Emptying Words: Demilitarizing, Denoting, and Delight
By Diane Mullin
Our poetry now/ is the realization that we possess nothing/ anything therefore is a delight/ (since we do not pos-sess it) and thus need not fear its loss/ We need not destroy the past; it is gone/ at any moment, it might reappear and seem to be [...]
Slicing and Stretching Time: Luke DuBois and Digital Manipulability
By Diane Mullin
The subject of this brief essay is temporal scale and its manipulation in the work of composer, performer, digital artist and filmmaker, R. Luke DuBois. In particular, I consider the relationship of this work to the relatively recent idea of “infinite digital reproducibility” in the context of Walter Benjamin’s idea of mechanical or technical reproducibility [...]