[-empyre-] prickles and goo

[david jhave johnston]

the ongoing ping pong between theorists (definers) and artists (makers)
reminds me (somewhat) of Allan Watts old 'prickles and goo' distinction
http://www.neticons.net/prickles/
for watts, it all depends on the level of magnification.
"life is gooey prickles and prickly goo"

synergistically both theory and art-making contribute to the evolution
of the whole
taxonomies and histories inform practice
while art-practice seeds insight and forces theory into critical reevaluations

epistemological ecology
involves mutually-beneficial exchanges
across remote boundaries

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on another note: jim's comments re the migration of paper journals
toward digital media are cogent
poetry is a marginal niche-species and the web represents a mode of
leveraging the long-tail...
the hit count of a successful site can easily exceed (in a day, week
or month) a typical small-press book-run
literature is heading online; the media's capacities, like a vacuum
licked by wind, are being explored

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and for the curious scavenger, here are 336 bookmarks I've tagged
"digitalPoetics"
http://delicious.com/jhave2/digitalpoetics
(the first few will seem familar since they are --with thanks--
derived from items posted by others to this list)

cheers,
jhave
http://glia.ca