Techno-Prosthetic Romantic FuturismExterminate the Brutes!It would be a simple matter, really, to eliminate these contra-scholarly pests. They seemed to have it in for Wordsworth's poetry. [2] He'd prepare a little present. The Intimations Ode would be a prize too juicy to resist. Every post-colonial from Havana to Calcutta knew it, whether they'd read it or not. He'd retro-wire the poem in such a way that when they cracked the line "nature yet remembers," they'd encounter a digital blowback so strong it would scorch their fingers and fry their neural circuits. [2] Their only cultural inheritance would be drool and dripping feces. They'd tell him everything they knew about the Byron just to get back sphincter control. The vermin! Notes1. A typical error at Unicorp. Not Wordsworth but the Wordsworth effect is objectionable: the cultural appropriation of Wordsworth's poetry to promote a sense of autonomous subjectivity, of organic life, of deference to Higher Powers. 2. So much for the vaunted objectivity of knowledge. It is indeed as old Foucault said, "Knowledge is for cutting." For a first full philosophy of knowledge as aggression, see Frank N. Stein Reap the Whirlwind: On the Hatred of Philosophy (The Hague: Nonsense/nonsens, 2058). Navigation |