Comments on: spiritual materialism http://netpoetic.com/2009/07/spiritual-materialism/ exploring digital poetry and electronic literature Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:19:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Game Isabel Biederman http://netpoetic.com/2009/07/spiritual-materialism/comment-page-1/#comment-1204 Game Isabel Biederman Fri, 04 Nov 2011 07:24:27 +0000 http://netpoetic.com/2009/07/spiritual-materialism/#comment-1204 Howdy would you mind sharing which blog platform you're using? I'm planning to start my own blog in the near future but I'm having a hard time selecting between BlogEngine/Wordpress/B2evolution and Drupal. The reason I ask is because your design seems different then most blogs and I'm looking for something completely unique. P.S Sorry for getting off-topic but I had to ask! Howdy would you mind sharing which blog platform you’re using? I’m planning to start my own blog in the near future but I’m having a hard time selecting between BlogEngine/Wordpress/B2evolution and Drupal. The reason I ask is because your design seems different then most blogs and I’m looking for something completely unique. P.S Sorry for getting off-topic but I had to ask!

]]> By: vispo http://netpoetic.com/2009/07/spiritual-materialism/comment-page-1/#comment-20 vispo Fri, 10 Jul 2009 07:46:12 +0000 http://netpoetic.com/2009/07/spiritual-materialism/#comment-20 well art has to work by suggestion, when it comes to presenting or representing immaterial things, doesn't it. and it has to be open to let the audience fill in the gaps and make it real to themselves. and it has to let them into that process. and needs to require that process. relatedly, anything an artist can say that does not require the audience's creativity is boring. well art has to work by suggestion, when it comes to presenting or representing immaterial things, doesn’t it. and it has to be open to let the audience fill in the gaps and make it real to themselves. and it has to let them into that process. and needs to require that process.

relatedly, anything an artist can say that does not require the audience’s creativity is boring.

]]> By: Davin Heckman http://netpoetic.com/2009/07/spiritual-materialism/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Davin Heckman Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:01:34 +0000 http://netpoetic.com/2009/07/spiritual-materialism/#comment-12 What a fantastic thing to think about. In my travails, I have been struggling to come to grips with the relationship between presence/representation. In theological/spiritual debates, the question of "presence," in which a metaphysical truth is made manifest in some material capacity, is something that is treated with some degree of openness (this openness is implied by the very preoccupations of theology). But when we get down to things like art criticism or literary theory, where the immaterial phenomenon is usually recorded and marked in some fairly straightforward way (ie. Wordsworth wrote this poem about an aesthetic experience that he had in this place), there is much more reluctance to explore the "presence" of such a piece, particularly the phenomenological dimensions of what, I think, can be a fairly visceral interpersonal encounter. I think this piece opens up a back door to questions of presence in literature/art. What a fantastic thing to think about. In my travails, I have been struggling to come to grips with the relationship between presence/representation. In theological/spiritual debates, the question of “presence,” in which a metaphysical truth is made manifest in some material capacity, is something that is treated with some degree of openness (this openness is implied by the very preoccupations of theology). But when we get down to things like art criticism or literary theory, where the immaterial phenomenon is usually recorded and marked in some fairly straightforward way (ie. Wordsworth wrote this poem about an aesthetic experience that he had in this place), there is much more reluctance to explore the “presence” of such a piece, particularly the phenomenological dimensions of what, I think, can be a fairly visceral interpersonal encounter. I think this piece opens up a back door to questions of presence in literature/art.

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