miscellany
“When you do not speak, the thousand stars that lay upon your tongue slide back down your throat only to be swallowed one by one, jagged, pointed and weighing more than planets.”
—Tama Kieves (via thehiddenabyss)
July 2012
17 posts
“It helps to remember that all the bad headlines and all the good headlines are made from the same twenty-six letters.”
—Sy Safransky
“A layman will no doubt find it hard to understand how pathological disorders of the body and mind can be eliminated by “mere” words. He will feel that he is being asked to believe in magic. And he will not be so very wrong, for the words which we use in our everyday speech are nothing other than watered-down magic.”
—Sigmund Freud
“The sky has taken away light.
Is it punishment? the newspaper editorial asked. We thought God was dead.
Forgive us, they said. Whoever you are, forgive us.
The newspaper printed this as if God could read.” —Blues for the Death of the Sun by Ansel Elkins - Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics
Is it punishment? the newspaper editorial asked. We thought God was dead.
Forgive us, they said. Whoever you are, forgive us.
The newspaper printed this as if God could read.” —Blues for the Death of the Sun by Ansel Elkins - Guernica / A Magazine of Art & Politics
“Reality, on its own terms, is strange and full of conflict. You just have to be patient enough to dig up the conflict.”
—Jaed Coffin, via The Residency and Immersion « Alan W. King’s Blog
“If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.”
—Haruki Murakami (via alecshao)
“Everybody should learn to code, he says, because machine/human and machine/machine interaction is becoming as ubiquitous as human/human interaction. Those who don’t know how to code soon will be in the same position as those who couldn’t read or write 200 years ago.”
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Computer Programming for All: A New Standard of Literacy (via courtenaybird)
If I had kids now their second language course would be a coding language.
(via wordbk)
And of course, as those Wordpress guys said, code is poetry.
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Spoken word: the rise of performance poetry →
podcast.ft.com
Had a full on conversation with Kate Tempest and Suzi Feay on the Financial Times Arts podcasts. Not sure if I said everything I wanted to say, but I had to allow space for others to speak! So much to explore in the space between “page” poetry and spoken word.
Oh, and Douglas Kearney. Mid-way through the discussion, I really wanted to find a way to reference Douglas Kearney as a poet who’s interested in both page and stage, and bringing them together, such that the work on the page has a performative quality in its design. Hm. Didn’t quite make that point, but then I guess that’s what the post-podcast blog post is for…
“He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”
—Elbert Hubbard (via light-essence)
