Nobody’s Business: Twenty-First Century Avant-Garde Poetics

Contents

vii Contents Preface: What Now? ix 1. In Praise of Obsolescence 1 2. New Consensus Poetics and the Avant-Garde 27 3. Mechanical Form and Avant-Garde Aesthetics 49 4. Flarf, Folly, and George W. Bush 88 5. Andrea Brady’s Peculiar Dissidence 121 6. Danny Snelson’s Disco Operating System 161 Acknowledgments 195 Notes 197 Index 215 ...