Dispositions, 2002
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This work reminds me of the best of Karl Kraus, Benjamin, what Baudrillard might have been. It is organized by readings from a Garmin Etrex GPS device; each section is headed by readouts representing the (primal) scene of its writing/birth. The readouts include date, time, position (including altitude), and accuracy. Negative K, might be in Manhattan. The sections are intricate and terse, turning around aesthetic, cultural, and sociological aporia.There are considerations of Kathy Acker, the Met, unfinished books, cities and airports, codework, epistemology and punctuation. This is literally a must-read for anyone interested in globality and its incursions. -- Alan Sondheim, author of The Wayward Excerpt |