disruption of syntax. disruption of the image. disruption of the audio
signal, of the media. cut up. cut together. algorithmic weaving together of
the materials. disruption of semantics. the surrealists approached it as
automatism. oulipo approached it quite differently but they still share this
materialist poetics of disruption/disjunction. the language poets approached
it different from both the surrealists and oulipo but, again, the
disjunctive materialist poetics. disjunction. the disjunctive.
and then the computer age. which assimilates these methods very naturally,
even organically, into materialist poetics of the algorithic/processual.
ja
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> --thanks, Jim. And thanks to everyone who has contributed to this
> discussion. Indeed, keep the thoughts coming. I'm very interested to hear
> more of this yoking--if only provisionally--of materialist poetics with
> 'disruption' too, Jim. I worked recently on Peter Manson's *Adjunct* which
> I
> argued performs a kind of (Benjamian) historical materialism, yet one that
> is flawed due to its concomitant investment in syntactic or referential
> materialism. That whole work disrupts the material of information in, for
> me, a really fascinating way.
>
> Jamie, no offence was inferred, your comment made me laugh.
>
> Ta everyone.
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