Yes, agree completely. But Oulipo existed within a free milieu of like-
minded individuals and equals - notions of revolutionary novelty and
fun lay behind their creative impulse, no matter if that impulse was
literary, scientific, mathematical or political. That is a far far
thing from the stale institutional conformity that characterises many
current milieus of artistic creativity
CONFORM CONFORM - PLEASE YOUR TUTOR - CONFORM CONFORM - GET THE GRADES
- CONFORM CONFORM - IT'S COOL.
Cheers
Tim
On 29 Aug 2010, at 04:09, Jim Andrews wrote:
> The Oulipo, which started in 1960, quite openly is not so much about
> creating poemy texts as creating interesting "constraints" or
> "rules" of generation or 'formal axioms' or whatnot from which texts
> may arise or be generated.
>
> Why should poemy poems be utterly primary in the notion of poetry?
> Try that for thirty years and see if yer still awake. There's more
> happening in language and art than that approach.
>
> ja
> http://vispo.com
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