Verna: “I’ve always loved to read, consider myself relatively intelligent and enjoy skillful use of words. I also really enjoy Artforum magazine; for your 10 bucks you get a really wonderful, fat treasure chest of interesting art, reviews and articles.“Sometimes though, you run across a piece of prose that is so dense and convoluted you think the writer is trying to channel Wittgenstein. Here’s a quote from page 111 of the March 2007 issue:
“There is by now a core triennial constituency very au fait with post-colonial identity discourse and a wide range of cultural specifics, for whom the cluster of cultures in the Asia-Pacific region is no longer a melange of irreconcilable otherness but a semi-negotiable matrix of similarity and difference from which authentic cross-cultural appreciation might begin to develop.”
“You know, I don’t mean to personally slam the author of this deathless prose, and I realize it’s out of context (the article as a whole, about the 5th Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, actually makes sense) but after reading it I feel like starting an Amnesty for English foundation to prevent the further torture of the language.”
linda fetch 
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