GODISTURBER

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Ideograms. Turntables. PICTURES. SOUNDS?
Symbols. Tallismans.

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Some may win a Nobel prize for translation and remixing, others may end up confined to a detention center.

It is not our job to say what our precursors ought to have done, but we can try to find out why they did it. –Ezra Pound, Typescript for a preliminary survey. (1951)

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If a picture can tell a thousand words, then a video can tell, well, how many? 10′000. MORE THAN WORDS? And so it follows that a video of a picture telling a word seems fitting for the condensation of meaning, exhibited by the Ideogramic Method.–Fly

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Musing on the ideogramic method of Ezra Pound and how he remixed some of the Chinese Characters into his great poem including History “The Cantos”; i asked myself “how much more quickly and effectively someone like POUND or Ernest FENOLLOSA could have worked with the kind of webnet tools we have freely available in 2008? (For translation, etymological research etc.) If he could have had access to a kind of KEYBOARD with interchangable SYMBOLS upon it, to experiment with and develope a language/poem?
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