My super-wife (http://lifeinrelationtoart.wordpress.com/) strikes again – a triptych selected for exhibition opening this Friday at City Arts – Wichita, KS. Come participate if you can – a varietous juried show! Congrats love!
https://www.facebook.com/WichitaCityArts
http://www.downtownwichita.org/have_fun-first_final_friday.php
I’m currently reading Too Big To Know by David Weinberger and quite intrigued by his observations – Lane’s account is a cogent analysis of why.
If David Weinberger is to be believed, the Internet hasn’t just changed how we access information, it has altered the very meaning of ‘knowledge’. In a recent interview with The Atlantic, Weinberger claims that “for the coming generation, knowing looks less like capturing truths in books than engaging in never-settled networks of discussion and argument.” Supposedly, the networked, collaborative, and social nature of the Internet has changed our very understanding of knowledge to the point that knowledge is no longer tied to concepts of truth, objectivity, or certainty. Instead, as Weinberger argues in his recent book, Too Big to Know, “knowledge is a property of the network” (p. xiii). That is, the Internet has profoundly changed what it means to be a fact, to be true, or to be known. This book has been making the rounds among librarians, so I thought it might be a good idea…
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“Ultimately we find that the cognitive consequences are more about the new meaning systems and activities that occupy our minds than they are just about the character of work with symbols…”
“Whether one form of inscription is more efficient or more easily learned than another (the asserted alphabetic advantage) may be less consequential in its cognitive consequences than if a society has developed a large bureaucracy, literary culture, philosophic tradition, technology, commerce, and educational system using whatever form(s) of inscription it has historically developed”
“The world we know, think about, and act within is saturated by and structured on the texts that travel from place to place and have some durability over the years. The built symbolic world on which we have elaborated new social meanings and relationships and that is the object of our thought and attention as we try to live our lives as successfully as we can within it, in that we find the consequences of literacy.”
-Charles Bazerman, Social Implications of Writing-
Rage
“ …that dog
barking at nothing
because every time he’s barked at nothing,
nothing’s gone wrong and why not keep it that way?”
– Bob Hicok, “One of those things we say…”
Blaze searing eye-corner
fierce rupture
a hazard of blades
we two, entangled –
emotion dug deep and flung far –
architectonic
like the causes of weather
complexity systems
large beyond measure
on any scale
insinuated within
spaces we intimately share
archaic wounds – a butterfly’s wing –
tempest stress to tumultuous effect
(deep dug, far flung)
we two, engangled
emotive amygdalas in action
safe love, a hazard of blades
art from utterance (orality + literacy)
SERRY
What is said,
This moment,
This word,
Is real, torn, squeezed,
Extruded
From heart and breath
And world.
This sly scribble,
A snake that curves
And curls tight,
Brain deep.
My thoughts
In your voice,
A mask,
A masking.
Laid down,
A trap, cunning gin
Tongue-tying,
Strident
(Though even whispered).
Time bomb.
We sing in chords,
In chorus.
Drum on flesh and earth
Together,
Drum with feet,
Drum with tongues.
Together ululate,
A stampede, a flock.
Syncopate pulse,
We merge.
Never this
String of thought,
Tugged out to tie senses,
Alone, locked on paths
With no cessation.
A spell, an enchanting,
Mazed: ink and electron
Dancing grim tango.
Entangled, entangled
In mind or mouth,
Striving to know escape
Or to know belonging.
The mute language of skies,
The sing of cloud dissolving.
Being nothing
But ourselves
We dive down
And drown.
What i mean is
What eye can mean
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