bob marcacci just e-mailed me about what i was writing about the other day, i.e. "internationalism through e-zines & the electric non-being of the web." he's in japan and finds that he uses the web to touch base with other poets and see the playful mixed media of web sites. as an web editor, i have wanted to receive more mixed media poetic works. in moria, i have published mp3s to go along with poems and poems mixed with images. maybe what i'm longing to see is the whole thing all mixed up. i want something to mirror the mass of fragmented jumble that is thrown at us on a daily basis. and yet, is this desire just based on my own social construction? partially related—a friend, who spent his hours reading delueze, in baton rouge used to tell me that we only experience life through a flood of images. on the whole i disagree. but back to internationalism & e-zines. as a reader, i have explored poets online who live in diverse countries that i would not have been able to find as easily without the electric web of non-being. for example, i have read some wonderful australian poets recently, like d.j. huppatz, nicole tomlinson, and louis armand. i might have come across armand (his Land Partition was excellent), but the others i would have had to search harder for. moreover, as a writer i have been influenced by many writers whose work i initially meet on the web, like tim gaze or mIEKAL aND. so basically, i am not answering my questions from the other day, but expanding on them.
1. as the u.s. grows its empire, is its baby, the internet, serving to dismantle the notion of empire as a force with a central authority? in other words, if the traditional artistic centers, paris, new york, london, are being replaced by electric non-being spaces on the web as spaces where diverse poets from disparate countries can cross, then does that complicate the need for central artistic spaces, just like it complicates the feasibility of a centralized empire, i.e. the problem of controlling web space? one could argue that it could help the rapid spread of global culture, but just the opposite could happen as well; it could help spread a tolerance for diversity and a wider knowledge of other cultural paradigms. in an odd way, this topic seems to connect with adorno's thoughts on use of the lyric. it also reminds me of a line from camille martin's poem "métro:" "a thing machine a network speed / multiplies."
2. ok, so i only have that one bullet on my mind at the present.
1. as the u.s. grows its empire, is its baby, the internet, serving to dismantle the notion of empire as a force with a central authority? in other words, if the traditional artistic centers, paris, new york, london, are being replaced by electric non-being spaces on the web as spaces where diverse poets from disparate countries can cross, then does that complicate the need for central artistic spaces, just like it complicates the feasibility of a centralized empire, i.e. the problem of controlling web space? one could argue that it could help the rapid spread of global culture, but just the opposite could happen as well; it could help spread a tolerance for diversity and a wider knowledge of other cultural paradigms. in an odd way, this topic seems to connect with adorno's thoughts on use of the lyric. it also reminds me of a line from camille martin's poem "métro:" "a thing machine a network speed / multiplies."
2. ok, so i only have that one bullet on my mind at the present.
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