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"Nice werk if you can get it(sic)" is a series of found (and detourned) texts from my days as a term paper artist, interspersed with fictive assignments written by Davis (a real-life college professor at la swank Lake Forest College).
Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2009
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It's weird, they've pretty much brought Superman back to being the silver age character with the super-brain and Supergirl and Krypto and being far from the last of his race and obliterating all vestiges of Byrne's Krypton which I still find visually stunning and I now feel like all those Silver Age fans who felt everything they loved had been detourned.
Top 100 Comic Book Runs #80-76 | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
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Many paintings in Modifications have this same working method, works of bad taste “detourned” by Baj.
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Many paintings in Modifications have this same working method, works of bad taste “detourned” by Baj.
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I said I'd enjoyed his last tv show, meaning not the real-life Doctor Who but the shifting detourned works that had been presented to my mind as part of the real-life surroundings but which had obviously all been a show in themselves, I suppose.
Celebrity dreams imomus 2005
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In this period both Warhol and Burroughs manipulated and detourned mass media images for artistic and political effect.
Comments for RealityStudio Dan Lower 2010
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Their live show was a raucous circus of detourned classic rock, electronic distortion, strobe lights, go-go dancers, pyromania, and film footage of car crashes, venomous-reptile battles, and penis reconstruction surgery, and they invariably concluded with a rousing version of R. E.M.'s "The One I Love."
Chicago Reader 2010
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Sat with my brother in my dream, watching a large central screen display of a shaggy imomus amongst others, not sure quite what he was talking about or doing because I was looking at the rest of the surroundings, consisting of upside down, backwards, detourned images fading now as I focus my mind's eye on them which changed constantly even though they weren't on the TV screen but supposedly around us forming part of an a exhibit.
Celebrity dreams imomus 2005
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By this time most everyone in the room must have been convinced, or nearly so, of the panel’s principal argument—namely, that Language Poetry as we know it was severely perhaps "helpfully" is a better adverb detourned, rearranged, and basically had its ass handed to it by the gadfly gay voices of the original New Narrative movement, Bob Gluck, Bruce Boone, and the late Steve Abbott.
Kevin Killian: What I Saw at the Orono Conference 2008, part 21 Dodie Bellamy 2008
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By this time most everyone in the room must have been convinced, or nearly so, of the panel’s principal argument—namely, that Language Poetry as we know it was severely perhaps "helpfully" is a better adverb detourned, rearranged, and basically had its ass handed to it by the gadfly gay voices of the original New Narrative movement, Bob Gluck, Bruce Boone, and the late Steve Abbott.
Archive 2008-10-01 Dodie Bellamy 2008
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