Random questions of the day, month, season, year, we'll see...

Does Flarf contact a new range of “content” or perhaps represent, rather, an altered approach to content?

Does Flarf engage a new range of subject matters, particularly subject matters that are neither concerned with the media of poetry, language, and representation nor concerned principally with “theory” and “criticism” and “aesthetics” and such?

Is a typical Flarf poetry “about” language (for instance, prepositions, nouns, taking one to know one, and all), or is Flarf “all about” POETRY (particularly that which has been institutionalized as the primary language game played for careers in Academia), which is to say, not exactly THE WORLD that most of us outside of the academy live in but the one that most seriously entertains the last of the BOTH priviledged and stubborn among us who keep alive, for ourselves, such “high art” and what continually threatens to become an artifact as world population growth makes such “diversion” more and more irrelevant to succeeding generations radically confronted with new realities of mere survival?

If Lang Po could be said to eschew traditional subject matters in a broad effort to expand both the means to accessing content and the territories of relevant, substantial meaning needing to be legitimated, does Flarf mostly explore some of the new territories that predecessors, and the Internet, opened up, or does Flarf represent a healthy, perhaps overdue restriction or narrowing of focus that in some way newly discovers “the World” that has perhaps been invisible as we’ve so obsessively investigated the (metaphoric and metonymic) glasses, microscopes, telescopes, and other tools we use for accessing, exploring, interpreting, creating such a so-called world?

Yes, it is true that none of these questions might apply to Flarf at all, but I am interested in asking them regardless of their relevance to Flarf. They are at least as important to me as learning what Flarf is and celebrating Flarf’s on-going contribution to the advancement of thot and existence.