3rd ANNUAL NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 26 :: PETER MILNE GREINER on RICHARD BRAUTIGAN and THE SINGULARITY
[box] All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace I like to think (and the sooner the better!) of a cybernetic meadow where mammals and computers live together in mutually programming harmony like pure water touching clear sky. I like to think (right now, please!) of a cybernetic forest filled with pines and
2nd Annual NAPOMO 30/30/30 :: DAY 18 :: ELIZA SWANN ON BERNADETTE MAYER
Becoming Aware of Genuine Being-Duty: Thoughts On Bernadette Mayer When I think about Bernadette Mayer I think about flowers, I think about fucking, I think about a good joke. I think about children. I think about words like propagate, roseate, generate,
AWESOME CREATORS :: OPENINGS : THRIVING AT THE LIMEN OF CREATIVITY AND TRANSCENDENCE
li·men; n. pl. li·mens or lim·i·na 1. The threshold of a physiological or psychological response. 2. The external opening of a canal; an entrance. limi·nal adj. [line] I consider it a really good sign that my gut impulse on starting to write up this introduction to OPENINGS is to begin with the word,
Community CoCo / U-Topian Rhizome PARTICIPATORY PROMPT: on the co-evolution of language/music
In which we reach out to our community to engage in the making of Collaborative Content beyond our Topic (place-bound) limitations, to invite you to participate Rhizomatically in the conversation/dialogue that happens here on site. Responses will be catalogued and posted in a follow up feature, and potentially (if you are speedy) read from at the event itself. Please email all responses to editors@exitstrata.com or respond in the comment section below. Thanks for playing! What makes human communication different from that of animals? Where does music fit in? How can our poetic or other verbal creation be representative of a more essential form of human communication, reminding us of our linguistic origins?
Announcing: The AWESOME CREATOR Series
Who is an awesome creator? Why... YOU are! It's still Poetry Month, and we at Exit Strata have been largely focused on that discipline, with our invitational 30/30/30 Inspiration, Community, Tradition posts. However, we want to stress that we love and are inspired by *all* creative disciplines -- in fact, that this big love is why we are here. The primary intention behind using our virtual home as a portal for not only for content but for people is to bring together creators from all mediums: a reminder that we are more alike than we are different.