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Alejandro Crawford

Sophia Le Fraga

Blunt Objects is a collaboration between Sophia Le Fraga, Shiv Kotecha, and Alejandro Crawford, produced for Divya Victor’s Jacket2 feature devoted to plural and global Conceptual writing and other cultural productions.

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About this feature

This feature on Conceptual writing collects thirty-five responses from a wide group of practitioners and critics of diverse method, intent, and position, who responded to Divya Victor’s 2015 call for writing: 1) To expand the field of critical influences and frame its discourses through the lenses of anti-imperialism, postcolonialism, spirituality studies, disability studies, ecocriticism, and critical race theory; 2) To create records of aesthetic and political genealogies which resonate as true and lived for practitioners; and 3) To articulate the critique of dominant and hegemonic genealogies or histories associated with contemporary conceptual and conceptual-like writing.

Divya Victor

Current status
Chris Alexander
Of theology, forms, and absence
Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé
Repetition and revulsion
Douglas Kearney
‘Swims’
Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
Gossip as method
Holly Pester
Hysterically Real
Jake Reber
Notes toward an anthropological process
Kristen Gallagher
Concept
Laura Goldstein
'Corpaphysics, Conceptualism, and dualism
Matthew Landis
A pale Usher
Nicolas Mugavero
On 'Area Sneaks'
Rita Gonzalez
한 :: Concept : Spirit : Break
Sueyeun Juliette Lee
The blackness of Holly Melgard's 'Black Friday'
Anna Vitale
Stanisław Dróżdż
Brian Reed
Angelo Suárez’s ‘Philippine English’ and the language of Conceptual writing
Caleb Beckwith
Messing with the beholder
Catherine Wagner
On dakim's '34 Fragments'
J. Gordon Faylor
On Weiner, Acconci, Perreault, and Graham
Kaplan Harris
Software as lip service
Logan K. Young
'Antígona González'
Marco Antonio Huerta
Disaster and revival
Patrick F. Durgin
Critical color theory
RE Katz
Nice Dream?
Ryan Sheldon
Blunt Objects
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Little-Richards
Shiv Kotecha
Imagine Brown
Sophia Le Fraga
Manifest
Angela Genusa
'I'M A REAL ARTIST'
Steve Giasson
Selections from 'The Beginning'
Feliz Lucia Molina
An affective response
Aaron Apps
Appropriative resistance
Angelo V. Suárez
A note on terrapoetics
Daniel Falb
Empathetics: A somatic approach
JH Phrydas
On settler conceptualism
Michael Nardone
Ready-made shirts, ready-made readings
T'ai Smith

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Steve Giasson

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