For this episode, In this episode, we focus on the founding illogics of online response and inaction, distancing and touching, by taking up the internet formats at the heart of what ails us. We will hear a reading of some of Alexandra Juhasz's more self-critical writing, “choose to be digitally productive rather than reactive,” a response to feeling dirty, grim, and culpable on the 55th day of creating her online primmer. Then, video artist Orr Menirom joins the conversation, reading and also explaining the process behind a poem written at a Fake News Poetry Workshop held at a Media Studies Conference in NYC and created through a surrealist process called Exquisite Corpse. Like us, the surrealists were responding to the phony questions of their time--about war, nationalism, racism, and capitalism. They chose to bank on the qualities of the irrational, unconscious, or random—as well as the collective. We borrowed these tactics, and the poems rendered through them allow us real access to today’s truths.
the problem now with the internet is that the past is always there… as you grow up you are going to
change
lives
Forever
oceans are drowning in plastic
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We know neither podcasts nor Fake News Poetry Workshops will end or even undo the internet’s current shape or violence, nor the insane logics of our time that litter our oceans with plastic. But they do offer other productive systems from which we can learn and do differently. So, change the internet with us! Engage in art answers to phony questions by volunteering to read a poem or hardtruth found at the online primer of digital media literacy, #100hardtruths-#fakenews or fakenews-poetry.org.
Organize your own Fake News Poetry Workshop.
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