by Howly Wolf » Mon Jun 24, 2019 5:44 pm
My theory is that Spent's anti-narrative is rooted in nihilism. Perhaps he gazed too long into the abyss of the OSP and, overwhelmed by a crisis of purpose, adopted Dada to counter the meaninglessness of an antiquated forum. But gone are the days of "Karawane". What, after all, is absurdity when The President (whose name I can't recall at the moment) unspools impromptu strings of psychobabble on a daily basis? No, sound poetry has no place in this political moment. The post-fact era demands an inversion of absurdity itself, a proposition linguists refer to as quod impar or "wacky fact". In this essay I will
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