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"Up Against the Screen Mother Fuckers" by Justin Katko

February 15, 2012
Designed to be presented in The Cave at Brown University (an immersive virtual reality space) this manifesto poem is presented here in a greatly diminished form: a small Quicktime window without a fullscreen option. As such, rather than being a full on assault on the senses and aesthetic sensibilities, it seem like an harmless little annoyance, which is a pity, because it is a fascinating work. When you look at the images keep in mind that this was created with a text editor, because you are looking a letterforms atomized beyond what even Lettrisme aimed for. Listen to the poem’s rhythms and mixture of poetic, manifesto, and technical language, punctuated by a series of “mother fuckers” spoken with a gusto worthy of Samuel Jackson in Pulp Fiction.

Featured in Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2.  
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Entry by: Leonardo Flores
Categories: 2008, aural, cave, CAVE writing text editor, e-poetry, Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 2, Entries, kinetic, poetry, Quicktime, scheduled, 2008

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