There is a current field of research about the mental pleasure human
brains receive from rejecting information, especially in political
concepts, instead of networking out in fuzzy assimilables.
Larry, could you give a pointer in this direction. i'm very curious.
My sense is that google sculpting does kasey's poetry a
disservice, if you read the work, there are things in it, which are
patently not simple google thefts..
I've tried to argue this on the lucipo list where a number of folks have been dissing flarf. the critics (or dissers) seem all to assume that the flarf gang are simply plugging in a pair of search terms with no thought about it and then chopping out the urls and such, lining it and presto: poem. but so far every poem i have seen (not that many really) suggests to me that there is a LOT of working over the material and by the admission of several of the folks they also write in much of their own, take lines from other sources etc.
i also made the link to the using the dictionary or even one's "own" vocabulary, but somehow no one wants to address that stuff.
jo lo
