Thank you for thoughtfully and patiently following the twists and turns, folds and twistings of the "information" that has been predigested for our consumption. I have been thinking about poetry and its demise while reading Muriel Rukeyser's The Life of Poetry. Is there a poet alive today whose newest work would be noted and read by a large portion of any culture in a way, say, Tennyson or Wordsworth or Eliot would have been in their time? Poetry's revolutionary content has been stripped and sold for parts, its emotional capacity to connect deeply with others reduced to puppetry that enables readers to return quiescently to their own cells. I suspect your writing on the prevailing forms and techniques of communication will help me dig into this more fruitfully.
I think of this world, and media especially, even more so social media, as a propaganda machine. The machine aspect stresses that it's not about propaganda and true or false, but about a reality that is created and perpetuated
It's why Twatter has become so intolerable to me - the machine has stripped off its trappings like that incredible scene in The Terminator where Schwarzenegger becomes his underlying robot exoskeleton.
Thank you for thoughtfully and patiently following the twists and turns, folds and twistings of the "information" that has been predigested for our consumption. I have been thinking about poetry and its demise while reading Muriel Rukeyser's The Life of Poetry. Is there a poet alive today whose newest work would be noted and read by a large portion of any culture in a way, say, Tennyson or Wordsworth or Eliot would have been in their time? Poetry's revolutionary content has been stripped and sold for parts, its emotional capacity to connect deeply with others reduced to puppetry that enables readers to return quiescently to their own cells. I suspect your writing on the prevailing forms and techniques of communication will help me dig into this more fruitfully.
I think of this world, and media especially, even more so social media, as a propaganda machine. The machine aspect stresses that it's not about propaganda and true or false, but about a reality that is created and perpetuated
It's why Twatter has become so intolerable to me - the machine has stripped off its trappings like that incredible scene in The Terminator where Schwarzenegger becomes his underlying robot exoskeleton.