Project Statement

by J. Drucker

From Now continues the strain of my work that processes news and events through a locus of subjectivity as an organizing lens or principle. The project makes use of snippets, fragments, bits and pieces of different kinds of writing projects, most deliberately granting each autonomoy within a whole. The multiple spheres of language discourse each register in the structure and compositional mode, as well as the texture and graphic presentation of language. The "now" this is "from" is the lived and real, monstrous, grotesque, supersaturated with the noise of mass mediated culture, and yet, it is also the now of being, always, aware and present, in the midst of all that stimulation, what we are. Awareness shoots through the full world, and returns as a projection of self, that set of bounding and defining specifics that delineate a place as a profile, position, from which the world is made. So the curious codependent systems work. And language? Endlessly polyphonic, heteroglossic, multifaceted, varied in tone and vocabulary, look and sound, image and texture.

From Now

Johanna Drucker

Agents

Johanna Drucker

type: initiating

role:
author
designer

nationality:
born: United States
active: United States
citizenship: United States

dates:
birth: 1952-05-30

Kyle Schlesinger Cuneiform Press

type: initiating

role:
publisher
printer

location: Buffalo, New York

Publication Information

publisher: Cuneiform Press

dates:
publication: 2005-00-00

publication history: A single edition of this work was produced, this one. [J. Drucker]

Aesthetic Profile

movement:
unknown

subject:
artists' books (LCSH)

content form:
experimental text (local)

publication tradition:
artists' book (local)

inspiration: Tabloids, television, radio, the news, the world. [J. Drucker]

related works: The Current Line, Just As, Damaged Spring, are all in this vein. [J. Drucker]

other influences: Jerome McGann and Powys. [J. Drucker]

community: other Poets, always, here and distant. [J. Drucker]