tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post7870141638789009557..comments2024-02-12T23:25:09.583-08:00Comments on Overweening Generalist: Conspiracy Theories and Ezra Poundmichaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-89200583265392924712012-12-03T00:07:50.325-08:002012-12-03T00:07:50.325-08:00That's - seriously - the best artwork of Pound...That's - seriously - the best artwork of Pound I've ever seen. What I mean is: I like it more than anything I've seen. Brilliant! I love it!<br /><br />Thanks!michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-27209361122994143852012-12-02T23:20:44.953-08:002012-12-02T23:20:44.953-08:00I did a portrait of the great Ezra Pound which I w...I did a portrait of the great Ezra Pound which I would like to use to express my thoughts. http://www.flickr.com/photos/cainandtoddbenson/6301900345/in/photostreamCain and Todd Bensonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03773004323501699535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-12615877658012960432011-07-21T14:46:13.075-07:002011-07-21T14:46:13.075-07:00Odd: see the mass of anecdotes about Breton as aut...Odd: see the mass of anecdotes about Breton as autocrat. Ez admired DADA, and Picabia was for Ez a great Dadaist, Picabia probably influenced by Duchamp and Satie. Better minds than mine consider Picabia as part of surrrrealism...common tactic here: reductio ad absurdum, which RAW sez was a main rhetorical device for Illuminatus!...<br /><br />Ez seems to have considered Gorgias as a Dadaist: see Kulchur, p.120 and 129; see same book, p.134 for Ez and Wyndham Lewis's BLAST as dada and Picabia, "localization of sensibility"...<br /><br />RAW seemed to imply surrealist expressions were marked by the carrying of a surplus of Shannon-like info, its from bits.<br /><br />Pulling back from the microscope and looking around the room: the nonrational methods of changing other people's minds seems woefully underappreciated by the "people" themselves, and 'tis a pity, if only for what Chomsky terms "intellectual self-defense."michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13526042582094867513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-42399728287114163272011-07-21T10:54:19.371-07:002011-07-21T10:54:19.371-07:00Pound saw his friend Picabia as a major influence ...Pound saw his friend Picabia as a major influence on the Surrealists.Eric Wagnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04312033917401203598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-8049163418716047482011-07-21T10:03:52.766-07:002011-07-21T10:03:52.766-07:00The juxtaposition of two seemingly unrelated image...The juxtaposition of two seemingly unrelated images interested the Surrealists. Do you know if Pound had any influence on them?<br /><br />.Cleveland Okie (Tom Jackson)https://www.blogger.com/profile/07810736442596736041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1178284085080580526.post-38268716597916241452011-07-21T07:46:17.422-07:002011-07-21T07:46:17.422-07:00I find it interesting how such tender compassion s...I find it interesting how such tender compassion sits side by side with lunatic hate in the Rock Drill and Thrones Cantos.<br /><br />I've taught the Cantos three times, the last time five years ago. I haven't really looked at it much since then, although I've taught a few isolated Cantos. For pleasure I find myself reading Zukofsky.<br /><br />I do wonder what Bob Wilson would have made of our current economic mise en scene.Eric Wagnerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04312033917401203598noreply@blogger.com