@joel@poetry rhetorical situation; for example, you wouldn't expect cursing in a eulogy but it's ok at, say, a comedy club. That inspires another kind of economy and rhetorical restriction we don't often recognize.
Dark communication patterns (including advertising patterns) are like dark UI design and are intended to extract something of value from the user (money/data). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_pattern This absolutely has roots in rhetorical theory and manipulative techniques. 2/3
GEWITTERSCHWÜLE schwert die Luft
Wolken liegen dicht wie Rauch
Linden senden sanften Duft
nach einem laufend GARTENSCHLAUCH
streckt sich sanft der KATZE
Tatze
"I choose, for moderate comfort, a thin tree
whose tallest branch has yet one leaf
hunched brown. A flag? Defiance? Obstinance?
A declaration I suppose.
I make it mine."
"while in heaven right next door somebody has plugged
a radio into a long extension cord and music from the local radio station has scared
the raccoons away and bushels of corn are picked by a woman who loves the feel
of the perfect ears in her hands because this is her heaven you see not the heaven
of raccoons"
Allen Grossman's provided the inspiration for this week's #blog post, which is chock full of thoughts on #poetry and #AI, with additional help from #Adorno, #PaulCelan, and other stellar representatives of #Humanity :