Tag: text is about nothing

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;…

(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…

Rewiring the Real

109: The text is about nothing – always about nothing. Nothing is what keeps the text in play by rendering it irreducibly open and in/finitely complex. The nothingness haunts the text marks…