Emptying Words:  Demilitarizing, Denoting, and Delight

Emptying Words: Demilitarizing, Denoting, and Delight

Written By: Diane Mullin Constellation 19 4.1.12

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 [...]

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Slicing and Stretching Time: Luke DuBois and Digital Manipulability

Slicing and Stretching Time: Luke DuBois and Digital Manipulability

Written By: Diane Mullin Constellation 08 6.1.10

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 [...]

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Constellation 19

4.1.2012

Wildly, Erica: Fun With Word Art

In honor of the cruel and foolish month of April, Quodlibetica undergoes autocorrect to emerge as Wildly Erica, an issue dedicated to word play in all forms: cinepoetry and flarf, nano-memoirs and signs of the future, the cacophonous/mellifluous world of sound poetry, nonsense that makes sense, and general frolic on the ragged margin of understanding. Read on here.

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