Monthly Archives: March 2013

Vitaly Chernetsky reviews A Common Strangeness

Posted on March 22, 2013 by Jacob Edmond

“Jacob Edmond has written a remarkable book—impassioned, theoretically astute, and timely—that deserves to garner significant response across many fields in the humanities.” ––Vitaly Chernetsky (Miami University; author of Mapping Postcommunist Cultures: Russia and Ukraine in the Context of Globalization), reviewing … Continue reading →

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Prigov’s visual poems in English

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Jacob Edmond

I’m very excited that someone is finally having a go at translating Dmitri Prigov’s Stikhogrammy into English. Kristin Reed is a braver soul than me, and it’s wonderful to see her translations of what she terms Prigov’s Versographies published in the … Continue reading →

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Burnt Copies

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Jacob Edmond

The final post in my Jacket2 commentary on “Iterations” takes a very local turn. Like Prigov’s Little Coffins, New Zealand artist Campbell Walker’s 2012 work The Crime LINKS in the Smoke is an undead work that plays on the print book … Continue reading →

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Kenneth Goldsmith unpacks Walter Benjamin’s library

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Jacob Edmond

When Dmitri Prigov explores the relationship between the book as material object and endlessly repeating copy, he anticipates a similar interest in the relationship between copy and singular material instantiation in Anglophone conceptual writing. One of the leading figures in … Continue reading →

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