Personally, I prefer detailed replies. It's exactly what I need to
open up my thinking.
I do wonder if a canon is such a horrible thing. In a sense, things
get canonized anyways. Right now, Amazon is building a canon. The
New York Times bestseller list is building a canon. Google is
building
Given some of the recent discussion on this subject I thought
participants may be interested to hear about the NATURAL AND
BIOMIMETIC MECHANOSENSING CONFERENCE (see below). Especially
considering their definition of the meeting as ...dedicated to the
identification of common principles
In response to Alan and Juan's exchange:
Criticism does accomplish a number of things...
1) For artists, the work of critics can provide challenges to work
against or models to strive for. Whether or not they are valid,
some of these strange critical flourishes are useful, especially if
treated
..on Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:07:18PM -0400, Juan B. Gutierrez wrote:
Thanks to Simon and all others for such a wonderfully catalytic
discussion. Simon says:
«What I am seeking to do here is to separate poetics from human intent
and authorship and regard it instead as a phenomena of
Davin,
Here is where the definition proposed by Simon becomes very useful:
creative practice of association. All the distinction I tried to
establish between communicative act and communicative event was geared
toward the conditions necessary for communication. We can think of this
foundation
Towards a theory of digital poetics (open to debate - in the bar)
Dawkins has argued that people are the carrier of and reproductive
instrument for genetic code. He has also sought to conflate genetics and
human language, with his concept of the Meme - the proposal that an idea can
reproduce
