December 10, 2012
Diagonal Semantics and the Lacine: On Erica Baum’s Dog Ear
The first thing I noticed about Eric Baum’s Dog Ear—a series of cropped, close-up photographs of dog-eared pages of unidentified books—was not the texts in the almost-too-sharp images but the […]
November 6, 2012
The Weight of What’s Left [Out]: Six Contemporary Erasurists on Their Craft
The choice to use erasure as a poetic technique is not, strictly speaking, a new one: in 1969, for instance, Marcel Broodthaers erased Mallarmé’s Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le […]
October 25, 2012
Politics, erasure, and a ‘sometimes genuine music’
The question I want to ask is whether or not the act of erasure produces another voice—if the process of effacing (or defacing, as such may be a more accurate […]