Cory Doctorow’s craphound.com » News. Social Networking and Theory. Modernist literature. Literary Modernism has its origins in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, mainly in Europe and North America.
Modernism is characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional styles of poetry and verse. Modernists experimented with literary form and expression, adhering to the modernist maxim to "Make it new. " The modernist literary movement was driven by a desire to overturn traditional modes of representation and express the new sensibilities of their time. [ 1 ] [ edit ] Introduction In the 1880s a strand of thinking began to assert that it was necessary to push aside previous norms entirely, instead of merely revising past knowledge in light of contemporary techniques. Friedrich Nietzsche was another major precursor of modernism [ ] with a philosophy in which psychological drives, specifically the 'Will to power', were more important than facts, or things. . [ edit ] Origins of Modernist literature [ edit ] Continuation: 1920s and 1930s.
T. S. Eliot. Universal Leonardo: Leonardo da Vinci online › Welcome to Univer. Stowe Boyd - /Message - Are Blogs Dying? Marshall Kirkpatrick recently griped about Ask.com’s blog search service closing down. Marshall Kirkpatrick, R.I.P. World’s Greatest BlogsearchSearching the blogs, scanning the posts, feed-powered search: there used to be more startups offering blogsearch than there are characters in a Twitter message today. But no more. Today blogsearch engines fade away all the time and almost no one notices.But when Ask.com shuttered its blogsearch engine this month, I noticed. It made me sad, because it was the best blogsearch engine in the whole world. Bruce Sterling, who noticed Kirkpatrick’s howling when I hadn’t, suggests that it’s not just the difficulty of competing with Google blog search, but that blogs are dying as a medium: Bruce Sterling, Dead Media Beat: blog searchWhy does ‘almost no one notice’ that blogsearch enterprises are fading away?
There is certainly something to what Bruce has to say. We’ll see a new logical layering. Beyond The Beyond. Dead Media Beat: blog search. “Searching the blogs, scanning the posts, feed-powered search: there used to be more startups offering blogsearch than there are characters in a Twitter message today.
But no more. Today blogsearch engines fade away all the time and almost no one notices.” (((Why does ‘almost no one notice’ that blogsearch enterprises are fading away? Because nobody notices that blogs are fading away. The technical ecosystem around blogs is disintegrating, being folded into other structures. (((When people hear me predict rapid mortality in digital media, they somehow imagine we are going back to the stability of analog media. Retro-futurist techno hyperstasis. *This Simon Reynolds essay is great.
I feel I must annotate the whole thing. Oh wait wait wait — I have to appropriate it in toto — that’s it. *Reynolds speaks: I noticed a curious equivocation in the press release for Contact, Love, Want, Have “While on the face of it the album seems to traverse a number of retro-futurist styles, including dubstep, UK funky and garage, 80s synth pop and computer game soundtracks, it remains totally contemporary, coherent and focused, making the idea of restraining [Ikonika] to a single genre irrelevant” (((So, who is “Ikonika”? That sleight of rhetoric struck me as emblematic for the music of Now (not just the nuum-not-nuum/nu-IDM/nuum-IDM sector, but electronic dance music as a whole, and possibly most left-field music–but that would be too big a topic to address at the present). (((Simon is very big on what he calls the “nuum” or “continuum,” which is his concept of a long-term, slowly evolving, techno dance-music ultragenre.
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