Bad Writing

Author  Travis Jeppesen
Bad Writing

Essays that forge a path to a truly radical “bad” modernism in art and literature.

What, exactly, constitutes the “bad”? Can one consciously produce in the name of “badness,” or is badness a value judgment that comes after the fact, from an Other? How does one begin to assign aesthetic value to an object? If one is to accept the “bad” as “good,” or to find aesthetic value in badness, then when does the bad succeed and when does it fail? If, pace Beckett, we are to embrace failure as an inevitable goal, then isn't it necessary to invent a new mode of criticism that accommodates this aesthetic reality?

Travis Jeppesen's Bad Writing offers a series of interconnected essays, many of…

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September 17, 2019
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