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Founding documents #10: Jackets before gutters, gutters before spines, spines before interiors, dust all the time
Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 1:52 PM From: Joe Milazzo To: Joe Potts, Eric Lindley, Janice Lee […] As to the cover: yes, a certain high degree of unadornment is perfectly fine. But I’m attaching here two simple “proof of concept” images for cover consideration. One is simply a sandpaper texture, as we discussed way […]
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HTMLGIANT Reviews [out of nothing] #0
Check out Grant Maierhofer’s wonderful review: OUT OF NOTHING #[0]; Or, blurbing the whole cacophony, over at HTMLGIANT. A wonderful, thoughtful, & comprehensive writeup of [out of nothing] #0. An excerpt: When the opportunity presented itself to review the printed edition of [out of nothing] recently, I jumped on it quicker than anything I’ve jumped […]
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Jacques Derrida Interviews Vanessa Place
Jacques Derrida interviews OON #0 (& OON #1) contributor Vanessa Place: Jacques Derrida: Like my texts, your work is often considered difficult, on the limits of readability. Why is it always the conceptual writer who is expected to be “easier” and not some scientist or other who […]
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Interview With Chris Sylvester
Walter Benjamin: What creative work is currently occupying you? Chris Sylvester: I have this poem where there is a verbal organization or formal scheme and then I fill its places or its slots with different names for boys and girls from a fund of names for boys and girls Fantasy is involved WB: In the […]
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Nicholas Grider in Conversation with Jean Baudrillard
In the latest of our interview series, Jean Baudrillard interviews OON #0 contributor Nicholas Grider: Jean Baudrillard: When you write, what is the most generous and most strict way you can frame the territory in which your writing operates? That is to say, in what sense is your work the […]
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Interview With Danielle Adair
In the latest of our interview series, Jacques Derrida interviews OON #0 contributor Danielle Adair: Jacques Derrida: I’d like to set aside the usual biographical brushworks, and start instead with your 2006 text and audio piece Reflections By Danielle Adair on Jack Goldstein and the CalArts Mafia. What is […]
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Interview With Christine Wertheim
Søren Kierkegaard: Can you talk a bit about your piece in #0? I’m especially interested in the question of who is Pamela Aber. Christine Wertheim: Pamela Aber is a woman who was captured by Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda, when she WAS 18. Like many of the adults and children […]
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Postcardmancy
phi = the golden ratio n = the order in which our sendee ordered its copy of the journal f(n) = the Fibonacci number corresponding to n. For instance, p(1) = 1, p(3) = 2 p(n) = the prime number corresponding to n. For instance, p(1) = 2, p(3) = 5 round(x) is a function that rounds […]
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Interview With Maureen Alsop
Walter Benjamin: What creative work is currently occupying you? Maureen Alsop: Let’s study the topography. Walter, when you questioned the bunting’s trill then mouthed back over the stream, I could not stop the alstroemeria’s impossibly small blossom. Snow lacerates the valley. Meaning there is no disrespect for your transition—flakes puncture the dry edge of […]
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Interview With Søren Kierkegaard
OON: We see a lot of cross-genre work here at [out of nothing]—texts that occupy a kind of interstitial space between fiction, philosophy and even the sciences sometimes. What’s your feeling on that, given that your writing at the time seemed to blend a lot of these elements, well before we had any discourse on […]
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Interview With Jean Baudrillard
OON: If death is the ne plus ultra of alienation (from self; from mind; from body), what state lies beyond the borders of alienation? JB: I can only speak hypothetically about such a position. Our experience is alien to the extent that there is something of a paradox in even supposing a state beyond its […]
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Interview With Walter Benjamin
OON: Looking at the current landscape of experimental and/or avant-garde literature, what are your thoughts on categories such as conceptual writing or the “new sincerity”? WB: I fear that, in the years intervening between my demise—about which I should not joke, but, now that I can see how the nimbus of history has hardened into […]