I wouldnt argue with that at all
I am saying that collaboration didnt start because of the web, but has been
helped along by it.
And the wager's premise is implausible
L
-----Original Message-----
From: ian davidson <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 12 October 2004 11:33
Subject: Re: Poetry & the Internet
>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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