On 21/8/05 11:06 AM, "Stephen Vincent" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Of course, one might imagine, "Intelligent Design" is meant to infect and
> kill the usefulness or need to poetry. It's built on the most
> counter-pragmatic vision of language imaginable. The fixities of this
> so-called "Intelligent" vision render linguistic improvisation, or the
> language of poetry and political empowerment and process, a dead horse in
> the wind.
>
> Is it not more than time for writers to go on the counter-attack - or???
Poetry is, of course, a debacle of the intellect - though that's not quite
what Baudelaire meant, it's not so far away either.
The counter discourse is of course the lovely reason of the embodied mind,
aka poetry, aka love. It's always been there, quietly, its own anarchic
authority. The question is more whether people might start listening to
it...
Best
A
Alison Croggon
Blog: http://theatrenotes.blogspot.com
Editor, Masthead: http://masthead.net.au
Home page: http://alisoncroggon.com
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