Tag Archives: iteration

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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Unpacking iterations in Walter Benjamin

Posted on January 28, 2013 by Jacob Edmond

Walter Benjamin is perhaps the writer we most commonly associate with the recognition of the changes induced in the work of art by the “age of mechanical reproduction” in the modernist period. In that essay, Benjamin’s focus is primarily on … Continue reading →

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Gertrude Stein and the iterations of the book

Posted on January 24, 2013 by Jacob Edmond

My new post on Jacket2 begins: In our digital age, the printed book is often seen as resisting the immateriality and inauthenticity of the digital text through its “aura,” “singularity,” “authenticity,” “materiality,” and “bookness”––to cite some key terms from a … Continue reading →

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Poetry and Piracy: Copyright and Poetic Licence

Posted on December 12, 2012 by Jacob Edmond

Here is a video of a talk I gave recently on copying, copyright, and contemporary poetry with reference to Kim Dotcom, Socrates, Plato, print culture, Hegel, Mitt Romney, J.D. Salinger, Monty Python, Charles Dickens, Richard Prince, Kenneth Goldsmith, Simon Morris, … Continue reading →

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Revolution with a Twist: Kamau Brathwaite

Posted on November 21, 2012 by Jacob Edmond

I have begun what will be a series of posts on the poetics of iteration for Jacket2 under four broad headings: revolution, copyright, translation, and the book. My first post is on “Revolution with a Twist” and draws on the … Continue reading →

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