POET PIRATE NETBOT Ruminations on the Undertaking of Excess Information by Kedrick James http://vispo.com/guests/kedrick/poetpiratebot
An essay by the Vancouver poet, musician, scholar, and visual artist Kedrick James. With 13 of his intriguing visual collages (click these for bigger versions). Kedrick finished his doctorate last year. It is one of the few readable and interesting doctoral dissertations I've encountered. It is titled "Writing Post-Person: Poetics, Literacy and Sustainability in the Age of Disposable Discourse". One of the things he looked at was spam as a literary phenomenon. In POET PIRATE NETBOT, he looks at related things: how writing and education are and will continue to change in light of the geometricly increasing avalanches of writing and media occassioned by the digital. The visual images in the essay relate to this topic via their being made from google image search images (they're not made with dbCinema). There's more work on vispo.com by Kedrick : http://vispo.com/dbcinema/kedrick is something I did in dbCinema on Kedrick's thesis "Writing Post-Person: Poetics, Literacy and Sustainability in the Age of Disposable Discourse". ja _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@netbehaviour.org http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
