{"id":4734,"date":"2011-07-08T12:00:14","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T11:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/?p=4734"},"modified":"2011-07-08T12:00:14","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T11:00:14","slug":"diffusion-archive-highlight-pharmaceutical-cubes-by-kenneth-goldsmith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/2011\/07\/diffusion-archive-highlight-pharmaceutical-cubes-by-kenneth-goldsmith\/","title":{"rendered":"Diffusion Archive Highlight: Pharmaceutical Cubes by Kenneth Goldsmith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\" http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kenneth_Goldsmith\" target=\"_blank\">Kenneth Goldsmith<\/a>, poet and founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UbuWeb\" target=\"_blank\">UbuWeb<\/a>, created this series of six StoryCubes, each inscribed with the side effects of a certain prescription drug. The text is rendered in illegible 1-point type, so that the words become texture &#8211; some resembling the grooves in a vinyl record, another a peculiar lilac coloured static noise. Kenneth also provides an interesting point in regards to their physicality:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When folded into cubes, these warnings \u2013 secretly embedded into the pills we take \u2013 are  reconstituted into three-dimensional forms, creating a new type of  placebo.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Download and make them for yourself on <a href=\"http:\/\/diffusion.org.uk\/?tag=kenneth-goldsmith\" target=\"_blank\">Diffusion.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(You can also read a more in-depth post about these cubes, penned by our former blogger, Karen Martin, <a href=\"http:\/\/bookleteer.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/words-as-texture\/\">here.<\/a>)<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/proboscis\/5914700207\/in\/photostream\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6047\/5914700207_cbe0a8061b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">&quot;Prozac&quot; and &quot;Effexor&quot; <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenneth Goldsmith, poet and founder of UbuWeb, created this series of six StoryCubes, each inscribed with the side effects of a certain prescription drug. The text is rendered in illegible 1-point type, so that the words become texture &#8211; some resembling the grooves in a vinyl record, another a peculiar lilac coloured static noise. Kenneth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[337,150,19],"class_list":["post-4734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration","tag-inspiration","tag-poetry","tag-storycubes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4734"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4741,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4734\/revisions\/4741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookleteer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}