Post-Industrial World and Poetry

             
                                          
                                     
Natura naturans (the Coleridgean ongoing) lies outside us;
and yet we are part of it, and more and more are changing it to   
meet our perceived needs.  If we get there, the post-industrial  
world will find us more intimately connected to machines than we
have ever been.  So much so, actually, the industrial world will  
seem ancient to us.  Imagine weather control, an Edenic planet,  
immortal or nearly immortal bodies, brains far superior to even  
the best now.  Homo sapiens will likely be discarded in favor
of a more appropriate name.  Will poem-making disappear?  No.    
Will there be poem-making contests between humans and robots?    
If you have been paying attention to Blogger word verifications,
there already are.  The Flarf, then, and Conceptual modes are  
precursors.  Each, however, while able to accommodate varying
approaches, is specialized.  Practitioners have an affinity for
what they do.                                                 
                                                                  
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Had planned to write a lot more, but between my body concerns/   
nothing.                                                       
                                                    
                                             
                                                   
                                                   
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