> 2) Can architectural acoustic theory (reflection, diffusion, refraction,
> decay of sound, and the artifices of its absorption) serve as an heuristic
> tool for imaging the institutional interpolations (not obvious ones like
the
> Academy, but those at more inaudible frequencies) inhabiting the cultural
> structures of "avant-garde" poetry? If Yes, build a cardboard model of
such
> a tool. If No, try to build one anyway
Yes, but only on Sundays in an east wind. For other occasions the paratactic
paradigm can be found encapsulated in Gainsay and Guile 'Towards a Theory of
the Improbable, a venture in hyper-bollistics' and Nutt, Boom, and Case
'Body Space In Concrete Suits, a Teleology of Imponderable Evacuations'.
The cardboard box I mean model was erected in Manchester in contemporaneity
with the Smiths. It was called the Hulme Estate and people led there their
what could only loosely be described as lives.
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