"Yet the _richness_ and simultaneities of digital
comms begin to provide some aspects of what took people towards lit / poetry"
and I would add - immediacy. Poetry that I connect with gives me a sense
of immediacy that is extremely satisfying. Emails and other forms of
digital communications can sometimes come close to that.
Tina
> Ive been thinking where to come in. There's so much to say.
>
> And maybe this is where I should start. It may look as a direct
> refutation of Sue's suggestion; and that is not what I intend; yet I do
> want to put in a "but"
>
> I am all for abandoning canonical thinking...
>
> & Literature is not a term I would use. I prefer _poetry_ and _poetic
> imagination_. I would not see _poetry_ as a synonym for _literature_ I
> am not taking that further or it would tend to divert us
>
> But the thing about poetry is that it isn't a form of communication in
> the way that a business letter is. It's actually a denial of that model
> - I don't mean of "capitalism" - and it resists functional analysis in
> much the same way that soup resists being sliced with a knife. Yet the
> _richness_ and simultaneities of digital comms begin to provide some
> aspects of what took people towards lit / poetry
>
> different modes of imagination are at work between the poetic and the
> functional; but perhaps they could approach each other more readily in
> an e-environment
>
> L
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sue Thomas <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> <[log in to unmask]> Date: Tuesday, July 05,
> 2005 9:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [WDL] message below
>
>
> Re the literary imagination – I would like to propose that we consider
> setting aside the notion of the literary, which so often muddies the
> waters, and think instead of ‘writing’ or ‘text’ or even
> ‘information’, and see how that affects the debate. After all, there
> is much more to digital textuality than ‘literature’. A useful source
> for this is Alan Liu’s recent book The Laws of Cool
> http://www.english.ucsb.edu/faculty/ayliu/research/books/Laws_of_Cool_precis.html
> which looks at business language and knowledge work. I think it is
> very important to pull ourselves away from canonical thinking
> sometimes and consider functional and informational texts like the
> memo or the advertisement or even the train timetable. All of these
> are tools for communication which use text and which have been
> transformed by technology at various points.
>
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