Technology as Magic and Love

Hot Potato for today is from J. Franzen, who's novel Freedom doesn't have an ounce of real love in it.

how the extremely cool things that we can do now with these gadgets — like impelling them to action with voice commands, or doing that spreading-the-fingers iPhone thing that makes images get bigger — would have looked, to people a hundred years ago, like a magician’s incantations, a magician’s hand gestures; and how, when we want to describe an erotic relationship that’s working perfectly, we speak, indeed, of magic.

Technology is not Love

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Colors and Compositions

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Poem Projector 1

I'm introducing a new semi-weekly series I like to call Poetry Projector. Comprised of a single continuous shot, poem projector couples a poem with visual composition in an attempt to complicate and/or augment the reception of both. Simply put, P.P. is my reading of a young poets work while maintaining a composition. These are not perfect, and should not be viewed as authoritative by any means, but hopefully they will be enjoyed.

The first poem is by Chris Tonelli, who's first book is The Trees Around, by Birds, LLC. Chris teaches at NC State and operates the So and So reading series in Raleigh.

If you have any suggestions/requests, let me know. Enjoy!

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Colors and Compositions

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Colors and compositions

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Using Magic of a Different Sort

Today's Hot Potato link:

Yesterday I linked through Facebook about the interpretation of literature as magic and magic as art.
Today, an interesting look at the unconscious connection of blackout poems, visual texts, and decollage over atBig Other, started off by using Magic of a different(?) sort.
Jeremiah


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