January 2010
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December 2009
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REACT 2010 →
The Alternator is engaging artists and the global community in a creative cultural conversation about the values surrounding the Olympics. REACT2010.com is a dynamic medium for creative expression that we hope will lead to an examination & appreciation of diverse cultural values.Utilizing the medium of your choice, we invite you to react to the values you see expressed in the Olympic Games....
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“l.l. tricks: 1. write anything, just do it NOW. if it’s the word...”
– L.L., on writer’s block
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“Back away from the computer and find a pen that makes a pleasing stroke and...”
– D.T.L., on writer’s block
Cultural and Artistic Inquiry: Ashok Mathur →
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“The more we sever ourselves from a literate, print-based world, a world of...”
– Chris Hedges, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle. (Knopf, 2009)
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“People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and...”
– James Baldwin via Chris Hedges, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literary and the Triumph of Spectacle
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in praise of words not books.... →
the Globe & Mail’s Rick Salutin on “page nostalgia.”
“Books never acknowledge you back, no matter how you adore them. They’re indifferent to human response. Readers ignore this harshness; they even cuddle up with their books. But a book won’t ever cuddle you back and you must harden yourself to it somehow. In my experience, there’s no correlation...
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