On 22 Feb 2010, at 15:23, richard owens wrote: no he didn't it was
Sean...
> would it be possible to make a political poem, song, artwork that
> was completely un-usable by its enemies? as in Benjamin's claim that
> his art-work essay was 'useless for the purposes of fascism'. is
> anything unrecuperable?
I doubt it.
I actually find this discussion quite funny. It always amused me how
some poets who were forever going on about things like 'the reader
finishes the poem', 'the reader writes the poem' etc and who set so
much store on the fluidity of possible readings that their texts might
engender would bristle if an interpretation/reading came up that they
did not like.
Tim A.
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