"Wild captioning"
 

Hejinian discusses something she calls "wild captioning" emerging form "contemporary leftist protest actions"
 
wild captioning "eschews reification, evades capture, and escapes form; it performs appropriation sardonically, all the while resisting it" (250)

> from Lyn Hejinian's Allegorical Moments: Call to the Everyday (2023)

> tagged with #language, #appropriation, #activism, #resistance

> created Mar 13, 2025 at 7:57:54 AM


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