MetaFilter posts tagged with poetics

how now brown cow / how now / how now shall we live

oulipian — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 11:31:00 -0800

is it t / is it true / is it too late to register to vote / is it time to break up / is it tuesday Enjoy the algorithmically-generated autocompleted poignance of Google Poetics, or submit your own. "Obviously Google is not Shakespeare, Whitman or Dickinson - it can not illuminate the unknown. But it does reveal our inner workings, our fears and prejudices, secrets and shames, the hope and longing of a modern individual." (from the info page)

No fate; no fate but what we make. My Father told her this.

cortex — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 12:26:23 -0800

The Bible & Terminator 2: Heteroglossic discourse and poetic authority.

A Popular Guide to Unpopular Music

beshtya — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 04:32:44 -0800

A Popular Guide to Unpopular Music by Kenneth Goldsmith, founder of Ubu. Here is an interview with Goldmith in The Believer.

"Uncreative Genius"

bardic — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 03:57:12 -0800

"The prominent literary critic Marjorie Perloff has recently begun using the term 'unoriginal genius' to describe this tendency emerging in literature. Her idea is that, because of changes brought on by technology and the Internet, our notion of the genius—a romantic, isolated figure—is outdated. An updated notion of genius would have to center around one's mastery of information and its dissemination. Perloff has coined another term, 'moving information,' to signify both the act of pushing language around as well as the act of being emotionally moved by that process. She posits that today's writer resembles more a programmer than a tortured genius, brilliantly conceptualizing, constructing, executing, and maintaining a writing machine." --Kenneth Goldsmith on why "genius" is an archaic concept, and how literature in English has fallen half-a-century behind advances in visual arts and music

Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema

hama7 — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:02:33 -0800

Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema - David Bordwell

The poetry wants to be free

jokeefe — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 15:06:16 -0800

U Penn's Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing launches PennSound, an mp3 poetry library. Press release is here. Listen to sound files of single poems; read the manifesto; browse the author index; check out the webcast archive; and more (from the related Ubuweb).

"The Druids of the ancient Celtic world have a startling kinship with the brahmins of the Hindu religion,"

homunculus — Wed, 31 Jul 2002 13:39:04 -0800

"The Druids of the ancient Celtic world have a startling kinship with the brahmins of the Hindu religion," according to popular historian Peter Berresford Ellis. Another author examines the parallels between Celtic and Vedic culture in the article The Celtic Vedic Connection, and a particular diety is analyzed in The Horned God in India and Europe. This may not be very conservative scholarship, but I found it intriguing and fun to contemplate.