15th May Friday 2-4pm

SE Barnet
In praise of plagiarism: a borrower’s tour of various author’s works on reading and writing where
The Ecstasy of Influence. A plagiarism by Jonathan Lethem is the point of derivation.

In the spirit of Jonathan Lethem’s essay The Ecstasy of Influence: A plagiarism, I propose a patchwork reading of various authors on reading and writing. The work can incorporate the performance of both reading and writing. This work can incorporate the performance of both reading out loud and writing/transcribing in situ.

Texts included might range from Lethem’s essay itself to Kenneth Goldsmith’s Uncreative Writing, to Helene Cixous’s Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing, to Yve Lomax’ Writing the Image, to Eric Gill’s An Essay on Typography, among others. We will use ‘reading’ and ‘writing’ as guiding terminology in constructing our own live essay.

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