Essays that forge a path to a truly radical "bad" modernism in art and literature. What, exactly, constitutes the "bad"? Can one consciously produce in the name of "badness," or is badness a value judgment that comes after the fact, from an Other? How does one begin to assign aesthetic value to an object? If one is to accept the "bad" as "good," or to find aesthetic value in badness, then when does the bad succeed and when does it...