> A question re. 'new media'. Let's say that, as cris proposed in an
earlier
> post, I write a text which pops up when the cursor is rolled over a
> particular hotspot on the PC screen (something I am involved in
every day of
> my working life here, by the way). Once that text appears (a bit
like
> opening a book), in what way is its impact on the mind of the reader
any
> different than it would be if they encountered it by actually
opening a
> book?
What if a poem pops up there? Twould be different, as though in
solitary confinement, imprisoned in the neath text, popped up like a
corpse on a cash register.
Pop up poems: http://www.vispo.com/popups/popups.htm
> Yes, language is context specific, but the primary context for
language is
> other language.
Often. That is so concerning most books. Is it true in magazines or
walking down the street reading signs or on the Web amidst a mix of
image and language and sound and video, or in movies or in music, etc?
> Also, would the panel say anybody since Auden has made a convincing
fist of
> moving between 'high' and 'popular', or being both at the same time
to
> different audiences? (I know the distinction is lame and a bit
misdirecting,
> but maybe that's part of the point.) And if nobody really has, is
that
> principally about economics, or politics, or poetics, or what?
Alan Ginsberg, William S Burroughs, Leonard Cohen, Paul Simon, Patti
Smith, Laurie Anderson, John Lennon, Johnny Rotten...
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