‘Conceptual writing is comparable to a recent Chinese business enterprise’
Magistrale Adorno-pastiche van Rob Halpern slaat het Conceptuele Schrijven knock-out:
In the public mind today, Conceptual Writing presents itself as a dazzling reformer, perhaps even as the inventor of a revolutionary system, if not a new orthodoxy, with grudging respect, some even suggest that Conceptual Writing has prepared the wa for other new things, a way, it’s true, which Conceptual Writing itself may ahve no real desire to travel. But this initial claim is linked by implication to the claim that Conceptual Writing is a failure and has quickly become obsolete in light of current social movements, which themselves realize in practice what Conceptual Writing must persistently disavow.
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[…] is hier ook sprake van een dieper, institutioneel probleem: eerder rekende Rob Halpern in een magistrale Adorno-pastiche al af met de poëzie van Goldsmith, die volgens hem volkomen […]