"I had never before been so touched and captured by any other urgencies than by these mystical connections, literally floating in the ether."
Friedrich Jürgenson
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"It’s important to see Throbbing Gristle as a supreme non-band, a group of individuals who thought fashion the enemy: Whereas Marilyn Manson gave himself digitized breasts for the cover of Mechanical Animals, P-Orridge had a pair (to match his girlfriend’s) implanted for real; pop divas play with the idea of sexuality, whereas Fanni Tutti was a bona fide porn model and actress."
Brandon Stosuy
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Literature is nothing but the residue of an old technology in the process of reinventing itself as static…
Most recent “experimental” poetry is political ideology reconfigured as disco party with no noise…
The greatest poems are psychotropic poems that cannot be read but only listened to…
a timeless and impersonal modernism, one marked by the disintegration of voices into background music or sound, a peculiar recording of voicelessness that one hears in both The Waste Land and Four Quartets as well as in much electronica …
The only way to read is acrobatically, fast and with lots of background noise (disco music or television), for that encourages more speed and more rapid processing of the information that cannot be processed except as a function of peripheral seeing and distracted absorption…
To read poetry carefully and slowly is to miss the point, which is the blur…
Stein not only created genre-less writing (a major accomplishment) she also created language-less writing (a miracle) and she created the generic sound of all previous and future written languages (more than a miracle.)…
To diagram that electrical circuit will be the main task of poetry readers (listeners) who are future writers.
"Tan Lin
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