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Machine Poem Mix
Jonathan Ball. Ex Machina. BookThug, 2009. Like Cortázar’s Hopscotch, each section is numbered and, unlike the novel, each line offers a path to read on, a sort of hyperlink in print. [50] The poem is not written by machines. [36] … Continue reading
More Word Associations
Like an exquisite corpse, more from the denizens of Madhouse. (Nov 16 18:54) From Yred: surprise (Nov 18 17:26) From Light: party (Nov 19 18:43) From Irc: political (Nov 23 18:17) From Yred: animal (Nov 25 21:50) From Irc: vegetable … Continue reading
Compression Expression
The glue in the perfect binding of my copy of James Schuyler The Morning of the Poem (1980) has dried up and the cover (with its lovely drawing by Anne Dunn) has become detached. I am waiting for the sections … Continue reading
Valuing Attributes and Attributions
Arturo Schwarz (The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp) provides a bibliographic reference to a piece by John Cage “26 Statements Re Duchamp” and attributes the following statement to Duchamp Tools that are not good require more skill. The piece is … Continue reading
Glass Bead Game – American Style
Ivanhoe IVANHOE is a pedagogical environment for interpreting textual and other cultural materials. It is designed to foster critical awareness of the methods and perspectives through which we understand and study humanities documents. An online collaborative playspace, IVANHOE exposes the … Continue reading
Wish A Joke
I first encountered the joke in Jacques Derrida’s quotation of it in his eulogy for Sarah Kofman. He announces it well in advance of its citation and thus builds up anticipation and tension which is released when he quotes Kofman’s … Continue reading
Project Rebuild
Sachiko Murakami What is a poem but a rental unit of language? This is a question that introduces a project by Sachiko Murakami. http://projectrebuild.ca/ People “are invited to move into any of the poems on the site, and renovate”. The … Continue reading
Grids, Lists, Clusters
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 18, No. 347. To extrapolate: the electronic medium facilitates reading in terms of clusters, lists, and tables (a type of reading that was always available to the clever manipulator of index cards). I like to think … Continue reading
Roaming Conclusions
In the final section “Conclusions” of the anthology of selections and commentary entitled Texts and Pretexts (1932) Aldous Huxley invites us to consider last thoughts Or if we must play the theological game, let us never forget that it is … Continue reading
Cubicle Chronicles
Once upon a time there was a big bad employer (short-sighted employer who wanted to gut the collective agreement provisions for job security and merit pay — clawbacks which attacked the younger workers and would hobble the employer’s attempt to … Continue reading