Sunday, October 29, 2017

Critical Nexus Hinges


The site Web Citation .org makes possible what I call critical nexus hinges; series of web-pages, connected in the interstitial way customary on the site, which form a way/manner for theory to evolve from critical literary practice (praxis). These two As/Is pages, now preserved on Web Cite, Notes: Cheltenham Elegies and When You Bit... sonnets, and Notes: More on When You Bit..., hinge the original critical texts, which span 2014 to 2017, to the two new Otoliths pages from '17, now preserved on Web Cite. This has the effect of making the critical task of text consolidation both simpler and smoother than what we tend to see online. It also lends a graceful sense of the aesthetic to critical tasks which might otherwise seem dry.

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