The Poetic Terrorist

Month: November, 2009

Marshall McLuhan, Artist

“The percussed victims of the new technology have invariably muttered cliches about the impracticality of artists and their fanciful preferences. But in the past century, it has come to be generally acknowledged that, in the words of Wyndham Lewis, “The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future because he is [...]

The Nature of an Idea

“If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of everyone, and [...]

Fighting Back

I found this comment while perusing the interweb news about the tyranny trying to be imposed by the big media lobby in the UK.
While fighting back through tweeting and letter writing and using the law is necessary. . .
It seems that at some point there needs to be civil action on the part of audiences [...]