”Unlike Language texts, the primary drive of the texts here are not to question the authority or legitimacy of language as an inherited social construct, rather there is a distinct trajectory, a kind of plot even within the plotlessness typical of experimental texts, and a presumed acceptance of the teleology of grammar and words, namely, that their function is to refer and therefore convey some kind of meaning beyond themselves. To a certain degree these texts seem to be a reaction to the non-referentiality of Language texts, by making referentiality the propulsive and cohering principle, in terms of the elements’ reliance on one another, refering to one another, for their own identity.”
Den där romanen av kramdjuret Malte ska ju tydligen dramatisera våra föreställningar om nätverket. Mer än så kan jag inte säga om det. Men det här blogginlägget är kanske nyttigt att läsa – om man envisas med att vara intresserad av romanen ”av idag” - och behandlar nätverket som drivande idé bakom ett par indie-lit hittar av engelskspråkigt snitt.
