June 08, 2008
June 05, 2008
as is well known...
Wittgenstein sez,
Do not forget that a poem, even though it is composed in the language of information, is not used in the language-game of giving information.An equivalent formulation from the perspective of politics: The poem wishes to confront capital without being used in the language-game of capital.
Whether such a hope might also attach to "the internet" seems to subtend much of the principled and/or churlish debate found here and here. The most pessimistic answer, but not the least reasonable, about poetry and the internet: neither/nor.
June 04, 2008
nothing moves but the image
A new web resource from the Museum of the Moving Image, Moving Image Source, is now live online (includes a sugary note regarding a ten-minute doc shot 40 years ago next Tuesday, along with a hi-qual stream of the metrage in question).