Propensity

 Regarding The Propensity of Things by Francois Jullien, I dig the poetics stuff, specifically the portion portion of the text that focuses on poetry and the poet's hierarchical position in ancient Chinese Culture,  Also, Jullien lists composition strategies for achieving shi in verse, with dope examples (especially Strategy 9 on pg. 120 and Strategy 17 on pg. 122).  He explains that, in a poem, a surplus of shi moves a text forward. Like feathering an oar while rowing, man. With these motifs in mind, I want to use part of this blog space, a space set up in search for a poetics for electracyto compose and post "Ancient Chinese Internet Poems."

And though, of course, a poems shouldn't be flowery regurgitation of theory (a vomiting of pretty verse from a sick donkey), I've taken Jullien's text to heart while writing and editing these. With electracy in mind, the poems take place in an over-orientalized cyber-reality, a world of pixelated pines and light-emitting mist, constantly in flux, much like--at least through aesthetic depictions--an ancient Chinese landscape.  These poems are ABOUT the Propensity of Identity in an Online Culture, the Poet and Poem as Inevitable Failure plus Waste of Transcendence, the tragic character of a digital landscape, the Death of History, and looming hot-hot-hot Dragon Sex!