My favourite example of it is Ben Grosser’s edit of Andreeson Horowitz’s “Techno-optimist Manifesto”. It takes something gross and makes something beautiful out of it, by distilling Horowitz’s masturbatory prose into something more honest. It’s a long document, but it’s a refreshingly speedy read, what with entire pages being blacked out.
blackout poetry is awesome. it can be either insanely moving and deep but also makes for great shitposts
My favourite example of it is Ben Grosser’s edit of Andreeson Horowitz’s “Techno-optimist Manifesto”. It takes something gross and makes something beautiful out of it, by distilling Horowitz’s masturbatory prose into something more honest. It’s a long document, but it’s a refreshingly speedy read, what with entire pages being blacked out.
An excerpt