DIARY/ HOW TO IMPROVE THE WORLD (YOU WILL ONLY MAKE MATTERS WORSE) CONTINUED PART THREE (1967)

The third in Cages series of Diary essays (the other parts were published in different contexts), defined broadly as collections of thoughts that develop out of working and being alive. The text is formally and discursively roving: its margins, typeface, and color undergo continuous alteration by chance methods as Cage contemplates computers, Erik Satie/ life on the road with Merce Cunnin gham/ death/ encounters with Mies van der Rohe, Duchamp, and Marshall McLuhan/ books/ cold remedies, and more. Above all, Diary seem s to confront ...[Llegir més]