Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Preface xi
5. “I, too, wondered …”: An Introduction to Conceptual Writing after Conceptual Art 1
6. The Conceptualist Turn: Wittgenstein and the New Writing 27
7. From “The Fate of Echo” (Introduction to Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing) 41
8. Was Ist Los 54
9. Echo Ήχώ 63
10. Sharon Hayes and Most People 73
11. Keynote: What Do We Mean by Performance Writing? 86
12. Rescuing the Past: Repetition and Re-enactment in Jeremy Deller, Andrea Geyer, and Sharon Hayes 93
13. From Notes on Conceptualisms 108
14. The Melancholy of Conceptualism 117
15. Untimely Models 129
16. Indifferent Voices 135
17. A Week of Blogs for the Poetry Foundation 141
18. Give Them What They Want: Populist Rhetoric in Conceptual Art and Writing 152
19. To Teach and Delight – A Few Precedents for an Art of Instruction 168
20. Semantic Analysis: The Art of Parsing Found Text 184
21. Conceptual Computing and Digital Writing 197
22. Poetry without Poets 211
23. Documents from “True Mirror” 221
24. From Materiality to Dematerialization and Back: Conceptual Writing in a Digital Age 233
25. Little Bastard: The Invention and Introduction of a New Word 243
26. What Was Conceptual Writing? 260
27. The Bioinformatic Sublime: The Life of Data and the Data of Life in Conceptual Writing 270
28. Two Dots over a Vowel 290
29. Like in Valencia: On Translating Equivalence 303
30. Russian Lessons for Conceptual Writing 316
31. Reading as Art 335
32. Ambivalence of the Grid 342
33. The Concrete, the Conceptual, and the Galáxias 358
34. N.B. 373
35. Plagiarism: A Response to Thomas Fink 381
36. Bibliography 387
37. Index 409