via http://briandettmer.com/

see reviews/interviews.

on the Resurrectionists — discovered or imagined by Luc Sante, whose blog this is — "a shadowy group devoted to finding the poetry hidden in the works of the most prosaic authors. The members never made their identities public, although rumors flew during their heyday, from the late 1950s to the mid-'70s." Another gang of Resurrectionists was 19th century Scottish grave robbers.

2001 ¶ found amongst these : http://artasiamerica.org/search/by/materials/300263751 (worth a look)

2006

Cabinet 17 "The Average" Fall 2004 ¶ reorders words within articles, headlines, alphabetically : "For virtually every witty turn of phrase or vivid description that gets detourned by the strokes of the artist’s X-acto blade, some other little bit of poetry emerges,"

courtesy Nicole Bloomfield

NY Times rumination on mashup culture, beginning with response to David Shields his Reality Hunger, moving through orher recent/forthcoming books on and around the topic, and concluding with Jaron Lanier's jeremiad-like worries about a culture that is "eating its own seed stock." (21 March 2010)