On 05/05/13 01:34, Halvard Johnson wrote:
> Yes, Bernstein's list of "experiments" (more like exercises, though useful
> ones) is pretty well known
Just trying to get an idea of what experimental writing could mean, a
list such as this could fit with ease and comfit within the parameters
of knowledge management. It is then made available as controlled within
the university system of writing and literature (using controlled here
more in the French sense of being made to fit into the correct place.
Also a reference to Foucault and Societies of Control via Deleuze.)
It then appears that a list of techniques such as this becomes a list
of technical exercises that are considered a part of the experimental
traditions of Language Poetry. This is to say that experimental writing
is a striated collection of formal technical skills and nothing more.
After Derrida and following this deconstruction of Language Poetry,
writing, being here with Hegel at the end of the book and the beginning
of writing (Derrida, Of Gram, again) finds itself as the privileged
inscription of the written letter over speech. Logos comes to rule over
techne....
And writing, again becomes privileged markings over real bodies. The Mud
Maps collection seems to be making an intervention here in ways that,
could it be said, exceed the control Logos of Language poetry? Which
returns to the critical debates with early language poetry thinking and
the liits of a purely formal solution... (eg new narrative and the
questions of voice and body)
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