Okay Lawrence, but if we think in terms of collaboration as an example isn't
it likely that when something happens more frequently and more easily it is
going to change. Doesn't the fact that there are more and more
collaborations between writers and between artists and writers taking place
because of the technology, and that each one exhibits similarities and
differences with other collaborations, mean that the sum total of
collaborative activity, and the sum total of similarities and differences of
that type of activity, change our ideas about collaboration? So the
technology does impact on the poetry?
I'm not saying this is the case, I think I'm saying I don't know. Sorry, a
bit rushed.
Ian
>From: Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Poetry & the Internet
>Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 10:12:08 +0100
>
>I doubt this.
>
>Extensions of collage etc have been happening since they first happened;
>multi-media predates the web by decades; and collective composition
>
>"extended intertextuality" is a bit burdensome and limited without
>hypertext, though, but it hardly started with the web
>
>Your wager seems implausible to me
>
>Armitage will still be shanking away; Poetry please or something like it
>will still be broadcasting a highwayman came riding...
>
>In your post, Paul, you speak of the technology facilitating; and that is
>the word. As the technology gets cheaper and cheaper and more powerful in
>terms of processor speed and size of backing store, so the ability to
>experiment will become greater as it becomes easier; but totally redefining
>the way we do poetry? No. The technology isn't doing the redefining and it
>isn't that wholesale
>
>L
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Paul Green" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2004 1:21 PM
>Subject: Poetry & the Internet
>
>I'll
> > wager [...] that in a decade (Oct 9 2014) that the web and the e-book
>will have totally
> > redefined the way we do poetry...
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