Comments for Tributaries & Text-Fed Streams

Comment on closure/foreclosure by j.pullin

j.pullin — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:59:24 +0000

Hey Kevin,I’m glad to see you’re still happening.I always knew you had a bit of the Celtic-poet intellect about you,you old larrakin:and me?Jeez I can’t find my knee;it has to be replaced with a steel and plastic one;beaten down,but not totally done;when we weren’t orphans and time was young;I believe life was much more fun.Cheers old boy!Jpullin@shaw.ca

Comment on Feeds and Streams: RSS Poetics by rss

rss — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:11:53 +0000

From and August 22, 2008 post to: vlog 4.0 [a blog about vogs], the research blog of Adrian Miles, coordinator Labsome Honours Studio, RMIT University. Hypertext theory, vogs (videoblog) theory and practice, networked literacies and pedagogies:

Time to briefly engage with, or at least jump sideways from, the bubbling effervescent musings of my friend Mark. (You can tell he’s hanging out in Hawaii because the writing is all so abrupt and volcanic. The writing that happens when you live where it is all edge - water, beach, mountain, rock, lava, the ‘real’ U.S. is over there elsewhere.) So, he found a really interesting post elsewhere about RSS poetics which leads him to wonder
Is this indicative of a reverse-writerly theory that turns Barthes on his head or is it more like a theory-play where remixology meets pleasure of the text?
Perhaps it is neither? One of the places we seem to have found ourselves within (and which Mark’s own practice probably exemplifies) is the dissolution of what at the end of the day are increasingly quaint dualisms.

http://vogmae.net.au/vlog/2008/08/dualism/

Comment on Alternate Readings: The “In This Issue” Remix by AK

AK — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 06:23:37 +0000

The text seems runny today.

Comment on Tributaries & Text-Fed Streams by Elit 2.0 (a guide to literary works on social software) at WRT: Writer Response Theory

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:03:12 +0000

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Comment on What the heck is RSS? by Babble Brook

Babble Brook — Tue, 20 May 2008 15:01:43 +0000

“Indeed, it seems to me that one writes into a field of writing that is as invariably and promisingly larger and less masterable than the one over which one maintains a provisional authority, and that the unanticipated reappropriations of a given work in areas for which it was never consciously intended are some of the most useful.”
- Judith Butler

Comment on Interstitial by jhave

jhave — Wed, 14 May 2008 01:12:18 +0000

Interstitial

Comment on Interstitial by rss

rss — Sat, 10 May 2008 20:08:58 +0000

Make a habit of regularly observing the universal process of change; be assiduous in your attention to it, and school yourself throughly in this branch of study; there is nothing more elevating to the mind. - Marcus Aurelius

Comment on local and remote: a recursive feedback loop by michael boyce

michael boyce — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 02:56:26 +0000

Frank T Vertosik wrote a book entitled: The Genius Within: Discovering the Intelligence of Every Living Thing
This is from the Library Journal review of it:
“To be alive, one must think.” A practicing neurosurgeon, Vertosick maintains that intelligence the ability to store experience and to use it to solve future problems is an emergent property of groups. Thus, bacteria, the immune system, and enzymes can be as smart as the human brain. All of these entities operate within networks that communicate and adapt to change in true Darwinian fashion. He further believes that this network paradigm of problem-solving originated at the cellular level.

I read this book, and reading the above text made me think of it. Because it puts an interesting spin on what you might call the phenomenology of networks, and because it of it’s idea that life is intelligence, which is it self and emergent property of groups (or networks)

Comment on YouTube Poetry by Tatjana Debeljacki

Tatjana Debeljacki — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:05:57 +0000

TO - HINDS

Arrival he is using as the preparation
Of the future pychodramatic chance.
Imagination is hindering the good old days with its shadow.
The against- will is opening the occasion,
The homeless thoughtfully, satisfied
Reaches and maintains the dependanc, enriches
Harmony with the heat of dirt. Red handed scent of perfume
Neutralized with vodka, taking his clothes off not to crease them.
The jealousy asked him when he had cheated her? Two months ago!
Continuous, permanent betrayal, not concentrated …
Timid, scared, manlike voice in the exclamation mark!
Lust and desire are long-sighted!
Negative because of egoism, from the nirvana of metaphysical lust
Why are you grappling it as a child does to his mother’s skirt!!!

Tatjana Debeljacki

Comment on YouTube Poetry by Tatjana Debeljacki

Tatjana Debeljacki — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:01:38 +0000

GORD-A-DAN

by Tatjana Debeljacki

THE ROOTS ARE CLAIRVOYANT, GRASPING UNTOUCHABLE WISDOM. THAT IS THE WAY IT STARTS, THE SIGN OF TIMES IS DECEIVING. IT IS THE TIME TO SEE THE DROWNED. DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE READING? YOU ARE BRINGING AS SMALL AMOUNTS AS YOU LIKE TO. YOUR IMAGE IS STILL GROWING AND CRYING. COMING CLOSER AND GOING AWAY, STRONG WEAKNESS. THE WORLD THAT IS SPREADING BUT DOES NOT BELONG TO ANYONE, GIVE SOMETHING FROM YOURSELF THAT COULD BRING SENSE FROM THE THREAD OF WILL. TRY LOOKING WITH DIFFERENT EYES TO THE LIGHT. EVIL IS DANGEROUS, CONTAGEOUS ILLNESS, MOVE OUT OF THAT EVIL, IT MAKES THE CENTURY LONGER.”GORD-A-DAN” THE TEAR RIVERS ARE NOW MURMURING, THE DOG IS WAILING, YOU ARE GONE. BREAK LOOSE I BEG YOU! AND SLENTLY, THROUGH THE OPEN DOOR, COME TO ATTEND THE FEAST OF PRESERVED EMOTIONS, DAYDREAMS, THE HAPPY MOMENTS! DECENT GIFT, HUNGRY CRAVING IN THE BUNK OF FEATHERS, SILK AS PURE AS THE SNOW, WITH THE FORCE OF SILENCE. FLOWERS OF DANDELLIONS LET’S DANCE FROM AFAR WITH OUR LOOKS, WITH OUR BODIES, LET’S TOUCH WITH PALMS ONLY.