Great article on the post-9/11 zeitgeist of demonic rhetoric in political speech and popular culture.
http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-113893262/rhetoric-exorcism-george-w.html
Computer poetry is warfare carried out by other means, a warfare against conventionality and language that has become automatized. Strange as it seems, our finite state automata have become the poet’s allies in this struggle, the long historical battle by which mankind pries into the surface of language to reveal its latent mysteries… R.W. Bailey, Computer Poems (1973)
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
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