alogism


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alogism

Obsolete, a statement that is nonsensical or illogical.
See also: Argumentation
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Loosely chronological, the exhibition embraces the diversity of illustrated books of poetry and prose produced collaboratively by artists and poets like Natalia Goncharova, Olga Rozanova, Mikhail Larionov, Velimir Khlebnikov, Aleksei Kruchenykh, and Vasily Kamensky (whose 1914 collection of ferro-concrete poems, Tango with Cows, provides the show's title), who worked within various competing and often overlapping trends such as neo-primitivism, Cubo-Futurism, alogism, ferro-concretism, and transrationalism.
(20) Like Gogol, Pelevin has a penchant for alogisms, even preceding Generatsion "P" with one in his authorial foreword: "The author's opinions do not necessarily coincide with his point of view."