I have made cuts, as an editor does, but I didn’t introduce words of my own. Even abbreviation changes content, and even character.
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Museum unveils Bronte’s teeny tiny early work
A manuscript by British author Charlotte Brontë that fits comfortably into the palm of a hand that fetched 691,000 pounds ($1.1 million) at a Sotheby’s auction in December, more than twice the upper estimate, went on display this week.
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John Kelsey, Depesrsion, Impoetnce, 2012.
Kelsey repurposed found language from spam emails for these “poems,” which he presents on paper featuring the old Whitney Museum insignia, the eagle. The lists of names indicate the emails’ senders, the titles are drawn from the subject lines, and the “stanzas” consist of the seemingly random, cut and pasted content of the messages.
Bottom right photograph by Tyko
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A Robert Creeley visual translation, in Rhinozeros, a German literary magazine edited by the Dienst brothers. (via: the r-x)
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Behind the hypnotized grimaces of official pacification there is a war. We can no longer merely call it economic, or social, or humanitarian. It has become total. By now everyone has felt their existence becoming a battlefield on which neuroses, phobias, somatizations, depression, and anxiety each beat their respective retreats; yet nobody has managed to grasp the meaning of their trajectory or what is really at stake. Paradoxically, it is the total nature of this war—total in its means no less than its ends—that has allowed it to cloak itself in such invisibility.
It is like this: Imagine you hold the cover of a book up to a mirror and the lettering is not reversed. What this means is that you are not seeing a reflection of the book but rather the book itself. What this means is that you are not yourself but rather your reflection.
I see the book.
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Adam Pendleton, NLG Knowledge, Documenta 1, 1955, Museum Fridericianum Exhibition View, 2007. (via: grupa o.k.)
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Marcel Proust playing air guitar on a tennis racket.
The next chapter to this book?—Matt Mullican’s interactive project for Triple Canopy, “Planetarium,” in which readers navigate a scale model of the solar system.
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