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Here's a podcast of my last Publishers Weekly column, A Whip to Beat Us With : Jim C. Hines’s e-books are marketed both through a big publisher and solo. The books that were re-priced by Amazon were his solo titles—unagented, and unrepresented by a major publisher.
Cory Doctorow is a practicing post-modernist / singularist in the sense that he applies the abstract in his books: released under the Creative Commons License, opening the novels and stories up to the crowd-sourced post-modern extancy. by Apr 6
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Modernist literature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Modernist literature is sub-genre of Modernism , a predominantly European movement beginning in the early 20th century that was characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional aesthetic forms. Representing the radical shift in cultural sensibilities surrounding World War I , modernist literature struggled with the new realm of subject matter brought about by an increasingly industrialized and globalized world. In its earliest incarnations, modernism fostered a utopian spirit, stimulated by innovations happening in the fields of anthropology , psychology , philosophy , political theory , and psychoanalysis . Writers such as Ezra Pound and other poets of the Imagist movement characterized this exuberant spririt, rejecting the sentiment and discursiveness typical of Romanticism and Victorian literature for poetry that instead favored precision of imagery and clear, sharp language.
Thomas Stearns Eliot OM (September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965) was a playwright, literary critic, and an important English-language poet of the 20th century. [ 3 ] Although he was born an American , he moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 (at age 25) and was naturalised as a British subject in 1927 at age 39. The poem that made his name, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock —started in 1910 and published in Chicago in 1915—is seen as a masterpiece of the modernist movement, and was followed by some of the best-known poems in the English language, including Gerontion (1920), The Waste Land (1922), The Hollow Men (1925), Ash Wednesday (1930), and Four Quartets (1945). [ 4 ] He is also known for his seven plays, particularly Murder in the Cathedral (1935). He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. [ 5 ]
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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.
Stowe Boyd - /Message - Are Blogs Dying?
Beyond The Beyond
“China’s Internet culture is fascinating. The Web is where all the new Chinese memes are born, where celebrities—for better or for worse—are created, where new writers hone their skills, and where songs become hits. The Internet has become the crucible of contemporary Chinese culture, and is the de facto public sphere of Chinese life, where ideas are exchanged, often with remarkable candor.Dead Media Beat: blog search | Beyond The Beyond
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/rip_worlds_greatest_blogsearch.php “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.”
*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. “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”? Well, she’s this multi-ethnic, multi-culti young London deejay; an Egyptian Filipino Briton named “Sara Abdel-Hamid.”)))
Retro-futurist techno hyperstasis | Beyond The Beyond
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