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- Title
Life in a Code - Mikael Brygger's "NASDAQ 30.5.2010" as Found Poetry.
- Authors
Laihinen, Miikka
- Abstract
The extensive experimental poem "NASDAQ 30.5.2010", by Mikael Brygger (b. 1975), draws its textual material from the practices of the stock exchange. The nine-and-a-half-page poem uses so-called ticker symbols denominating certain stocks of certain companies as a means of showing rather than narrating, depicting or representing the contemporary world. Comprising over 3,000 strings of capitalised strings of letters, organised in a chaotic alphabetical order, Brygger's text materialises a virtual semiotic entity into a form that can be experienced by a reader. In this essay Brygger's poem is read as a form of found poetry, an expression appropriating its material from a preexisting source. The article approaches Brygger's list of ticker symbols as a-signifying subjectivation and a process of deterritorialisation. Brygger's appropriating expression breathes life into a daunting, code-like stream of stock market structures.
- Subjects
NASDAQ composite index; TICKER symbols; MARKET design &; structure (Economics); STOCK companies; MATERIAL culture; STOCKS (Finance)
- Publication
Avant-Garde Critical Studies, 2022, Vol 41, p227
- ISSN
1879-6419
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1163/9789004515956_016