"So, what has the author done here? She has taken some of those questions or statements that form the strata or basis of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory and laid them out as, as it were, a grid... and then she has immersed this grid or frame, or trap (like a lobster trap), into the nearest thing we have to a currently up-and-running collective consciousness/unconsciousness. Then she hauled up her catch. And that collective un/consciousness is the web, the internet itself.... which is actuated or realized or effectuated or made actionable or decipherable — let us for a moment stipulate it so — in the Google realm. Then she sits back and sees what the depths offer up (or, at least, we assume that is in fact the degree of agency she devolves upon this activity and that search engine’s capabilities). And this is what we get... pure, terrible, frightening, hilarious, scarifying, doom-girdled, evanescent, malodorous, uplifting, pathetic, transcendental poetry. Poetry from the depths, from the cockpit of humanity — or so it seems — itself."
Saturday, March 10, 2007
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