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  • Mark Pesce and the ‘Nextbillionseconds’

    I view Mark’s latest explorations and insight as possibly the greatest collection of information for the tribe. The full Global Village. Please take a look and read for yourself. Mark has a kind of futurism that is firmly rooted in scientific and mathematical data, yet has the excitment and imagination you might expect from a…

  • ‘Marshall McLuhan strikes back’ and ‘the medium is the message’

      More Than Ever, the Medium Is the Message: How You Can Celebrate Marshall McLuhan’s 100th  “This is the 100th anniversary of McLuhan’s birth, and there’s been a year-long global celebration of the man — and his messages. All of this merry-making culminates in a conference and concert in Toronto November 7 – 10th.” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/julia-moulden/marshall-mcluhan_b_1065015.html…

  • Some Joyce/Pound ‘News’ items…

          The Politics of Modernist Poetics: Ezra Pound, Amy Lowell and Imagism: Imagism was the poetry of directness and distillation championed by Ezra Pound and Amy Lowell in the first years of the 20th century, reacting against the flowery verse of late Romanticism and urging poets to look to earlier models—like Sappho in…

  • NAUGHTIES DECADE 2001-2011

    DECADE 2001-2011   Table of Contents DECADE 2001-2011 INTRODUCTION 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 FLY’S WEB CATCH INTRODUCTION Hi I finally got around to posting this, it’s been hanging around for a while. I hope you’ll forgive my errors, any feedback will be well received. So friends…which events seem…

  • Race Riots and Revolution in the UK

    Hi, The riots in the UK earlier this month (aug. 6-10, 2011) have provoked a number of textual reactions and experiments from me that I present here in a mish-mash-up style. Typically I have the beginnings of lots of different ideas, poems, screenplays, on-going research and rants. I might need some help editing some of…