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lettrism
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lettrism
a technique of poetic composition originated by Isidore Isou, characterized by strange or meaningless arrangements of letters.
See also: Verse


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8) Such strategies employed by the Lettrists and Situationists in the 1950s and 1960s are evident in the spirit of the strategies that contemporary digital artists use to remember, and galvanize, the body toward political action.
Buren, for his part, was well versed in the history and strategies of the Lettrist and Situationist internationals, rewarding his early interest in the theory of spectacle and detournement later with the acquisition of one of the most comprehensive collections of Situationist texts and documents, and even adorning the entrance to his living room with Debord and Asger Jorn's collaborative painting calling for the immediate abolition of alienated labor.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The practice of derive, or "drifting"--which originated with the Lettrist International figure Ivan Chtcheglov and later developed by Situationist guru Guy Debord--was initially intended as an antidote to normative forces in modern society, encouraging people to explore their own environment without preconceptions.
 
 
 
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