Fenollosa Pound Olson and the Chinese written character

 "The first was Ernest Fenollosa's provocative essay 'The Chinese Wriiten Character as a Medium for Poetry.' He found the Pound-edited text of the essay in the latter's book Instigations and excitedly copied out its main arguments into his notebook that June. Fenollosa's account of the exhaustion of poetic qualities in modern discourse resulting from a … Continue reading Fenollosa Pound Olson and the Chinese written character

Robert Anton Wilson: further musings by steve fly

 Robert Anton Wilson: further musings by steve fly Robert Anton Wilson spent over 50 years producing original thoughts and ideas, criss-cossing academic boundaries like a flock og migrating birds. All-at-once an independent scholar, social critic, comedian, playwright, poet and novelist. RAW lived through WWII, the cold war, the 1960s counter culture explosion, the digital technological … Continue reading Robert Anton Wilson: further musings by steve fly

Shannon’s Mathematical Theory of Communication Applied to DNA Sequencing

If we could have James Joyce and Robert Anton Wilson in the mix we might get close to something very really close to 'the tale of the tribe'. With a focus on RAW's book 'Coincidance' in which he defines DNA based information theory through a Joycean measure of the redundancy of information, poetry as information, … Continue reading Shannon’s Mathematical Theory of Communication Applied to DNA Sequencing