257. This changing the coincidental to the inevitable in poetic imagination is no different from scientific imagination. Poetry is also a process of problem-solving and precise experimentation. But don’t forget, it is also a prank and a game. … and scientific imagination no less? … at what point does it cease

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picked up a book, who knows why I ordered it, requested it, but I had. It was called True Detective, had a series of essays, ending with a visual essay, on the tv series of the same name. Eugene Thacker had written the blurb on the back and one of

It struck me text-prompting an AI image-generator that the image it generated was as much the result of the text as the image pool the AI used. Not only this, the resultant image is as open to contest, for example open to the charge of cultural appropriation, as if it

I sat down to write this morning. Perhaps it is these unfamiliar surrounds–strange to be writing in a retirement village; where the weather has lifted, an atmospheric river disgorging its flow last night, and the sound of it, despite the insulation, the double-glazing, the general sense of separation from

“A good writing day is a day with the fewest interruptions, mixed with a sense of gratitude, just for being able to put pen to paper.” A FOOTNOTE TO COLOSSIANS            For ye are dead, and your life is hid.                     Colossians 3:3Let us remember the stillborn: how they cede their