Notes and Quotes: New Media Poetics (Memmott on page 293)

Notes and Quotes

Talan Memmott (beginning on page 293)

The context in which any given term is used provides the framework for its definition, however tentative or temporary. The terms are conveniences—(perhaps) for the sake of argument (293).

Because digital poetry cannot be reduced to a genre of poetry, we must begin to consider the applied poetics of the individual practitioner (294).

The poetics of this piece, its conceptualization and facilitation, are more important qualities than the poetry it generates. The intertainment is more potent than the entertainment (300).

Interactivity is a slippery concept (301).

Because the grammatological aspects or signifying harmonics of digital poetry are not universal, it is essential to understand each digital poetry application as an environment or poetic microculture with its own grammar and customs (302).

Does digital poetry have the power, not to define thought but to cause thinking? (303).

We not only read the text but assist in its de.scription, or ex.position (304).

To an extent, the idea of taxonomy itself is contrary to the realities of digital practice (304).

There are no guidelines for creative cultural practice through applied technology, and it is therefore up to practitioners to develop their own (anti)methods (305).