The Conceptualist Ends of Writing and the End of Conceptualism. Issue 1 (April 2020)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- The Conceptualist Ends of Writing and the End of Conceptualism. Issue 1 (April 2020)
- Main Title:
- The Conceptualist Ends of Writing and the End of Conceptualism
- Authors:
- Armand, Louis
- Abstract:
- Abstract : This essay examines the convergence of conceptualist poetics with evolutionary code as a form of 'becoming alien'. The focus is Christian Bök's The Xenotext project: an attempt at translating a 'short verse about language and genetics', using a chemical alphabet, into a DNA sequence implanted into the genome of a polyextremophile bacterium capable of enduring conditions in outerspace. Bök describes the project as, 'in effect, engineering a life-form so that it becomes not only a durable archive for storing a poem, but also as an operant machine for writing a poem – one that can persist on the planet until the sun itself explodes …'. The concrete, constraint-based character of Bök's project evokes a mode of writing between posthumanist aesthetics and a positivist grammatology by turns deconstructive and itself requiring of deconstruction.
- Is Part Of:
- CounterText. Volume 6:Issue 1(2020:Apr.)
- Journal:
- CounterText
- Issue:
- Volume 6:Issue 1(2020:Apr.)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 6, Issue 1 (2020)
- Year:
- 2020
- Volume:
- 6
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2020-0006-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 63
- Page End:
- 77
- Publication Date:
- 2020-04
- Subjects:
- posthumanism -- technopoetics -- code poetry -- alienism -- semiocapitalism -- bioart -- Christian Bök -- The Xenotext
English literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism -- Periodicals
Culture -- Philosophy -- Periodicals
820.9 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.euppublishing.com/loi/count ↗
http://www.euppublishing.com/journals ↗ - DOI:
- 10.3366/count.2020.0182 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 2056-4406
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- Legaldeposit
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