The PoPedology of an Ambient Language

The PoPedology of an Ambient Language

Edwin Torres

2007

Atleos

 
“Can poetry matter? Torres’s riposte riffs on poetry as antimatter: its communicative potential is inseparable from its capacity to ‘instigate a NEW failure of listening.’ For Torres, communicative interference is a precondition for meaning and the social body is always a little antisocial. Thus, only an ambient language — both funny and fractious — can score its fitful movements. PoPedology is a form of embodied epistemology, working through the glitches in the meaning-making machine.” — Urayoán Noel, Bomb