“Digital computers and software technologies are holistic; they think in terms of whole structures.”
Video 80(5):36-41. 1982. Bill Viola, Reasons for Knocking at an Empty House, pg. 101. Editor. Robert Violette. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995.
Friends of Orbit Bright – a racistly-white parody site promoting chewing gum and chastity (sex!). Painfully obvious perpetual brand placements. It’s aimed at (post-)tweeners who believe in god but want to get laid.
Outlook Theatre – a car made glamorous through association with video vignettes of a perfect family and immaculate romantic moments. Light fluffy and efficient consumer waltz. It’s aimed at the wife archetype who wishes she could drive away.
UFC66 – an Ultra fighting championship labyrinth full of snarling warriors and big time money. It’s aimed at soldiers, the dispossessed and anyone who needs to fight just to survive. The myth of a champion is needed only by the defeated and oppressed.
“The web-based literary journal Alire was created in January 1989 by the Parisian groupL.A.I.R.E. (Lecture, Art, Innovation, Recherche, Écriture) -which included Philippe Bootz, Frédéric Develay, Jean-Marie Dutey, Claude Maillard and Tibor Papp. Alire is known as the oldest multimedia journal in Europe, and certainly one of the oldest in the West. Before the arrival of CD-ROMs, before the Internet explosion, the journal was already publishing poetry written for and intended to be read through computers.”
“…a journal of critical and theoretical discussions of poetics and Canadian culture, written primarily by Canadian writers and artists.”
“Popular culture is defined in part by its immediacy and it is not clear that one can meaningfully understand how it works or what it does without stepping at least temporarily into the realm of the proximate and the passionate.” April 16, 2007, http://www.henryjenkins.org/
“As ‘the humanities’ are increasingly charged with the task of responding to the informatic Engineering World View, the leisure of a theory divorced from experimental practice may prove to be more unsustainable than ever.”
“Poetry, fiction, or other literary work that depends on the distinctive behavioral, visual, or material properties of computers, computer networks, and code for its composition, execution, and reception.”
Richard Rorty (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
“Explaining rationality and epistemic authority by reference to what society lets us say, rather than the latter by the former, is the essence of what I shall call ‘epistemological behaviorism,’ an attitude common to Dewey and Wittgenstein.” [Richard Rorty, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979).p.174]
“Multi-dimmensional: A 2D drawing of an 8D object that stands as a root of the 57D object called E8, and its 248D symmetries.
American Institute of Mathematics/Peter McMullen.
The creation of this map, which took 77 hours on a supercomputer, resulted in a matrix of 453,060 x 453,060 cells.”
News at Nature. “Journey to the 248th dimension”.
Published online: 19 March 2007; | doi:10.1038/news070319-4
“ATOPIA is a virtual archipelago sharing philosophy, literature, arts and politics….ATOPIA is no place. It is literally the non-place which exists only virtually. Just a knot in the net which grants no hold but connects other knots. ATOPIA is nothing more than a weaving loom intertwining heterogeneous strings. There is no preconceived model, the form constantly transforms itself. “
“…literature is too multi-faceted, rambunctious, and iconoclastic to fit the limits of any definition… Literary theory does continue to be a central part of the practice of many postlanguage poets, yet they tend to undertake it with an ambivalent and often wearied eye.…Thus, while narrative, lyric, spirituality, and a poetics of the everyday appear often as elements that language poets think should be rejected, postlanguage poets such as Juliana Spahr, Susan Smith Nash, Jefferson Hansen, Liz Willis, Peter Gizzi, Chris Stroffolino, Jennifer Moxley, Joe Ross, Lisa Jarnot, myself and many others have been consciously using one or several of these elements in their work, without returning to the sort of naive justifications of those elements that continue to be a feature of more mainstream American poetry.”
textetc : literary theory: an evaluation:
“Theory does not deal with absolutes but with possibilities, speculations, elusive chains of thought…Is there now a generally correct theory of literature? No. Is there a body of thought that is broadly accepted? Far from it: the scene is a battlefield of opinions and assertions, with little supporting thought or experiment.”