Cage vs. discourse
 

Cage's poetry work--described by Kienle here as "chance-based nonsyntactical arrangements of letters and words"--seen a certain way, could be viewed "as a counter-attack to the 'incitements to discourse' that Foucault and Deleuze respectively associated with a new form of power" (Raymond Blake Stricklin's argument)
 
Cage, 1975: "[W]e need a society in which communication is not practiced, in which words become nonsense as they do between lovers"

> from Miriam Kienle's Queer Networks: Ray Johnson's Correspondence Art (2023)

> tagged with #power, #chance, #poetry, #language, #communication

> created June 24, 2026 at 12:54:58 PM


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