The Conceptualist Ends of Writing and the End of Conceptualism.
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 t...
| Publicado en: | CounterText Vol. 6; no. 1; pp. 63 - 78 |
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