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Founding documents #8: Comments that may not have existed hitherto
In the spring of 2011, while I was a student at CalArts, I enrolled in a course, led by Jen Hofer, called “Literary Citizenship: Tiny Press Practices.” The class’s culminating project was for each student to produce a handmade, semi-reproducible book object. The remainder of the course was a wide-ranging survey/seminar on the methods and […]
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HISTORY by Ddum Kim
“There were eight scripts, eight historians in all and you must know them if we are to be perfect. Imperfection a fear instilled by ghosts. Turning from menacing to violent, closing in as I ran through the woods, a telltale sign that a copy was subpar, must be amended or discarded altogether. The residue of […]
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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 […]