Introduction: On spirals -- Definitions: a brief history of spirals (and a way of reading spirally) -- Entering the whirlpool: pataphysics, futurism, vorticism -- Twinned towers: Yeats, Tatlin, and the unfashionable performance of internationalism -- L'Habite en spirale: Duchamp, Joyce, and the ineluctable visibility of entropy -- At the end of the jetty: Beckett . . . Smithson. recoil . . . return -- In conclusion: The spiral and the grid.
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