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  • ‘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…

  • ‘Mirror in De Buurvrouw’ by CHU

    ‘Mirror in De Buurvrouw’ by CHU

    My good friend CHU came to Amsterdam and decorated the wall of a local bar very close to Dam square in the center, called De Buurvrouw. The decorations work on many levels and from many different perspectives, not least the name ‘Mirror in De Buurvrouw’ being a riff on the lyric and title of the…