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QOQQOON (cocoon) is a webzine for writing by artists. We also republish hard-to-find pdfs online. In our current issue (#4), we are thinking about compromise. Submissions are welcome. Edited by Leigh Tennant and Steven Cottingham. Published on unceded, traditional, and ancestral Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh territories (Vancouver, Canada) since 2018. ISSN 2563-4364.

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QOQQOON/Metaphoric Exchange and the Discursive Commodity
QOQQOON/Metaphoric Exchange and the Discursive CommodityMetaphoric Exchange and the Discursive Commodity
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QOQQOON/Metaphoric Exchange and the Discursive Commodity

1. Supplication and Speculation Because art after conceptualism comprises a mode of production wherein an artwork is nominated rather than crafted—that is, it is…
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QOQQOON/The So-called “Formal Method”
QOQQOON/The So-called “Formal Method”The So-called “Formal Method”
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01/01/1923
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QOQQOON/The So-called “Formal Method”

“Opayaz” and its so-called “formal method” has become the bug-bear to the literary pontiffs and priestling dabblers in literature. This imprudent attempt to approach…
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QOQQOON/Art and Entropy
QOQQOON/Art and EntropyArt and Entropy
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QOQQOON/Art and Entropy

The only thing more arbitrary than an ending is a beginning. It is already well-argued that artworks open fields of conceptual possibility, becoming closed…