D I U e m n s of an a i c g v r i e 1 9 i n r p a c t r i i y t o y n s 18 november 94 "cars are elitist too..." * _The World, the Word, and the Future_, a conference sponsored by the New York State Writer's Institute in Albany, opened with a session entitled _Poetry and History: Survival of the Sullen Art_. It is not clear why in a conference on the FUTURE poetry gets tagged with history. Robert Creeley was there. The other panelists, Carolyn Forche, Sharon Olds, and Hayden Carruth where not, though all spoke, some at considerable length. Carolyn Forche opined that the electronic media might change consciousness. She feared that mental states were crawling off and dying out like animal species. Sharon Olds said she was a mouse person. She read poem about women's breast and at revealed that her desire was to suck them like a baby, gurgling and cooing, wearing diapers. This poem continued for some time. Hayden Carruth read a poem that he alleged had to do with history, declared that he was an old man, and that old men need frequently to pee, then disappeared from the stage during much of the remaining discussions. Creeley, found himself in a deep hole. The history of poetry was shriveled up behind, the future of poetry seemed as bleak as the future of the Republic at large (how could it seem any bleaker). He was embarrassed. I or I was embarrassed. Faced with the evidence of the degradation of his art, he performed gracefully, but the question had been so abused that it could not be retrieved even by the application of intelligence and knowledge. The discussion with the audience was predictably dominated by technophobes who excuse themselves by attacking anyone who uses this democratic medium as elitists. Creeley held up one of his own books and announced, "This is elitist." Judith Johnson, the moderator of the panel, offered the most purely hopeful evidence for poetry of the future, a poem spoken by her daughter at the age of three. Thus, wearily, Albert or Hubert, on the road Subj: all i could... The only thing we have to fear is the social body (the gov't) itself. The liver of social dis-ease/consciousness is corroded with conformity. Firstly, the disease manifests itself in the cell structure/infrastructure of the arterial flow. Thence, clotting, clotting involves cellular processes, congregate motions and fluctuations creating physical and social mythologies in the blood stream. The structure is mythologized to the extent that it is worshipped and repelled at the same instant. Do not deny that your bodily processes have not in some way been manipulated or engineered for the benefit of an other ulterior/situative caretaker. This situation will always or at least define and redefine these "caretakers" by the very nature of the manipulation of the anatomy or "social body". --er Playlist for "Nubian Roots" 90.1 KZSU, Stanford Friday 06:00-09:00 November 4, 1994 ************************************************ DJ Cat ************************************************ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Artist Track Album ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Don Cherry Pettiford Bridge Multi Kulti 2. Sun Ra The Others in Their Fate in a Pleasant Mood/ World When the Sun Comes Out 3. Sun Ra The Rain Maker " " 4. Frank Lowe Decision in Paradise Decision in Paradise 5. Ernest Dawkins Goldinger South Side Street Songs 6. Rodney Kendrick Totem Dance World Dance 7. David Murray/ Essential Soul The Real Deal Milford Graves 8. Andrew Cyrille Metamusian Stomp Metamusian Stomp 9. Dewey Redman Funcity Dues Coincide 10. Reggie Workman Estelle's Theme Summit Conference 11. Betty Carter Lover Man Feed the Fire 12. Geri Allen Trio RTC Twenty One 13. William Hooker [Prism] Radiation 14. John Coltrane Out of this World Live in Seattle ************************************************** DJ Glen Solomon ************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Artist Track Album ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 15. Anthony Braxton Arkanthe Trio (London 1993) Evan Parker/ Paul Rutherford 16. Hank Mobley No Room For Squares No Room For Squares 17. Andrew Hill New Monastery Point of Departure 18. Pat Metheny P to 2 Tolerance for Noise 19. Roland Kirk The Black&Crazy Blues The Inflated Tears 20. World Sax 4-tet Su Mama Ah Zuma Metamorphosis 21. Sausage Temporary Phase Riddles R Abound Tonight 22. Charles Mingus Profile of Jackie Pithocanthropus Erectus 23. Chris Whitley Poison Girl Kick the Stone 24. The Extra Malevolent City Scope Infidelity Glenn's 25. C. Anderson/ My Protagonist Kim You're the Guy I Want to W. Burroughs Share My Money With 26. Uncle Tupelo Black Eye March 16-20 1992 27. Azail Snail Fumarole/Fumarole Fumarole Rising Rising 28. Drag King Back Burner Jazz Monster 29. Sebadoh Magnetic Coil Bake Sale PEOPLE GET READY Dept.: MACBRIDE ROUND TABLE ON COMMUNICATION Africa Faces the Information Highway. Seventh MacBride Round Table: Tunis, Tunisia, March 16th to 18th 1995. The information superhighway heralds the next revolution in communications. As the USA, Europe and Japan pursue their plans to create the most advanced communications systems yet developed, researchers, journalists and others ask if the superhighway will be accessible only by wealthier countries and groups, by-passing developing nations and poorer communities. The Tunisian Association of Communication (ATUCOM) is organizing the Seventh Annual MacBride Round Table, from the 16th to the 18th of March in Tunis. Its central theme is the implications for Africa of the global information superhighway. Topics covered will include: - The Superhighway infrastructure, the main actors, its regulation and control; - Social Objectives of the Superhighway, to include teletraining, teleworking, teleservices, telemedicine, interactive multi-media; - The extension of the superhighway to different regions, Africa, Arab, Magreb, etc.; - African Priorities, including technology requirements, investment, appropriate economic applications, horizontal communication, local initiatives ...; - Ethical and legal aspects, including human rights, intellectual property ... The Round Table will comprise both presentation sessions and group workshops, and also welcomes contributions on broader communications issues, including media empowerment in women's and grass-roots movements, the safety of journalists, human rights in communications, the relevance of the UN Social Summit in Copenhagen. e-mail: 76002551@vax1.dcu.ie * * * * * * * Subj: yrho-W9UK THANKS FOR NEW D.I.U.--THOUGH on some level it's getting predictable in terms of the polemical posturing of the personae therein included. For instance, SA (sally andrews? bruce's wife?) in his or her attack on "isms" at one point writes the "liberal whaleocracy and decadent punkers have made Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell into a hegelian thesis-antithesis-shell game." Though this line is very funny in a way, it also underlines the severe limits of such forms of polemics--in the first place to attribute the agency of Blake into shell-game onto 'liberals' and 'punks' is really rather SNOOTY and SMUGLY SUPERIOR, isn't it? In the second place, and MORE SERIOUSLY, this notion that somehow Hegel's dialectics is/are instrinsically more like a mere snake-oil huckstur sidewalk shell game than Blake's "marriage" is doubtful at best. And the absolute removal at which Mr(s). S.A. assumes Blake's poetry to be from the "corrupting" influence of schematic dialectical thought is dubious. Sure, we don't HAVE TO READ poetry as an "ism" as a SCHOOL, as primarily meaningful etc--it is the gestures and drama and the sense of poetry as enactment that may concern us but at the same time one must recognize that Blake can be seen as both a "structuralist" and a "poststructuralist" and that such a way of reading him (or other poetries), though it's good to call it into question, is certainly not ALWAYS and ONLY the project of decadent punk WHALE_OLOGY... --xc Readlist, Last Days of the White Race Radiofree North America, 18 november 94 Haiti is an oral culture. There is a long tradition of proverbs, jokes, riddles and stories which people have been telling around the evening fire for centuries. JD wrote: : Maya Deren's book, "Divine Horsemen" is one of the best books : on the subject. J, I agree that this is an important and useful book. In my first few times of teaching this course I used the Deren book and the classic HAITIAN VOODOO by Metreaux as texts. But Metreaux is too dry for most students and Deren's books emphasize ceremonial and possession too much for my taste and doesn't do enough with HEALING, which, on my view, is the central fact of Haitian Voodoo. However, Mystic Fire Video has made a film called THE DIVINE HORSEMEN, using film short by Deren in the 1950s and it has a voice over reading extensively from the book. I do use the film in my class. Best, BC I have recently being reading 'Hiawatha' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and drawing mental comparisons with Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales' which I was compelled to read while in high school in Jamaica. As I recall, 'Canterbury Tales' was the first major literary work in the (middle) English language, hence its significance (why it turned up in a Jamaican curriculum had everything to do with colonialism, no doubt). 'Hiawatha' was an oral epic that existed amongst American Indians - particularly the Ojibway, in varying versions, and was probably their first and major literary work in their language also. Apart from those superficial points, the similarities end there. Hiawatha is stupendous in the strength of its imagery, its rhythm and construction (some controversy here) and in its content. In only the first few chapters I had found a wealth of information - describing their universe - describing the creation - describing how to find the basic food and shelter for life - describing the good features of marriage and courtship, - of honour and respect among friends - of peaceful coexistence amongst fellow men and tribes - the philosophy whereby man is a part of a spiritual universe and is beholden therefore to treat with the same respect everything in his world - animate and inanimate, as he would accord his fellow man In contrast Canterbury Tales was a string of lewd and rowdy tales in very poor taste, not worth repeating except in loose company. Would anyone care to contribute their thoughts on this? --P.L. DIU sporadically from thelogic of snowflakes ( post-Ayler ) cf2785@albnyvms.bitnet