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SIGNAGE

by Alan Davies

"One reads Alan Davies' critical work as one reads Wittgenstein. Isit poetry or is it prose? Often one simply will not make thedistinction, for the writing is distinguished as much by itsintellectual intensity as by its purity of style. And the acts ofintelligence are at all times incarnated as stylistic acts." - Jerome J. McGann

"All criticism, if it is to get beyond the quibbling positioning ofmost expository writing, must aspire to fiction. The only truearguments are the ones we cannot make, and in making createuniverses we can begin to inhabit. In Signage, Alan Daviessingularly fulfills such possibilities for writing. His prose ofdesire gives forth." - Charles Bernstein

"Structure neither acts, nor is it an active, nor does it receive. It is a delicate stubborn effect produced under the permanence ofthe relations. It is not related; it stands.How does it mean? Structure exerts power, which it cannot withdraw. Structure has no poles, no extremes, no ends. Its balance is heldbetween its side.

I, a private and concrete individual, hate structures, and if I reveal Form in my way, it is in order to defend myself." - from SIGNAGE