A Collaborative Diagram

matthews AND allen

DIAGRAM FOR A COLLABORATIVE GAME
Players: matthews and allen.
Each player will select a word from the preceding text.
The word will be placed under erasure.
The selected word will be used to generate a dialogic response.
The response may be generated from any arbitrary source.



[1] Deleuze, Gilles. Foucault (London: Continuum, 2006), 30.

[2] Roget, Peter. Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases (London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1932), 85.

[3] Thatcher, Margaret. Conservative Party Speech (October 10 1980)

[4] Hartley, Florence. The Ladies’ Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness: A Complete Handbook for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society (Boston: Lee & Shepard Publishers, 1872), 11-12.

[5] urbandictionary.com [accessed 28.01.2017]

[6] Goldsmith, Kenneth. Wasting Time on the Internet (New York: Harper Perennial, 2016), 12.

[7] Carroll, Lewis. The Hunting of the Snark (London: Tate Publishing, 2011), 6.

[8] Gardner, Colin. Mind the Gap www.simonosullivan.net/reviews/production-gardner-review.pdf [accessed 01.02.2017]

[9] Burroughs, William. The Electronic Revolution (ubuclassics, ubu.com [accessed 02.02.2017], 2005), 33-34.

[10] Ayto, John. Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 367.

[10] Ayto, John. Oxford Dictionary of English Idioms, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 367.

[11] Federman, Raymond. Critification: Postmodern Essays (New York: State University of New York Press 1993), 51.

[12] Blackwell, Alan. Thinking with Diagrams, (Dordrecht: Springer: 2001), 128.

[13] The Big Bang Theory, The Bat Jar Conjecture, series 1, episode 13 (Chuck Lorre Productions).


matthews AND allen are collaborative artists. Their practice is one of critical disruption, performance writing and a ludic approach to language.

They are converse and they converse, they are deliberate and they deliberate, they are appropriate and they appropriate, they are alternate and they alternate, they are contrary and contrary, they are content and content; they are all, they are both, they are many and they are double.