The Dust, Michael Gottlieb

The Dust, Michael Gottlieb From Against Expression, Edited by Kenneth Goldsmith and Craig Dworkin: 282: Without hypotaxis, narrative, or discursiveness, “The Dust” (Lost and Found [New York: Roof,…

Sophia Le Fraga’s ‘W8ING 4’

From First reading of Sophia Le Fraga’s ‘W8ING 4’ (1) by Joshua Weiner: First, some a priori statements. A poem is made out of language. Language arises out of need;…

Underworld, Don Delillio

From Rewiring the Real by Mark C. Taylor: 191: People, things, and events proliferate in narratives and counternarratives that simultaneously connect and disconnect, until everything becomes somewhat chaotic….

Airport Study (Supersymmetrie) 7, Jorinde Voigt

From Vitamin D2 by Martin Herbert: Superimpose the known facts about Joined Voigt’s circuitous route to art-making onto her breathtakingly elaborate drawings – which recall wavelength diagrams, chalcedonic…

(Waiting for -) Texts for Nothing’ Samuel Beckett, in play, Joseph Kosuth

From Circa Art Magazine Joseph Kosuth: ‘Texts (Waiting for-) for Nothing’ Samuel Beckett, in play, by Tim Maul The manipulation of lighting sets the stage for drama. Entering the…

Ocean View, Gary Kibbins

Ocean View is reproduced with permission from Gary Kibbins. And he might reply, employing his extended spiritual vocabulary, that all raw experience contains the potential for developing a…

The Pale King and Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

From the Gospel According to David Foster Wallace by Adam S. Miller: 1. Boredom 13: The real is boring and user-unfriendly. It resists attention, it’s “a fact-pattern the…

Slogans for the 21st Century, Douglas Coupland

From Representations of Social Media in Popular Discourse (PhD thesis) by Pamela Ingleton: I first encountered this piece in everywhere is anywhere is anything is everything, the accompanying volume to…

Against Expression

From The Pros and Cons of Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing by Jennifer K Dick: The PROS: One rarely likes to be told how to read, where to position…

For Boredom Sounds

The Museum of Viral Memory’s House Mac, Vicki, reading User 23187425’s search queries (from I feel better after I type to you): Reading of Homer’s Iliad by Dr. Stanley Lombardo: From writing.upenn.edu: Top…