Object card

JFK Schmidt on Luhmann’s Zettelkasten (Schmidt, 2016, pp. 292–293)

1950s-1960s:
Running-text taken from original source

1970s-1998:
Increasingly brief, telegraphic notes 
The inspiration for Zettel Gedicht

Museum object cards that contextualize and elucidate an object’s significance and background can be the sole reason to attend an exhibit. Since this example of minimalistisches Zettel Gedicht is an object card, it cannot be more interesting than itself. While gesturing toward iambic pentameter, its unpoetic, utilitarian corporate flatness qualifies it as a poem under established historical norms of avant-garde, high barrier-to-entry institutionalized radicalism, exemplified by the now inactive UbuWeb archive.