random juxtaposition poems
jim leftwich 01.17.2017
random juxtaposition poem #1
Digging in an old Indian settlement in 1957, Maine archaeologists turned up a silver penny that had been minted in Norway between 1065 and 1080 A.D.
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epicaricacy
n. taking pleasure in others’ misfortune [a form of evil stupidity]
from Greek epi, upon, plus chara, joy, and kakon, evil.
random juxtaposition poem #2
Digging in an old Indian settlement in 1957, Maine archaeologists turned up a silver penny that had been minted in Norway between 1065 and 1080 A.D.
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epicaricacy
n. taking pleasure in others’ misfortune [a form of evil stupidity]
from Greek epi, upon, plus chara, joy, and kakon, evil.
random juxtaposition poem #2
Stigmergy is a mechanism of indirect coordination, through the environment, between agents or actions. The principle is that the trace left in the environment by an action stimulates the performance of a next action, by the same or a different agent.
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The Iron Law of Institutions is: the people who control institutions care first and foremost about their power within the institution rather than the power of the institution itself. Thus, they would rather the institution "fail" while they remain in power within the institution than for the institution to "succeed" if that requires them to lose power within the institution.
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The Iron Law of Institutions is: the people who control institutions care first and foremost about their power within the institution rather than the power of the institution itself. Thus, they would rather the institution "fail" while they remain in power within the institution than for the institution to "succeed" if that requires them to lose power within the institution.
random juxtaposition poem #3
Take a sheet of paper and make a big circle in the middle. In the center of that circle draw a smaller one to create a doughnut shape. Label the doughnut hole “sphere of consensus.” Call the middle region “sphere of legitimate debate,” and the outer region “sphere of deviance.” (Jay Rosen, describing Daniel C. Hallin's diagram of American journalistic practice in The Uncensored War, -- Hallin, 1986, Rosen 2009)
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Today’s social activists have succumbed to one of the most enduring myths of contemporary American protest: the comforting belief that if you can get enough people into the streets from diverse demographics, largely unified behind a clear message, then our representatives will be forced to heed the crowd’s wishes. (Micah White, on the Women's March, January 19, 2017)
random juxtaposition poem #4
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Today’s social activists have succumbed to one of the most enduring myths of contemporary American protest: the comforting belief that if you can get enough people into the streets from diverse demographics, largely unified behind a clear message, then our representatives will be forced to heed the crowd’s wishes. (Micah White, on the Women's March, January 19, 2017)
random juxtaposition poem #4
"The truth is that mass demonstrations are rehearsals for revolution: not strategic or even tactical ones, but rehearsals of revolutionary awareness." (John Berger, from The Nature of Mass Demonstrations, May 23, 1968))
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I see the destructive early 1970s Urban Renewal in Iowa City (while devastating to the city’s cultural identity and historic feel) as more of a precipitating event in the dissolution of the group of writers and artists in the core of the “actualist” movement. More important was the fact that Iowa City was a small pond, with a limited job market (especially for writers and artists), so, eventually, people had to look elsewhere. Add to that the fact that the Iowa Writers Workshop, which under George Starbuck’s direction, had attracted a diverse group of creative radicals in the late 1960s, had recoiled in horror at the cultural flowering (and become much more conservative). So there were fewer actualist-minded new students (or teachers) coming to Iowa City — at the same time that some of us were growing up and moving away, for all those reasons that young people everywhere do exactly that. (George Mattingly, comment on the article Poetry City Actualized: A look back at the birth of an Iowa City-based literary movement, by Adam Burke, in little village mag, Jan 9, 2015).
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I see the destructive early 1970s Urban Renewal in Iowa City (while devastating to the city’s cultural identity and historic feel) as more of a precipitating event in the dissolution of the group of writers and artists in the core of the “actualist” movement. More important was the fact that Iowa City was a small pond, with a limited job market (especially for writers and artists), so, eventually, people had to look elsewhere. Add to that the fact that the Iowa Writers Workshop, which under George Starbuck’s direction, had attracted a diverse group of creative radicals in the late 1960s, had recoiled in horror at the cultural flowering (and become much more conservative). So there were fewer actualist-minded new students (or teachers) coming to Iowa City — at the same time that some of us were growing up and moving away, for all those reasons that young people everywhere do exactly that. (George Mattingly, comment on the article Poetry City Actualized: A look back at the birth of an Iowa City-based literary movement, by Adam Burke, in little village mag, Jan 9, 2015).
random juxtaposition poem #5
Digging in an old Indian settlement in 1957, Maine archaeologists turned up a silver penny that had been minted in Norway between 1065 and 1080 A.D.
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I see the destructive early 1970s Urban Renewal in Iowa City (while devastating to the city’s cultural identity and historic feel) as more of a precipitating event in the dissolution of the group of writers and artists in the core of the “actualist” movement. More important was the fact that Iowa City was a small pond, with a limited job market (especially for writers and artists), so, eventually, people had to look elsewhere. Add to that the fact that the Iowa Writers Workshop, which under George Starbuck’s direction, had attracted a diverse group of creative radicals in the late 1960s, had recoiled in horror at the cultural flowering (and become much more conservative). So there were fewer actualist-minded new students (or teachers) coming to Iowa City — at the same time that some of us were growing up and moving away, for all those reasons that young people everywhere do exactly that. (George Mattingly, comment on the article Poetry City Actualized: A look back at the birth of an Iowa City-based literary movement, by Adam Burke, in little village mag, Jan 9, 2015).
random juxtaposition poem #6
"The truth is that mass demonstrations are rehearsals for revolution: not strategic or even tactical ones, but rehearsals of revolutionary awareness." (John Berger, from The Nature of Mass Demonstrations, May 23, 1968))
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epicaricacy
n. taking pleasure in others’ misfortune [a form of evil stupidity]
from Greek epi, upon, plus chara, joy, and kakon, evil.
n. taking pleasure in others’ misfortune [a form of evil stupidity]
from Greek epi, upon, plus chara, joy, and kakon, evil.
random juxtaposition poem #7
Stigmergy is a mechanism of indirect coordination, through the environment, between agents or actions. The principle is that the trace left in the environment by an action stimulates the performance of a next action, by the same or a different agent.
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Today’s social activists have succumbed to one of the most enduring myths of contemporary American protest: the comforting belief that if you can get enough people into the streets from diverse demographics, largely unified behind a clear message, then our representatives will be forced to heed the crowd’s wishes. (Micah White, on the Women's March, January 19, 2017)
random juxtaposition poem #8
Take a sheet of paper and make a big circle in the middle. In the center of that circle draw a smaller one to create a doughnut shape. Label the doughnut hole “sphere of consensus.” Call the middle region “sphere of legitimate debate,” and the outer region “sphere of deviance.” (Jay Rosen, describing Daniel C. Hallin's diagram of American journalistic practice in The Uncensored War, -- Hallin, 1986, Rosen 2009)
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The Iron Law of Institutions is: the people who control institutions care first and foremost about their power within the institution rather than the power of the institution itself. Thus, they would rather the institution "fail" while they remain in power within the institution than for the institution to "succeed" if that requires them to lose power within the institution.
random juxtaposition poem #9
random juxtaposition poem #10
The Iron Law of Institutions is: the people who control institutions care first and foremost about their power within the institution rather than the power of the institution itself. Thus, they would rather the institution "fail" while they remain in power within the institution than for the institution to "succeed" if that requires them to lose power within the institution.
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Digging in an old Indian settlement in 1957, Maine archaeologists turned up a silver penny that had been minted in Norway between 1065 and 1080 A.D.
Today’s social activists have succumbed to one of the most enduring myths of contemporary American protest: the comforting belief that if you can get enough people into the streets from diverse demographics, largely unified behind a clear message, then our representatives will be forced to heed the crowd’s wishes. (Micah White, on the Women's March, January 19, 2017)
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"The truth is that mass demonstrations are rehearsals for revolution: not strategic or even tactical ones, but rehearsals of revolutionary awareness." (John Berger, from The Nature of Mass Demonstrations, May 23, 1968)
random juxtaposition poem #11
I see the destructive early 1970s Urban Renewal in Iowa City (while devastating to the city’s cultural identity and historic feel) as more of a precipitating event in the dissolution of the group of writers and artists in the core of the “actualist” movement. More important was the fact that Iowa City was a small pond, with a limited job market (especially for writers and artists), so, eventually, people had to look elsewhere. Add to that the fact that the Iowa Writers Workshop, which under George Starbuck’s direction, had attracted a diverse group of creative radicals in the late 1960s, had recoiled in horror at the cultural flowering (and become much more conservative). So there were fewer actualist-minded new students (or teachers) coming to Iowa City — at the same time that some of us were growing up and moving away, for all those reasons that young people everywhere do exactly that. (George Mattingly, comment on the article Poetry City Actualized: A look back at the birth of an Iowa City-based literary movement, by Adam Burke, in little village mag, Jan 9, 2015).
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Take a sheet of paper and make a big circle in the middle. In the center of that circle draw a smaller one to create a doughnut shape. Label the doughnut hole “sphere of consensus.” Call the middle region “sphere of legitimate debate,” and the outer region “sphere of deviance.” (Jay Rosen, describing Daniel C. Hallin's diagram of American journalistic practice in The Uncensored War, -- Hallin, 1986, Rosen 2009)
random juxtaposition poem #12
epicaricacy
n. taking pleasure in others’ misfortune [a form of evil stupidity]
from Greek epi, upon, plus chara, joy, and kakon, evil.
n. taking pleasure in others’ misfortune [a form of evil stupidity]
from Greek epi, upon, plus chara, joy, and kakon, evil.
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Stigmergy is a mechanism of indirect coordination, through the environment, between agents or actions. The principle is that the trace left in the environment by an action stimulates the performance of a next action, by the same or a different agent.
random juxtaposition poem #13
Digging in an old Indian settlement in 1957, Maine archaeologists turned up a silver penny that had been minted in Norway between 1065 and 1080 A.D.
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"Demonstrations express political ambitions before the political means necessary to realise them have been created. Demonstrations predict the realisation of their own ambitions and thus may contribute to that realisation, but they cannot themselves achieve them." (John Berger, from The Nature of Mass Demonstrations, May 23, 1968)
random juxtaposition poem #14
epicaricacy
n. taking pleasure in others’ misfortune [a form of evil stupidity]
from Greek epi, upon, plus chara, joy, and kakon, evil.
n. taking pleasure in others’ misfortune [a form of evil stupidity]
from Greek epi, upon, plus chara, joy, and kakon, evil.
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"Demonstrations express political ambitions before the political means necessary to realise them have been created. Demonstrations predict the realisation of their own ambitions and thus may contribute to that realisation, but they cannot themselves achieve them." (John Berger, from The Nature of Mass Demonstrations, May 23, 1968)
random juxtaposition poem #15
Stigmergy is a mechanism of indirect coordination, through the environment, between agents or actions. The principle is that the trace left in the environment by an action stimulates the performance of a next action, by the same or a different agent.
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"Demonstrations express political ambitions before the political means necessary to realise them have been created. Demonstrations predict the realisation of their own ambitions and thus may contribute to that realisation, but they cannot themselves achieve them." (John Berger, from The Nature of Mass Demonstrations, May 23, 1968)
random juxtaposition poem #16
The Iron Law of Institutions is: the people who control institutions care first and foremost about their power within the institution rather than the power of the institution itself. Thus, they would rather the institution "fail" while they remain in power within the institution than for the institution to "succeed" if that requires them to lose power within the institution.
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"Demonstrations express political ambitions before the political means necessary to realise them have been created. Demonstrations predict the realisation of their own ambitions and thus may contribute to that realisation, but they cannot themselves achieve them." (John Berger, from The Nature of Mass Demonstrations, May 23, 1968)
random juxtaposition poem #17
Take a sheet of paper and make a big circle in the middle. In the center of that circle draw a smaller one to create a doughnut shape. Label the doughnut hole “sphere of consensus.” Call the middle region “sphere of legitimate debate,” and the outer region “sphere of deviance.” (Jay Rosen, describing Daniel C. Hallin's diagram of American journalistic practice in The Uncensored War, -- Hallin, 1986, Rosen 2009)
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"Demonstrations express political ambitions before the political means necessary to realise them have been created. Demonstrations predict the realisation of their own ambitions and thus may contribute to that realisation, but they cannot themselves achieve them." (John Berger, from The Nature of Mass Demonstrations, May 23, 1968)
random juxtaposition poem #18
Today’s social activists have succumbed to one of the most enduring myths of contemporary American protest: the comforting belief that if you can get enough people into the streets from diverse demographics, largely unified behind a clear message, then our representatives will be forced to heed the crowd’s wishes. (Micah White, on the Women's March, January 19, 2017)
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"Demonstrations express political ambitions before the political means necessary to realise them have been created. Demonstrations predict the realisation of their own ambitions and thus may contribute to that realisation, but they cannot themselves achieve them." (John Berger, from The Nature of Mass Demonstrations, May 23, 1968)
random juxtaposition poem #19
"The truth is that mass demonstrations are rehearsals for revolution: not strategic or even tactical ones, but rehearsals of revolutionary awareness." (John Berger, from The Nature of Mass Demonstrations, May 23, 1968))
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"Demonstrations express political ambitions before the political means necessary to realise them have been created. Demonstrations predict the realisation of their own ambitions and thus may contribute to that realisation, but they cannot themselves achieve them." (John Berger, from The Nature of Mass Demonstrations, May 23, 1968)
random juxtaposition poem #20
I see the destructive early 1970s Urban Renewal in Iowa City (while devastating to the city’s cultural identity and historic feel) as more of a precipitating event in the dissolution of the group of writers and artists in the core of the “actualist” movement. More important was the fact that Iowa City was a small pond, with a limited job market (especially for writers and artists), so, eventually, people had to look elsewhere. Add to that the fact that the Iowa Writers Workshop, which under George Starbuck’s direction, had attracted a diverse group of creative radicals in the late 1960s, had recoiled in horror at the cultural flowering (and become much more conservative). So there were fewer actualist-minded new students (or teachers) coming to Iowa City — at the same time that some of us were growing up and moving away, for all those reasons that young people everywhere do exactly that. (George Mattingly, comment on the article Poetry City Actualized: A look back at the birth of an Iowa City-based literary movement, by Adam Burke, in little village mag, Jan 9, 2015).
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"Demonstrations express political ambitions before the political means necessary to realise them have been created. Demonstrations predict the realisation of their own ambitions and thus may contribute to that realisation, but they cannot themselves achieve them." (John Berger, from The Nature of Mass Demonstrations, May 23, 1968)
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Scott MacLeod responses
02.01.2017
randition #1
Dig up pleasure
evil from evil
randition #2
the environment, or actions
is that trace of a next action
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first they remain
in them within
randition #3
Take the middle
create deviance
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the most enduring myths
comfort you can heed
randition #4
truth is not awareness
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the destructive group of writers
and artists in Starbuck’s
randition #5
an old Indian
in Norway
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the historic was a small pond
young people everywhere
randition #6
rehearsals not rehearsals
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misfortune a form of joy
randition #7
between the trace
by the same
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Today’s contemporary
American wishes
randition #8
Take deviance
practice
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Iron within
power within
