HT Jarrod Fowler. Lawrence Giffin on Conceptual Writing seems to be saying a lot of things that I've been saying about constructivism recently. It sounds like a manifesto for an object-oriented practice:
we must dump the idea that language is material, which harbors conceptual writing’s more misogynist tendencies moreso than does its so-called totalizing impulse, and instead focus our efforts on constructing a physics of language, one that would not theorize language as inert matter activated by the pure agency of the concept, but one that would begin with the agency of language as well as the resistance of language to the concept, so that the word, the logos itself, is broken into the irreducible duality of agent and object. This would reverse the demotion of the subject inherited from language writing, and instead demote consciousness to one object among an infinity of other subject-objects, each with an equivalent ontological priority.
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Conceptual writing is doomed to follow its own strangulating logic; it insists that all writing is conceptual, but it can accomplish this declaration only by maintaining the division between itself and normative writing, therefore subverting its own claims.
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For conceptual writing, everything dissolves into its relations, there are only networks.