February 2012
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Poet's Work
Grandfather
advised me:
Learn a trade
I learned
to sit at desk
and condense
No layoff
from this
condensery
- Lorine Niedecker, more here
When the work of art is instead offered for aesthetic enjoyment and its formal...
– Giorgio Agamben, Man Without Content, p. 102 (via yourharbour)
This is one of those ideas that takes itself way too seriously, but on the other hand might be exactly right. The concept of an “origin that gives itself in the work of art and remains reserved in it” probably isn’t...