"What Stéphane Mallarmé envisioned in "Un coup de dés" (A throw of the dice), 1897, became an integral part of avant-garde practice in the 20th century: To expose language as a convention that is there to discipline individuals and subject them to a regulated system of capitalist exploitability. In contrast, language should be subjected to a revision and reclaim its imaginative freedom by wresting it from its purposive purpose. In this comprehensive publication, art theorists and artists reflect on the poetic and subversive potential of language."

Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König