What is the UbuVerse?

The LRB Podcast

London Review of Books

Society & Culture

4.4 • 581 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Gill Partington and Thomas Jones explore Kenneth Goldsmith’s online avant-garde archive, UbuWeb, listen to some of the things you can find on it, and consider what might not be found there. Find Gill's piece and more relevant LRB pieces here: https://lrb.me/ubuwebpod Subscribe to the LRB from just £1 per issue: https://mylrb.co.uk/podcast20b Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you enjoy listening to the LRB podcast, then you'll probably enjoy reading the LRB.
0:06.1	You can subscribe to the LRB from just one pound per issue.
0:10.7	To find out more, go to LRB.combe.
0:14.0	Forwards slash listen.
0:16.1	That's LRB.m.m.m.
0:18.8	Forward slash listen.
0:23.8	Or click on the link in the description below this episode.
0:30.4	Hello and welcome to the London Review of Books podcast. My name is Thomas Jones. This week I'm talking to Jill Partington, who studies weird pages and unconventional reading practices currently
0:36.0	at Exeter University. And she has a piece in the
0:38.5	current issue of the LRP on UbuWeb, Kenneth Goldsmith's online clearinghouse for the avant-garde.
0:44.9	It's a review of a book by Goldsmith, Duchamp is my lawyer, the polemics, pragmatics and
0:49.7	poetics of UbuWeb, but we'll be talking about the site more generally some of the things you can find on it
0:54.9	and also some of the things that aren't cataloged
0:57.3	on the site, but wouldn't be had a place there.
1:00.4	The sonata in Uralauten.
1:05.1	Firm's per gif free.
1:09.5	Oh! Oh! O. The U. The U. Fibbebe
1:11.6	Fumnsbe
1:13.6	Fumbe Fumnsbe That's b'r be befim's bhr be b'r be be fums b'n B'r.
1:32.1	That was some of ursinate by Kirch Witters,
1:45.4	performed possibly by the artist himself and available on UbuWeb.
1:51.5	Jill, that gives us some idea of the kind of thing you can find on the website.
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