Review of Notes on Conceptualisms by Vanessa Place and Robert Fitterman (Ugly
Duckling Presse)
By Maxwell
Clark
'Topographical Map', by Maxwell Clark (acrylic on canvass)
I can barely
bring myself to read this mucky tome of yet such slimness. What either is being
induced or deduced rigorously or affectively in this work? I cannot really
tell. It’s a very weak piece of writing.
“Words are objects.” (pg. 14)
Ok. Words
are also expressions, aka the intercourse between subjective “faces” or unique
individuals, i.e. non-objective, or even the ground of all posterior objectivity.
“All conceptual writing is
allegorical writing.” (pg. 15)
Ok. Is that an allegorical sentence? Is its secret, hidden meaning actually that its authors are weak and unpersuasive rhetoricians? Why bring in allegory in such a cursory and disjointed, much less strongly argued in some salient sense, kind of way?
Ok. Is that an allegorical sentence? Is its secret, hidden meaning actually that its authors are weak and unpersuasive rhetoricians? Why bring in allegory in such a cursory and disjointed, much less strongly argued in some salient sense, kind of way?
I will not further bore and mistreat
my audience with quotations from this work (and please forgive the venom of
that remark, although I refuse to erase it). Nor will I bore them with any more
of my justly spilt bile. Please forgive, excuse, my apologies. Adios. Selah.
