://jimleftwichtextimagepoem.blogspot.com/2021/11/jim-leftwich-5-books-of-visual-poetry.html

writing against itself:

https://jimleftwichtextimagepoem.blogspot.com/2021/11/writing-against-itself-jim-leftwich-2016.html

jim leftwich: some recent links

sonntets:

ex-ex-lit.blogspot.com/2021/12/jim-leftwich-sonnets.html

interview:

https://jimleftwichtextimagepoem.blogspot.com/2021/11/jim-leftwich-interviewed-by-burak-s.html

examples of a certain kind of thinking #2:

https://jimleftwichtextimagepoem.blogspot.com/2021/11/jim-leftwich-examples-of-certain-kind.html

5 Books of Visual Poetry & Asemic Writing (2021):

https://jimleftwichtextimagepoem.blogspot.com/2021/11/jim-leftwich-5-books-of-visual-poetry.html

writing against itself:

https://jimleftwichtextimagepoem.blogspot.com/2021/11/writing-against-itself-jim-leftwich-2016.html