Re: [-empyre-] a-life poetic moments

[Mitchell Whitelaw <mitchell.whitelaw@canberra.edu.au>]

> "truest" to what? to a mechanical notion of a-life?

Simply to a technical or disciplinary definition of a-life (ie, poetry 
that actually displays or manifests properties of a-life).

> good ideas spread via mutual consent, not by forcing things on people 
> they
> don't want and are harmful.

and virii are certainly not good ideas... my intention was simply to 
point out that to take the organic analogy seriously, as a-life art 
does, results in something more problematic than a "well formed whole" 
as in Coleridge's (for eg) organicism... life will do as it will (and 
can)...

Mitchell Whitelaw
Program Director, Media / Multimedia Production
School of Creative Communication
University of Canberra
http://creative.canberra.edu.au/mitchell