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Such workers are in a curious position. They are not owners—in other words, they are not entitled to the profits from the firm—but they are proxies, often, for the will of the owners. Indeed, a technical writer seems a perfect example of the double-edged nature of Taylorization for white-collar wor…

[...] If “The Instruction Manual” is a set of instructions, an ars poetica—and Ashbery wrote many of these—it is one for a poet that never emerged, a how-to that Ashbery never took up. It is a set of instructions made to be disobeyed, perhaps because it makes his poetry all too simple and diagramma…

there was no need for the US state or the CIA to distort or falsely represent this art, since the abstract expressionists and their critical epigones

For instance, in his prose poem “Meditations in an Emergency,” after submitting various lyric gestures and attitudes to his bathetic reconstructions

O’Hara’s use of exclamation and apostrophe, performing an attitude toward proper names, toward celebrity and brand, anticipates particularly well the new affective grammars and styles of interactive service work as they have developed in the half century since the publication of Lunch Poems. O’Hara…