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messaggi ai poeti (#11)


vediamo se riesco a spiegarmi:


Kenny Goldsmith’s “The Weather” [by Charles Bernstein: Second edition]

here:

http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/bernstein/blog/archive/weather-2011.html


messaggi ai poeti (#03)

vediamo se riesco a spiegarmi:

Against Expression

an Anthology of Conceptual Writing
Craig Dworkin
Kenneth Goldsmith

In much the same way that photography forced painting to move in new directions, the advent of the World Wide Web, with its proliferation of easily transferable and manipulated text, forces us to think about writing, creativity, and the materiality of language in new ways. In Against Expression, editors Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith present the most innovative works responding to the challenges posed by these developments. Charles Bernstein has described conceptual poetry as “poetry pregnant with thought.” Against Expression, the premier anthology of conceptual writing, presents work that is by turns thoughtful, funny, provocative, and disturbing. Dworkin and Goldsmith, two of the leading spokespersons and practitioners of conceptual writing, chart the trajectory of the conceptual aesthetic from early precursors including Samuel Beckett and Marcel Duchamp to the most prominent of today’s writers. Nearly all of the major avant-garde groups of the past century are represented here, including Dada, OuLiPo, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, and Flarf to name just a few, but all the writers are united in their imaginative appropriation of found and generated texts and their exploration of nonexpressive language. Against Expression is a timely collection and an invaluable resource for readers and writers alike.

http://www.nupress.northwestern.edu/Title/tabid/68/ISBN/0-8101-2711-3/Default.aspx

wall, 2010

aprile :
intervista sull'”Ulisse”, da cui è tratto questo segmento:

Sono particolarmente interessato ai caratteri installativi dei testi verbali, che sarei tentato di definire in molti casi postverbali. Macchine elencative interminabili, blocchi verticali di textus che esce proprio quantitativamente dal campo della tessitura, del rinvio sonoro, lineare, performabile, per entrare semmai in quello della scultura, del volume-massa, dell’oggettualità piena, fissa. (Words to be looked at, recita significativamente il titolo del saggio di Liz Kotz dedicato non a caso a «Language in 1960s Art», MIT Press, 2007).

Se penso a Il dramma della vita, di Valère Novarina (la cui conclusione esce in italiano su Nazione indiana, tradotta da Andrea Raos), o ai monoliti che punteggiano le uscite di http://hotelstendhal.blogsome.com, o ai flowchart ritoccati di Brunt, di Emilio Villa, o ancora alle opere in rete di Jim Leftwich, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, Peter Ganick, non mi torna affatto come eco distante un’idea di scrittura di scena che (si) fa muro: muro-scena, opera verbovisiva in sostanza. (Che perda o meno il suo carattere alfabetico cellulare, costituitivo). È una delle vie di comunicazione verso la visual poetry, anche.

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giugno :
recentissimo testo di Peter Ganick, nella cui pagina di presentazione su Lulu.com si parla precisamente di “wall of text”:

What is a text? After John Coltrane’s “wall of sound”, we have here a “wall of text”. What does making sense entail? Is it in the words themselves and/or the sequence of words? In “An Archeology of Theory”, Peter Ganick suggests both and neither in true spatial reference. Energy is space is a version here-to-be-read.

cfr.
http://slowforward.wordpress.com/2010/06/28/wall-of-text-stele-di-testo/