Posted on March 17th, 2008 by bkerr
From Market Ideology and the Myths of Web 2.0 by Trebor Scholz in First Monday Vol. 13 No. 3:
The language of Web 2.0 is a placeholder for several agendas. It burns the torches of 1960s–style rebellion, a “business revolution” of self–declared anarchists who frown upon authority and control as bad and deem openness as always [...]
Posted on March 6th, 2008 by bkerr
Party like it’s 1674! Paradise Lost (book II, ll. 910 — 920):
Into this wilde Abyss,
The Womb of nature and perhaps her Grave,
Of neither Sea, nor Shore, nor Air, nor Fire,
But all these in thir pregnant causes mixt
Confus’dly, [...]
Posted on March 5th, 2008 by bkerr
From The people, yes by Carl Sandburg. There’s more where this came from, but you’ll have to go to the library and see for yourself:
The steel mill sky is alive.
The fire breaks white and zigzag
shot on a gun-metal gloaming.
Man is a long time coming.
Man will yet win.
Posted on March 3rd, 2008 by bkerr
From Works and Days by old Hesiod. Some things never change:
For the gods keep hidden from men the means of life. Else you would easily do work enough in a day to supply you for a full year even without working; soon would you put away your rudder over the smoke, and the fields worked [...]
Posted on March 2nd, 2008 by bkerr
First in a series. This from The Voice of the Machines: An Introduction to the Twentieth Century by Gerald Stanley Lee (published 1906 — find it @ Project Gutenberg):
“The poet of the new movement shall not be discovered talking with the doctors, or defining art in the schools, nor shall he be seen at first [...]
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