"The first self conscious journal of what would become known as language writing"

Barrett Watten and Robert Genier

Iowa City and San Francisco 1971-1982

Watten -- "Total Syntax"

Grenier -- Sentences

the basic concept of elements in space and syntax in sequence, spacial -- art as relative and continuous -- I keep painting until i've painted myself out of the picture --anarchy of production -- democratic relations between reader and writer

point of unrest -- the work refuses closure -- no periods or capitalization "Might be the only constitution possible for the republic in which one would want to live" "Not the work of objectified (as a 'point of rest'), but language brought to light through the failure of object (a 'point of unrest') -- dismandle aparatus to release the word -- structure collapses into words --