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I:1. Reading, hearing, writing, performing the linguistically innovative poetries and
swept up in the enthusiasms of their deep, but lo-tech, engagements with new textualities through both
formal experiment, and in their play of significations, there is a temptation to say to its practising
writers and readers, “I/you/we/they don’t need ‘new’
technologies or ‘new’ media.” There is so much left to be explored, that is
being explored, in both codexspace and performancespace, as to suggest that it would be a waste
of time to buy into some novel textgadgetry; to risk an expense of spirit in the wastes of
techno-narcissism; or to subject poetics, “…
to the trade of a calculation that dominates
most tenaciously in those areas where there is no need of numbers.”
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