Re: Lanny's quote - I think Gordon Allport talked about this from a
sociological viewpoint in The Nature of Prejudice. But I'd also like to
see a source.
Re: Flarf - still not having read the essay (I've been sick, getting ready
to leave for Geneva, and w/ constant headaches), what on earth diff. does
it make where/what the source is? If it reads of interest, welcome it!
I know w/ my own work when I use Google, I have to do a huge number of
other transformations to get it 'where I want it.'
What I remember about flarf was fun!
- Alan
On Fri, 3 Feb 2006, John Lowther wrote:
On Friday, February 3, 2006, at 04:54 AM, Lanny Quarles wrote:
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
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