Image: Paul Klee, Twittering Machine (Die Zwitscher-Maschine), 1922. Gauche, ink, watercolor, paper.
By Boris Arvatov (1925), Translated by Christina Kiaer (1997).
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See the full essay here in October no. 81 (Summer 1997). Also see here for Joshua Simon's The Language of Commodities, in Neomaterialism (2013).