Re: <documenta X><blast>
cwduff@alcor.concordia.ca
Sun, 20 Jul 1997 14:29:01 -0400 (EDT)
But why think of poetry or spirituality as being in conflict with
the virtual? In fact, Dante speaks of the virtual way back in the Divine
Comedy. Isn't the virtual comical? But then one has to be wary of the
temptations of the Real slipping away into the hands of the virtual
bosses, the virtual superegos. One can see this already happening on the
net... yes, It is lovely and like other lovely things can be played
against us.... Perhaps the work of poets is to tame and ride the waves of
the virtual and capture the moment of its treasure... La poesie latent et
la poesie actif. ... there is a poetry of the virtual which interacts with
the actual at the moment of our greatest attention. Auras of desire still
blink in the world of the invisible.
without poetry or an aura of spirituality. The virtual is still so
> invisible in the daily commerce of our lives. So few people train
> themselves to use it, like any muscle or any tool in any ordinary
> prompts.
It would really be an amazing thing if we were watching streams
> of data from Mars instead of just reviewing some narrow bandwidth of
> outcome expressed in photographs and stupid rock names.
> again. A stream of poetic flows linking the capital machine to art
words and names of words linking and breaking with text/picture to invent
new machine, novel desires.. repeating as form of desire and memory as in
love making... the arts amori of Ovid and the tantric masters...how to
make repression work for desire... to break the stupidity of everyday
life.. to breath in fascination against a useless repetition, and discover
rather the repeating Season of memory... and forgetfullness too... they
have their place... Or repetition and difference and the changes which
keep adding up and down on the repetition desire machine
.... desire for repetition fascinates me too.
about this desire
> All my words repeat, and then singularize, CLifford Duffy
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