Jean-Luc Nancy: The Inoperative Community (1986–) [EN, ES, CR, RO]
Filed under book | Tags: · community, literature, love, myth, philosophy, politics, subjectivity, writing
“In this powerful work, Jean-Luc Nancy examines community as an idea that has dominated modern thought and traces its relation to concepts of experience, discourse, and the individual. Contrary to popular Western notions of community, Nancy shows that it is neither a project of fusion nor production. Rather, he argues, community can be defined through the political nature of its resistance against immanent power.”
Publisher Christian Bourgois, Paris, 1986
New edition, 2004
ISBN 22670008939
278 pages
English edition
Edited by Peter Connor
Translated by Peter Connor, Lisa Garbus, Michael Holland, and Simona Sawhney
Foreword by Christopher Fynsk
Publisher University of Minnesota Press, 1991
Theory and History of Literature series, 76
176 pages
Publisher (FR)
Publisher (EN)
WorldCat (FR)
WorldCat (EN)
The Inoperative Community (English, ed. Peter Connor, 1991)
La comunidad inoperante (Spanish, trans. Juan Manuel Garrido Wainer, 2000)
Dva ogleda. Razdjelovljena zajednica. O singularnom pluralnom bitku (Croatian, trans. Tomislav Medak, 2003)
Comunitatea absentă (Romanian, trans. Emilian Cioc, 2005, 69 MB)
L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, 1–13 (1978–1981)
Filed under magazine | Tags: · avant-garde, language, literary theory, literature, poetics, poetry
“L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E was an avant-garde poetry magazine edited by Charles Bernstein and Bruce Andrews that ran thirteen issues from 1978 to 1981. Along with This it is the magazine most often referenced as the breeding ground for the group of writers who became known as the Language poets.” (from Wikipedia)
GIF pages and PDFs (on Eclipse)
Index (on Eclipse)
The L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book (1983, added on 2022-1-11)
See also:
L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Distributing Service, PDF catalog and commentary on Jacket2
The Poetics of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, a talk by Bruce Andrews, 2005, on UbuWeb
Andrews in EPC Digital Library
Bernstein in EPC Digital Library
Vanessa Place, Robert Fitterman: Notes on Conceptualisms (2009)
Filed under book | Tags: · appropriation, conceptual art, conceptual writing, flarf, language, literary theory, literature, poetics, poetry, sampling, writing
“What is conceptual writing, how does it differ from Conceptual Art, what are some of the dominant forms of conceptualism, where does an impure or hybrid conceptualism fit in, what about the baroque, what about the prosody of procedure, what are the links between appropriation and conceptual writing, how does conceptual writing rely on a new way of reading, a “thinkership” that can shift the focus away from the text and onto the concept, what is the relationship between conceptual writing and technology or information culture, and why has this tendency taken hold in the poetry community now? What follows, then, is a collection of notes, aphorisms, quotes and inquiries on conceptual writing. We have co-authored this text through correspondence, shared reading interests, and similar explorations. Notes on Conceptualisms is far from a definitive text, and much closer to a primer, a purposefully incomplete starting place, where readers, hopefully, can enter so as to participate.”
Publisher Ugly Duckling Presse, Brooklyn, NY, 2009
Open Access
ISBN 9781933254463
78 pages
Commentary: Ron Silliman (2009).
Reviews: Thom Donovan (BOMB, 2009), Christopher Higgs (Chapbook Review, 2009), Karla Kelsey (Octopus Magazine, c2010), Ken L. Walker (Coldfront, 2010), John Bloomberg-Rissman (Galatea Resurrects 16, 2011), Alethia Alfonso (Notas, 2011, ES), Joel Kopplin & Kurt Milberger (HTML Giant, 2013).
Dialogue between Vanessa Place and Tania Ørum (Jacket2, 2012)