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constant escape

constant escape

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Part of the urgency, in my mind, is that unless a proper means of understanding a wide expanse of information is elaborated, humans will continue to be helplessly farmed for information, thus expanding the expanse even more widely.
 
constant escape

constant escape

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And as if getting your own footing in such an expanse weren't difficult enough, the task also involves elaborating a program by which such a footing can more efficiently be secured.
 
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catalog

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Charles Olson and black Mountain were an incalculably big influence on iain sinclair and other revival poets of 60s and 70s, like Barry macsweeney and Tom pickard. Big with prynne as well I think?
 
linebaugh

linebaugh

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Im not sure understanding is where to look. Expanded understanding sounds like a instance where the cure is more of the disease. the concern is returning molecular agency to information, away from defacto molar aggregates.
 
constant escape

constant escape

winter withered, warm
Still haven't gotten a real footing in the molar/molecular dichotomy, still a bit blurry. Molar seems to describe the non-divisible character of some collective, whereas molecular seems to describe a part of some collective, no?

And I guess I would be more inclined to understand understanding, rather than just push a particular understanding to some deep intensity. That said, the latter can be a means for the former, no? You can study your understanding by trying to understand some given topic.
 
luka

luka

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catalog said:
Charles Olson and black Mountain were an incalculably big influence on iain sinclair and other revival poets of 60s and 70s, like Barry macsweeney and Tom pickard. Big with prynne as well I think?
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The single most important influence on Prynne though there's a break fairly early on. The Olson Prynne letters are one of the best things I've read. Just in terms of setting fire to the imagination
 
linebaugh

linebaugh

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constant escape said:
Still haven't gotten a real footing in the molar/molecular dichotomy, still a bit blurry. Molar seems to describe the non-divisible character of some collective, whereas molecular seems to describe a part of some collective, no?

And I guess I would be more inclined to understand understanding, rather than just push a particular understanding to some deep intensity. That said, the latter can be a means for the former, no? You can study your understanding by trying to understand some given topic.
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molecular does away with 'parts' and the 'collective'- free agents unrelated in all ways but proximity. Molar formations are the formations of molecular processes based on initial conditions and whatever 'accidents' happen along the way. Molar formations make 'parts' of the molecular, but that is not to say that within the molecular there was the vision of whatever molar formation would eventually come to make use of it.
 
craner

craner

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luka said:
The single most important influence on Prynne though there's a break fairly early on. The Olson Prynne letters are one of the best things I've read. Just in terms of setting fire to the imagination
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Have you got these? It's a really expensive book!
 
luka

luka

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It was cheaper when first printed but still expensive. I paid about £50. But I was rich then and it was a pleasure to spend money.
 
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catalog

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Has anyone read 'call me ishmael'? heard it's really good, and i like moby dick a lot as well. i don't think i could manage the maximus poems, but you never know. im thinking of reading the cantos after hearing RAW bang on about how amazing they are. he has them up there with ulysses/FG.
 
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