{"product_id":"736","title":"Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing","description":"\u003cp\u003eEditors: Craig Dworkin, Kenneth Goldsmith\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher: Northwestern University Press (2011)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn much the same way that photography forced painting to move in new directions, the advent of the World Wide Web, with its proliferation of easily transferable and manipulated text, forces us to think about writing, creativity, and the materiality of language in new ways. In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAgainst Expression,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eeditors Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith present the most innovative works responding to the challenges posed by these developments.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCharles Bernstein has described conceptual poetry as \"poetry pregnant with thought.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAgainst Expression,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe premier anthology of conceptual writing, presents work that is by turns thoughtful, funny, provocative, and disturbing. Dworkin and Goldsmith, two of the leading spokespersons and practitioners of conceptual writing, chart the trajectory of the conceptual aesthetic from early precursors including Samuel Beckett and Marcel Duchamp to the most prominent of today’s writers. Nearly all of the major avant-garde groups of the past century are represented here, including Dada, OuLiPo, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, and Flarf to name just a few, but all the writers are united in their imaginative appropriation of found and generated texts and their exploration of nonexpressive language. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAgainst Expression\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a timely collection and an invaluable resource for readers and writers alike.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chicago Distribution Center","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32501964406883,"sku":"9780810127111","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/8655\/1139\/files\/againstexpression_908c597c-eedf-47df-bddf-4161c5dfa49f.jpg?v=1774999909","url":"https:\/\/woodlandpatternbookcenter.com\/products\/736","provider":"Woodland Pattern","version":"1.0","type":"link"}