tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post1807308819127604664..comments2024-03-19T21:14:01.007-07:00Comments on The Compass Rose: The Rosetta StoneCurtis Favillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-84353601597125682112012-11-25T03:05:03.072-08:002012-11-25T03:05:03.072-08:00As a computer science major, the languages used in...As a computer science major, the languages used in programming and formatting languages, is a result of a few non-NWO based reasons. First of all, like any tool, it's specifications are exacting and duplicated across the world. Similarly, how would civilizations rise if not for a few standardization practices? Also, this leaves out languages like LISP, XML, and other flexible languages that allow you to determine the vocabulary and verbs used in its expression. <br /><br />Secondly, computers are simple machines with complicated structures, You almost have to speak to it like a child, since it can't dynamically adapt to language very well. A small constrained vocabulary is necessary, in which you build on the foundation, bigger and more intricate grammar. <br /><br />You can only understand me through the mere incidence that we have a small and constrained language (relatively) which enables us to know the same nouns, verbs, and all the other linguistic errata that makes communication possible.j3whttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06973538607665800244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-18506439620624562432011-11-25T14:45:37.686-08:002011-11-25T14:45:37.686-08:00"Any poetry which does not enter into or part..."Any poetry which does not enter into or partake of this interzone of flux and shifting apprehension, risks being prosaic and doesn't deserve the name."<br /><br />I like this, and I've been lately wondering about the nature of poetry consciousness precisely along these lines myself.Physicist/philosopher Michael Polyani taught that we seem to know more than language can convey: that in a sense we know before we can even begin to verbalize. Nothing better describes this "interzone" nature of poetry. If I can read a poem like a recipe, it's just not poetry: there needs to be the the "abstracts" (as you aptly call them) from which it really comes. Italian poet Ungaretti speaks of the "mystery" the poem asks us to decipher. I think you mean the same thing.<br /><br />I'm not sure, however, that "code" means the same thing as "mystery". You seem to talking about the poet-machine synergy celebrated by media poets. Advocates of digital poetry often talk of the essentially processual, dynamic & information-rich properties of all programmable & networked writing.I'm thinking particularly of Charles Bernstein's "HTML Series of poems.<br /><br />Are you celebrating the potential of HTML code for the digital poetics it produces?Conrad DiDiodatohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18312831623791642286noreply@blogger.com