Friday, December 10, 2021

Useless Writing, by jim leftwich -- publication history

Useless Writing

by jim leftwich


publication history


2001​​

included in Things Rescued From Eternal Nonexistence, a series of approximately 25 unique booklets I circulated among my friends and associates in the eternal network

2003

Another South, edited by Bill Lavender (printed in the "Contributors / Poetics" section at the end of the book, on page 269).

2007

published/posted by Slobodan Skerovic at Project Rastko, the online presence of Signalism.

2014

I created the Useless Writing Facebook Group on April 7 and posted the essay there.

August 2014

Useless Preface to a Romantasemic Writing, a mash-up by Olchar Lindsann of two manifestos protesting the hegemony of the idea of Utility, written a century and a half apart: Théophile Gautier’s 1835 Preface to Mlle. de Maupin, and Jim Leftwich’s 2001 Useless Writing manifesto.