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Comment by Ptrzia (TICTAC) on May 9, 2012 at 8:30am

many thanks DeVillo for the great introduction, very focused as usual.

Comment by De Villo Sloan on May 9, 2012 at 2:45am

Thanks, edition #2 is one of my all-time favs. Rosa Gravino's chapter arrived a few days ago & is over the top. I'm still not done blogging chapters.

 

Cleo, pomo stretched across four goddamned decades, if you trace. For me, it became "The Thing That Wouldn't Die." It became totally the realm of critics & theorists. Certainly it was trendy at several different stages - but the worst - and I think I remember the era you're talking about - was when the theories were so impossibly incomprehensible that the students it was being foisted upon had no real idea what it was about, most of their professors even less, but people felt like they had to jump on the bandwagon because it must be cool. I think it maybe really is gone now & it's safe to go back in the water. However, the clean-up that toxic spill will take a long time. The people who started it never had any intention that it would become what it became and many them ended up its most badly maimed victims. But that's true of most things.

Comment by Nancy Bell Scott on May 9, 2012 at 1:32am

DVS, thank you very much for the vispo2 intro! Well done and thought-provoking as usual ~

Comment by John M. Bennett on May 9, 2012 at 1:14am

Thanks for the intro, De Villo!  most useful -

onword

john

Comment by De Villo Sloan on May 8, 2012 at 9:19pm

"Piece of work"

Comment by De Villo Sloan on May 8, 2012 at 9:18pm

Spell chick needs her insulin.

Comment by Claire (aka Cleo) on May 8, 2012 at 9:18pm

Thanks for the heads Cheryl - keep us posted!

Comment by De Villo Sloan on May 8, 2012 at 9:18pm

Meta L = metalanguage, which probably is a real differnces between pomos & mods.

 

There is a kind of Cargo Cult in Africa that thingk Rimbaud is still alive - that's in the lexicon too. He sends people letters now and then.

Comment by cheryl penn on May 8, 2012 at 9:16pm

Thank you :-) - I confess to looking Ourang-Outang while writing the blog (for tomorrow)... Hey Cleo - Meta-L is a fine piece of work I received from De Villo for my book collection which will be exhibited in October.  I will be posting the blog tomorrow - so please take a look - sounds like its work right up your street :-) X

Comment by De Villo Sloan on May 8, 2012 at 9:15pm

Cleo, I see some of the disconnect is that I'm thinking of pomo lit & theory & you are factoring in pomo art. Geez, what I've seen of pomo art. Personally, I think that was a bust, short-lived.

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