![]() In Ceasefire, Andrew Robinson reflects on Walter Benjamin’s ideas of art’s aura in the age of turbo-capitalism, asking what ‘political art’ might look like today, in an era of rapid technological change. To make sure the poems are being surveilled, join ‘ CC Your Emails to Theresa May Day.’ Add an Archive of the Now poem (sample text or audio link) to every email you send for a day: imagine whether your NSA/GCHQ alert goes up or down.“The idea here is that if lots of people add suspicious words to their messages, the world’s intel agencies will be too busy with spurious input that they will have to give up reading it all… You might want to sprinkle some of these words into your X-headers for a little fun.” William Knowles.Search Archive of the Now sample texts for NSA keywords: is the Archive “a market for riots online” (Redell Olsen) demanding surveillance? ![]() Run a sample text from Archive of the Now through the Assessor. Run the list of keywords through Poetry Assessor (it receives a positive score, classifying it as a ‘professional’ poem).Apply it to work by Archive of the Now poets such as Marianne Morris or Richard Price, whose “Channel Link” circles around lines, opening:Ī poem by the NSA (list of keywords used as terrorist ‘flags’), ‘found’ by William Knowles.Use Quiz III to think through a poem you’re writing or reading.Poetry as News/Data (after the style of Ron Silliman), combined with Fluxuggestions (à la Yoko Ono, to mark the publication of Acorn, and its performance by Stacy Makishi, at Meltdown on ).
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