To: webartery@yahoogroups.com
From: mez <netwurker@hotkey.net.au>
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 14:12:32 +1100
Subject: Re:  The Digital Writer

At 08:17 PM 24/02/03 -0500, jim andrews wrote:
>Joel is 

joel is
[read= subject is X d.fined]
[read=
frozen.concept.s(h)immering.via.reduction.+.sentenced.2.streamlined.program_
matic.death]


>trying to generalize in a very broad way from far too little experience 

too little experience
[read= ab.(no)so(u)loot(ing the guts + draining extensions.*)ism breeds
blinkered tite.ness]


>and the
>direction of his generalizations are, as usual, without conception of the
types of depth one
>finds in interesting computer art. 

directions of generalisations
[read= narrowing of tan.gen(e)tal methods in2 FixedFrameRating of
convers(e)ational parameters]
[read= comprehension.death.by.the.proximal +
appealing.2.efflorescence.abstractions (ie _depth_)]


>Primarily because he has so little experience of such work
>and, additionally, conceives of "depth" and the "linguistically
imaginative" in such a way that

little experience
[read= gradings.of.experiental.worth via B.oxe(n strength + blindness
filtering)dFormations 
[read= b.locks and sta(gnan)tic
growth.in.strip(p)ed.n.masking.discussion.tights]


>can hardly fail to miss the depth and linguistic imagination of truly new
work.

truly new work:
[read= (idiot s)avant(ism) labelling + crossing all tees with a
supposed.new.eye]


>Here is the post of Joel:

[read= concrete.affirm(ed)ation.of.boundaried.state.ments]
[read= evidencing.by.proof[read N bled via concept_linkage]]


>"A digital writer is one who spends more time dealing with technical
problems than writing".
>
>If artists cannot find the depth in the problems they face, then they are
simply 'technical
>problems'. If artists can find the depth in the problems they face, then
the problems acquire
>expressive power.

if, then
[read= ex.press.ion.via.directives]
[u.should|will.be.directed.2!!]


>But this is like other things in our lives, isn't it. A writer or artist
spends his or her life
>in a continual revision and expansion of poetics. Some stuff makes it in
to the structure. Other
>stuff just has no place in it.

revision/expansion/poetics/structure

structure
structure
structure
structure
structure

		structure
		structure
		structure
		structure


		<		-->	[left.fieldism]

					labelism

>I visit the work and think about it. I don't simply comment on commentary.

I visit
I don't
[read= subject is I d.fined]
[read= freeze-dried.N-ceptions +
purr.ception.thru.self-shelved|limited(var)parameters]


>I am not the only one, Talan, to have questioned the artistic value of the
results, over the
>last few years, of the extant approaches to  hypertextual literature. This
is not news to you,
>surely.

I am not the only 1
[read= SciMethod + ma(turity)jority.validation.techniques]


>I do not enjoy arguments for the sake of arguing. I am mostly a lover, not
a fighter. But there
>are certain things that I find very hard to do. One of them is lie about
what I really think
>about literature and ideas and the quality and relevance of expression.
Because it matters to
>me.

to lie about
[read= re(N)cursion.2.truth.vs.deception.s(c)ales]


>I would love nothing better than to read and experience 'hypertext' works
that find the depth of
>the problems faced therein.

I would love
[read= emotionality.re(inforcing sincerity via
sentiments)ferencing.establisment]


 
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