[New-Poetry] EBM

[Millicent]

I keep thinking of that movie Idiocrasy--


Millicent 

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Right, obsolete technology becomes luxury. Like letter-press books or riding horses.

The delays in the technologies you mention had to do for the most part with rights.

I'm not condoning this, just seeing it as inevitable. And it follows the usual pattern that the new medium brings more and cheaper access, at the cost of habitual ways of reciving information.

Electronic books will probably change the way people read and in turn the way people write. One more piece of the world that I won't live to see becoming a different place.

Best,

Mark

At 05:14 PM 11/24/2010, you wrote:

I love my Kindle, but I find that I ONLY use it when I travel.  It's perfect for loading books up for long flights and residencies. But, at home, sitting on my couch or in bed or outside on my deck, I still like real books better.  Of course I am sure the world is heading towards electronic texts only, as more and more libraries around the world are moving books and microfilm and publications into permanent storage. But, still, it might be quite sometime before there is a complete change-over.  Like videos.  Video on demand, the technology was there before the first VCR or BETA appeared in the marketplace, but, yet, for a good twenty or thirty years mom and pop places and Blockbuster made small fortunes on video stores where people could shop and pick up some popcorn.  And Netflix made a bloody fortune in mailing DVDs until the public finally started to embrace movies on demand and Hula and You Tube.
 
Or, books could become art objects.  The same way paintings did not become obsolete when photography was invented. Their purpose just shifted.

Millicent 
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An interim technology, until it's all kindle.

At 04:49 PM 11/24/2010, you wrote:

Just before going bye-bye the codex book reaches its apotheosis...
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q946sfGLxm4&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL 

 
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"What a beautiful set of circumstances! What a lovely concatenation of particulars. Here is the poet alive in every sense of the word, and through every one of his senses. Instead of missing a beat or a part, Weiss’ fragments are like Chekhov’s short stories­the more that gets left out, the more they seem to contain… One can hear echoes from all the various ancestors...[but] the voice, at its center, its core, is pure Mark Weiss. His use of the fragment is both elegant and bafflingly clear, a pure musical threnody…[it] opens a window, not only into a mind, but a person, a personality, this human figure at the emotional center of the poem."
 
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