Early readers fall into two camps:
"Most frustrating thing I've ever read." "Most profound thing I've read in years."
There is no middle ground.
I wrote about why we published it anyway — and what this book demands from its readers.
🦋 https://open.spotify.com/episode/04SNGOvTRyyfurpw1aRWJK?si=a0a389ba29954146 #TheMobiusCafe #LiteraryFiction #QuantumFiction #BookPodcast #ExperimentalWriting #IndiePublishing #ErisMirrane #BetweenTheCoversAndBeyond
#experimentalWriting
materiali recenti o recentissimi su ‘pontebianco’, ‘compostxt’, ‘differx’, ‘gammm’ et alia
il tenente / anonimo. 1952. ocr 2025
il cinema sovversivo surrealista, lettrista, situazionista, anarchista. l’essenziale in 40 schede
neutopia : rivista del possibile
inventario / ermanno guantini. 2025
ebook: il poeta è un delinquente / e. montaccini, m. morea, b. zito. 2022-25
Un catalogo di opere di Hanne Darboven, dallo Studio Bruno Tonini
Il libro di Frank, by CAConrad
#compostxt #experimentalWriting #gammm #link #linkRecenti #ponteBianco #pontebianco #postRecenti
per chi dovesse perdersi c’è un posto con qualche link – diricerca
questo:
https://diricerca.wordpress.com/
#000000 #diRicerca #diricerca #diricercaWordpressCom #experimentalWriting #link #linlkASiti #paginaStatica #ricercaLetteraria #scritturaComplessa #scritturaDiRicerca #scritturaSperimentale #scrittureComplesse #scrittureDiRicerca #scrittureSperimentali #sperimentazioneLetteraria #staticPage
the complete videos of “the re-appearing pheasant”: an encounter of american and italian poets and critics, new york, 11-12-13 nov 2022
https://slowforward.net/2025/08/30/r-_-the-complete-videos-of-the-re-appear
https://differx.noblogs.org/2025/08/30/the-complete-videos-of-the-re-appearing-pheasant-an-encounter-of-american-and-italian-poets-and-critics-new-york-11-12-13-nov-2022/
#SegnaliEAzioni #ZinesAuthors #ExperimentalWriting #ItalianLiterature #literature #TheReappearingPheasant
may 25: a text by differx @ ‘moss trill’
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thanks to Bill Allegrezza for hosting my prose piece
#differx #experimentalWriting #MossTrill #proseInProse #prosePiece #scritturaDiRicerca #scrittureDiRicerca #testiDiMgInRete #testiDiMgOnline
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colloqui dentro lo zero / luca zanini. 2024
I
[punto fermo] [l’ossido che] sanno che l’altro punto è visibile ma come assorbito è] un’area messa a pianeggiante ma dentro] i punti liberamente girano i fondi avvertiti l’esaurimento del testo per legge citabile o] [vedono qui ammanchi altri testi qui ] provocano coli
II
una falda di piovasco solleva irti mostrano i denti sono] inclassificabili portano le tese] [nota all’origine con inchiostro rosso “there is nothing
III
veduta di grafia illeggibile vedono che si forma sono vendute in particole sovrapponibili in] limite a sondaggio concluso passano] [frammenti compiuti per gli acquisti
per il parcheggio B con C il passaggio il microluogo] [una doppia periferica scala in elenco [ brina] leggere bave manualistica
da fanghi terapeutici poliglotti si sfidano a carte piane lungo il taglio netto tace prima uno] poi uno il seguente brillato 7 a.m.
IV
l’angolo mantiene le serrande] i vuoti casini plastici [per topi per piccoli cabotaggi oppure cabotare per [eccessiva prudenza esporsi
[al tempo era rischioso
in età tarda era] rischioso era] illuminata l’allegorico il print on demand ma] passano senza precedenti il bestiario come pratica quotidiana protocollo piano terra come] di
natura calda o fredda o] fallisce nello strategico il rimedio nel secolo delle aree bar dell’enciclopedia] che a rate conviene numero] verde] visione indagine puniscono] [ ad esempio
con la pena dell’interdetto] soprattutto per una questione di periplo il volo] [in assetto variabile [o di circuito] liquidazione infiammabile ferrochine al popolo
#experimentalWriting #italianExperimentalWriters #ItalianExperimentalWriting #LucaZanini #prosa #ProsaInProsa #scritturaDiRicerca #scrittureDiRicerca
kurt cobain meets william burroughs
Kurt Cobain was…
…first exposed to Burroughs’ work in high school, it heavily influenced Cobain’s writing when he started enforcing the Beat writer’s “cut-up” method. First introduced to Burroughs by artist Brion Gysin and inspired by a similar technique used by Dadaists by the 1920s, the collage-like approach mixes words and phrases that are pieced together, often creating juxtaposing text or narratives.
“My lyrics are total cut-up,” said Cobain.”I take lines from different poems that I’ve written. I build on a theme if I can, but sometimes I can’t even come up with an idea of what the song is about.”
read more here: https://americansongwriter.com/remember-when-kurt-cobain-collaborated-with-william-s-burroughs/ (=a piece by Tina Benitez-Eves) here:
#BrionGysin #cutUp #cutup #experimentalWriting #KurtCobain #TinaBenitezEves #WilliamBurroughs
so what am I writing for? to make a thing? perhaps that is (in the end) enough. so that there will be beautiful things … who I am even if I … no, even if I wore a mask, they’d still see through this shabby part born to return abnormally to the edge of destruction (a bottle episode : Hell wasn’t always a place of torment, it was just the place you went after you were done with your body, a place full of naked souls) … in what way is this substance at all suggestive of a liquid when the sealed quartz tube contains nothing but smoke & ash? Such flavors are subtle: I intend to go West — going West is beyond any doubt ,,, when I was young I could fly in my dreams, now I ride my horse on a boat in search of a portentous & mysterious prehistoric monster come back for a second underground nuclear test. Once I rode my horse Gonzo down the aisle of a 747 jumbo jet in search of a stairway to heaven. Below me the wild & distant seas boiled
from Space Pirates (a WIP):
The wild boys might have given up their amateur pursuits … every healthy wild boy loves roaming for friendship … but Kathy continued her elevations with twin purpose until she came to the gangplank leading to a great whale-spotting ship : its industrial-sized hold open to the sky above … waiting. A sailor scaling the mainmast shouted: It’s crazy to go to sea when it’s the end of the world! Kathy felt a mystical vibration invisible to human eyes. The ship was an ancient structure carved from oak, incongruous, out of place in this modern marina with boats made of glass and metal moored to concrete jetties with gleaming stainless steel chains. To the uninitiated eye/ear the musical fountains ,, centerpieces of iron-fenced gardens flanking the harbor evoked memories that needed washing in a psychic soap (she sniffed her armpits, all clear) : all this is not without meaning when cooled by blackness.
when hope is just another lie (do you believe that? macho macho man) … something the 80s sold to us : is it just me? as I walk down Poydras Street in New Orleans, I hear the chorus of “Boys of Summer” by Don Henley, not even a song I cared for particularly when … is it still popular? … and that feeling of being there or having been there that feels a little bit like joy : I hope … I buy me some of that, thanks. They meant it as a lie (to sell something), but it was a lie that was true. What they wanted was that we would be convinced … fool me once! … that hope is for pussinboots. Yeah, capitalism is bad boys of summer, but guess what! it hurt so good, don’t it? What I know is that it felt completely different to be alive then, and that feeling was real. I was happy. A lot of us were, we privileged middle-class white kids living in the suburbs … our garage bands, guitars and synthesizers, the robot sound of the future is now.
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#differx #experimentalwriting #palestine #kofi #asemic #news #abstract #glitch #theory #politics #italy
and speaking of hashtags (I'm still trying to figure this social media thing out) I'm going to start using #TheIrrealists to mark posts as part of public exchange of how to use #ExperimentalWriting to break up repressive social structures (in the mode of Kathy Acker #KathyAcker & William S. Burroughs #WilliamSBurroughs) ... and others
for more context see the essay by Kathleen Wheeler I posted earlier this week, here it is again
https://dalkeyarchive.substack.com/p/reading-kathy-acker
One of my experimental writing & publication projects is #NovaLetters , here's an example of a "deeper cut" which introduces Burroughs' concept of "coordinate points" mentioned in two of his cut-up novels
https://write.as/leadworth/coordinate-points
for fun I'm testing out applying terms from #DoctorWho to Burroughs' Nova concepts. A little for everyone.
a gunless tea / differx
dusie, 2007
https://slowforward.net/2014/04/19/an-excerpt-from-mgs-a-gunless-tea-dusie-chap-project-2007/
“after words: visual and experimental poetry in little mags and small presses, 1960-2025”: exhibition and book
After Words: Visual and Experimental Poetry in Little Magazines and Small Presses, 1960-2025, (catalogue and exhibition), Curated by Steve Clay and M. C. Kinniburgh of Granary Press, The Grolier Club, New York, NY, April 23 – July 26, 2025
[from garadinervi & Granary Books]
AFTER WORDS: VISUAL AND EXPERIMENTAL POETRY IN LITTLE MAGAZINES AND SMALL PRESSES, 1960–2025
Granary Books, 2025. Item #3913
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10.75 x 8.25 in., 232 pp. smyth-sewn in wrappers. Printed full color.
This book offers a visual and thematic journey through avant-garde, concrete, visual, and experimental poetics as they appeared in ephemeral little magazines and small press publications from the 1960s onward. This book serves as an exhibition catalog for After Words: Visual and Experimental Poetry in Little Magazines and Small Presses, 1960–2025 from April 23rd to July 26, 2025, at The Grolier Club exhibition in New York City. [«The exhibition presents a wide range of international works with approximately 150 publications, including Assembling, Kontexts, Poor.Old.Tired.Horse., blewointment, Rhinozeros, The Marrahwanna Quarterly, Granary Books, Something Else Press, Edition Hansjörg Mayer, Ou, and Stereo Headphones. Poets presented include Cecilia Vicuña, bpNichol, Johanna Drucker, Tom Phillips, Emily McVarish, d.a. levy, Mirtha Dermisache, and Philip Gallo among many others»]
Small presses include: 7 Flowers Press, Agentzia, Anabasis, Asylum’s Press, Ayizan Press, Beach Books Texts & Documents, Beau Geste Press, blewointmentpress, Burning Press, C Press, Chax Press, Coach House Press, Edition Hansjörg Mayer, Edizioni Geiger, Expanded Media Editions, Fleye Press, Goliard Press, Grabhorn-Hoyem, Granary Books, Druckwerk, Hawk’s Well Press, Heiner Friedrich, The Hermetic Press, Hermetic Gallery, John Martin, Joseph Melzer Verlag, Kickshaws, Kontexts Publications, Letter Edged in Black Press, Luna Bisonte Productions, Membrane Press, Milano: East 128, New Wilderness Foundation, Nietzsche’s Brolly, Nova News, Open Book, Openings Press, PANic Press, Phenomenon Press, Poltroon Press, Renegade Press, Roaring Fork Press, Scorribanda Productions, Seedorn Verlag, Seripress, Siglio Press, Station Hill, Tarasque Press, Tetrad Press, Visual Poetry Workshop National Poetry Society of London, Wild Hawthorn Press, and Xexoxial Editions.
Little magazines include: “before your very eyes!”, A: An Envelope Magazine of Visual Poetry, Abracadabra, Alcheringa, Anti-Isolation, Approches, AQ, Assembling, Blank Tape, Bulletin From Nothing, Cenizas, Diagonal Cero, E pod, Fruit Cup, Ganglia, Geiger, Gnaoua, Industrial Sabotage, Interstate, Journeyman, Kaldron, Klacto 23, Kontakte, Kontexts, Kroklok, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, Libellus, Life Begins with Love, Lines, Lost and Found Times, Lost Paper, Mini, New Wilderness Letter, Pages, Poor.Old.Tired.Horse., Rawz, Revue OU, Rhinozeros, Sammelband Futura, Schmuck, Shi Shi: Concrete & Visual Poetry, Signal, Soft Need, Sondern, Spanish Fleye, Stereo Headphones, Taproot Reviews, The Acts: The Shelf Life, The Difficulties, The Improbable, The Insect Trust Gazette, The Marrahwanna Quarterly, The San Francisco Earthquake, The Subtle Journal of Raw Coinage, Toothpick Lisbon & the Orcas Islands, Unarmed: Adventurous Poetry Journal, UNI/vers(;), WhiteWalls, Xerolage, and xtant.
#19602025 #3913 #7FlowersPress #AAnEnvelopeMagazineOfVisualPoetry #Abracadabra #AfterWords #AfterWordsVisualAndExperimentalPoetryInLittleMagazinesAndSmallPresses #Agentzia #Alcheringa #Anabasis #AntiIsolation #Approches #AQ #Assembling #AsylumSPress #avantGarde #AyizanPress #BeforeYourVeryEyes_ #BeachBooksTextsDocuments #BeauGestePress #BlankTape #blewointment #blewointmentpress #bpNichol #BulletinFromNothing #BurningPress #CPress #CeciliaVicuña #Cenizas #ChaxPress #CoachHousePress #concrete #dALevy #DiagonalCero #Druckwerk #EPod #EditionHansjörgMayer #EdizioniGeiger #EmilyMcVarish #exhibit #exhibition #exhibitionCatalog #ExpandedMediaEditions #experimentalWriting #FleyePress #FruitCup #Ganglia #Geiger #Gnaoua #GoliardPress #GrabhornHoyem #GranaryBooks #HawkSWellPress #HeinerFriedrich #HermeticGallery #IndustrialSabotage #Interstate #JohannaDrucker #JohnMartin #JosephMelzerVerlag #Journeyman #Kaldron #Kickshaws #Klacto23 #Kontakte #Kontexts #KontextsPublications #Kroklok #LANGUAGE #LetterEdgedInBlackPress #Libellus #LifeBeginsWithLove #lines #lostAndFoundTimes #LostPaper #LunaBisonteProductions #MCKinniburgh #materialiVerbovisivi #MembranePress #MilanoEast128 #Mini #MirthaDermisache #NewWildernessFoundation #NewWildernessLetter #NietzscheSBrolly #NovaNews #OpenBook #OpeningsPress #Ou #Pages #PANicPress #PhenomenonPress #PhilipGallo #poets #PoltroonPress #PoorOldTiredHorse_ #Rawz #RenegadePress #RevueOU #Rhinozeros #riviste #RoaringForkPress #SammelbandFutura #Schmuck #ScorribandaProductions #SeedornVerlag #Seripress #ShiShiConcreteVisualPoetry #SiglioPress #Signal #smallPresses #SoftNeed #SomethingElsePress #Sondern #SpanishFleye #StationHill #StereoHeadphones #SteveClay #TaprootReviews #TarasquePress #TetradPress #TheActsTheShelfLife #TheDifficulties #TheGrolierClub #TheHermeticPress #TheImprobable #TheInsectTrustGazette #TheMarrahwannaQuarterly #TheSanFranciscoEarthquake #TheSubtleJournalOfRawCoinage #TomPhillips #ToothpickLisbonTheOrcasIslands #UnarmedAdventurousPoetryJournal #UNIVers_ #vispo #visualPoetry #VisualPoetryWorkshopNationalPoetrySocietyOfLondon #WhiteWalls #WildHawthornPress #xerolage #XexoxialEditions #xtant #zines
'It doesn’t matter what transformative anticapitalist, antiracist or antiheteropatriarchal ideas we profess in the content of our work. They can be inspired by Karl Marx, Audre Lorde, Gilles Deleuze, María Lugones, Walter Mignolo, Angela Davis, bell hooks, Alain Badiou, Donna Haraway, Silvia Federici, Byung-Chul Han, Benjamin Bratton … whoever. But when it comes to our knowledge-making practices – the taken-for-granted forms our writing takes, the habitual ways in which we disseminate and monetise it, the associated upholding of notions of individualism, human rights and property rights – we still have to operate according to what is actually a Euro-Western, modernist and middle-class, straight white male model of the humanities researcher.'
- Masked Media: What It Means to Be Human in the Age of Artificial Creative Intelligence:
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/masked-media/
#newmedia
#academicpublishing
#experimentalwriting
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#copyright #OA
Latest title in Open Humanities Press's MEDIA : ART : WRITE : NOW series:
Masked Media: What It Means to Be Human in the Age of Artificial Creative Intelligence by Gary Hall
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/masked-media/
Open access
(= it can be downloaded for free)
If we want a socially and environmentally just future, do we need a radical new theory of change – or to radically change theory? It’s this question Gary Hall and his collaborators have been addressing for over 20 years with experimental projects such as OHP, Liquid and Living Books, and the Culture-Led Re-Commoning of Cities. Unsettling received ideas of the author and book, originality and copyright, real and artificial intelligence, these theorist-mediums test the ‘non-modernist-liberal’ modes of creating and sharing knowledge enabled by media technologies, from writing and print, through photography and video, to computers and GenAI.
#newmedia #academicpublishing #experimentalwriting #openai #genai #art #posthumanism #copyright
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Announcing the latest title in Open Humanities Press's MEDIA : ART : WRITE : NOW series:
Masked Media: What It Means to Be Human in the Age of Artificial Creative Intelligence by Gary Hall.
Available open access - to be downloaded for free:
http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/masked-media/
If we want a socially and environmentally just future, do we need a radical new theory of change – or to radically change theory? Unsettling received ideas of the author and the book, originality and copyright, real and artificial intelligence, Masked Media tests ‘non-modernist-liberal’ modes of creating and sharing knowledge enabled by media technologies, from writing through to GenAI. Thinking outside the black box that renders Euro-Western knowledge-making practices invisible – keeping the human ontologically separate from the nonhuman – it shows there’s no such thing as the human, the nonhuman already being in(the)human.
#newmedia #academicpublishing #experimentalwriting #humanities
#philosophy #ai #openai #genai
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