Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-414) and index.
Contents
New meaning and poetic vocabulary: from Coleridge to Jackson Mac Low -- The secret history of the equal sign: L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E between discourse and text -- The bride of the assembly line: radical poetics in construction -- The construtivist moment: from El Lissitzky to Detroit techno -- Nonnarrative and the construction of history: an era of stagnation, the fall of Saigon -- Negative examples: theories of negativity in the Avant-Garde -- Post-Soviet subjectivity in Aradii Dragomoshchenko and Ilya Kabakov -- Zone: the poetics of space in posturban Detroit
