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[Intermediate Goods. Word processing.]
In a world where everything is text because everything is code, there are no more works, only intermediate goods, precast raw material. Images, films, sounds, words—in the digital world, everything is open to being remade, transcoded, and (re)processed. Hannes Bajohr’s collection of poems proves that recycled texts can bring forth subtle poems. Inspired by the modernist avant-garde, he makes use of the technologies of the 21st century: with the help of algorithms, he fragments, transcribes, and reorganizes Kafka’s novels, protocols from the German Bundestag, or climate protection reports, among others. As a result, his poems offer a completely different perspective on reception and authorship in the age of digitalization.