Alma Matrix
Swimming
amniotic in a Guttenberg Dreamland all soaking wet
in a Post Literate, Neo Oral whelm so permeate that it’s
impossible to define damp
let alone dry.
Or, say: I am canary in a cage
watching our Fading
Mind Shaft
End Days never the less:
“Long Live The Bookocracy.
Tweeting. Twittering.
Thesis: Film is the perfect capitalist commodification of the vital,
dymanic, and communal arts of live theatre. Discuss?
A colleague
posts this on Facebook because he
can, and generates
a string of converse
action: mind on a
screen, sure, but
oral & Hyde
Park in
spirit . Soap box at
my finger tips.
My students
are massively more media literate
and tech savvy than
me and I recall the
construction magnate on TV confessing he
didn’t know how to read but could
succeed in a literate
world by
subterfuge.
Faking it.
Helen
Keller never saw a word in her life or heard
one never the less
graduated Harvard,
though they called it Radcliffe at the
time.
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My
student’s are way older
than I am. Never the
less they arrive
at
8 a.m. with
Laptops and I-Pads
and Tablets and photo
phones and
look
to me for instruction-for-credit.
While I
inform them on
“Fiction: an Introduction,”
they vet
what I
say on-line
varieties of
literary experience before I
finish a paragraph
because they can.
Some
sneak-videoize me &
my charisma surreptitious
to send off
to
buddies at Macalester,
say, or Hampshire—other
liberal
schools.
Look: be here now
(school and be schooled)
Can you see us now?
Much
older than me—media
literate and tech
savvy like
anything.
“Here,” I
say, power
pointing for emphasis".
“10
salient
characteristics of Fiction.”
Remember
them.
Why remember them when they can engrave them to their fb pages?
ReplyDeleteExactly. Irony, Lisa. Sarcasm even.
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