Drucker Respone

I think Drucker’s main claim in this writing is that when writing is change from a conventional form to a more experimental form it can alter the perception of the text. There was nothing new, different, or unexpected for me in this writing. This article is very similar to the other articles we have read in the ways that it talks about how writers of the past rebelled against the standards of writing during their time in favor of a different way writing and reading. In the case of Mallarme he hated the type of text newspapers used and how they structured their articles, so he developed new and experimental ways of how text should look on a page.

The main reason why very few people have experimented with writing during this time is because they learned how to read and write by reading various text that they are exposed to. The invention of machines that mass produce literature severely limited the ways in which text could be presented to the public. Creative and experimental writers had to find ways to manipulate these technologies in order to create the type of writing they aspired to create. I also think it is important to take into consideration that society was very conservative during this time, which made any type of experimentation even more unlikely to occur.

The one thing I’ll hold onto from this reading is a better understanding of why some writers chose to experiment, which was because they were bored with how structured and organized text looked on the page.