Jim Andrews
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Works in Victoria Canada

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BIO
Jim Andrews does http://vispo.com . He is a poet-programmer and audio guy. His work explores the new media possibilities of poetry, and seeks to synthesize the poetical with other arts and media.
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DISCUSSION

online music


I'm wondering if very many people have quite a few mp3's in their collection
that they downloaded for free from web sites where bands make their own
music available, or from sites that distribute music by the musician's
permission. What are your favorite urls for such work?

Also, do you listen to much internet radio? Which stations? What are the
urls?

Notice I'm not asking you to implicate yourself in anything illegal.

Thanks,
ja
http://vispo.com/audio

DISCUSSION

Mexican politics and media


An eminently readable article on contemporary Mexican politics and media:
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17320 .
'The Morning Quickie'
By Alma Guillermoprieto

DISCUSSION

Re: ihearyouthinkingbutistillcantfeelyou


> http://www.livejournal.com/users/lab404/28149.html

"mind
Of course, the brain is a machine and a computer -- everything in classical
neurology is correct. But our mental processes, which constitute our being
and life, are not just abstract and mechanical, but personal, as well --
and, as such, involve not just classifying and categorising, but continual
judging and feeling also. If this is missing, we become computer-like...
And, by the same token, if we delete feeling and judging, the personal, from
the cognitive sciences, we reduce them to something [defective] -- and we
reduce our apprehension of the concrete and real.
- oliver sacks"

nice quote, curt. i agree with what sacks says here.

i would add that it seems very likely that our subjectivity, "our being and
life", our "feeling and judging", all this is done within the capabilities
of the brain, and the capabilities of the brain are bounded by the
capabilities of machines. just because our processes are bounded within the
capabilities of machines does not make them any less valuable or any less
human.

just as the idea that we descend from the primordial slime does not diminish
us. nor would it even necessarily involve a denial of god or a denial of the
involvement of god and humanity. though particulars like, oh, women
springing from adam's rib are out the window.

ja

DISCUSSION

montfort on 'bad machine made of words'


here is a review by nick montfort (one of the editors of the 'new media
reader') of a piece of interactive fiction:
http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/Review/index.cfm?article6

the interactive fiction reviewed is called 'a bad machine made of words' and
is a 1998 work by dan shiovitz.

i had run across the machine before, but had not been able to make heads or
tails of it. montfort's review is both useful and intriguing.

um so is http://www.poemsthatgo.com/gallery/fall2003/bmch/about.htm

ja

DISCUSSION

netzwissenschaft


it's back. it's big. what happened to it? is it historical now? i think it's
as it was before it disappeared. it's grether's links:
http://netzwissenschaft.org/kuenst.htm