[b]Jan Mieszkowski
McLuhan: The medium is the message.
Debord: The medium will have been the message.
Baudrillard: I’ll have a medium coke and fries.[/b]
Obviously: Baudrillard. Only he preferred Dr Pepper.
[b]How To Perfect Your Writing
- Delete the extraneous citations
- Delete the weak efforts at satire
- Delete the self-congratulatory asides
- Admire the blank page[/b]
Or here the blank post.
Descartes: I think therefore I am
Kant: I think I probably am
Schelling: Perhaps I can’t even think
Nietzsche: I can’t even
Of course one of them went insane.
Tweeting is theory.
Deleting is praxis.
Not counting those [these days] who are outright banned.
American novel: I want to be a British novel!
British novel: I want to be a French novel!
French novel: I want to be a Russian novel!
Russian novel: Thank God I’m not a German novel!
Let’s make sense of this.
[b]A Brief History of Poetry
- A, B, C, D
- AAA BBB CCC DDD
- ABAB CDCD
- ABBA
- AC⚡️DC[/b]
Lyrically as it were.