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...But of these sophisms and elenchs of merchandise I skill not...
Milton, Areopagitica

Except he had found the
standing sea-rock that even this last
Temptation breaks on; quieter than death but lovelier; peace
that quiets the desire even of praising it.

Jeffers, Meditation On Saviors


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10.11.02

John Sexton Places of Power
You may not sell, publish, license or otherwise distribute any of these photographs without the written permission of the photographer!!!!!!!!! !
{makes you wonder where microsoft gets all that gimme-gimme energy doesn't it?}


{updated. the point being that artists are more than the conscience of the race. they are the expressed will of the race, the first sharp edge of intent. Mr. Sexton's work is aesthetically pleasing. Mr. Sexton treats the online space his work appears in as synonymous with the paid-for gloss of a magazine. as medium it is the whore-shell of the old world digitized, but it isn't that in essence, in essence it's more than medium, McLuhan inside out, it's not medium AS message, it's both combined into a furthur thing. the attempt on the part of so many to name what that is in the old language, to call it a 'space', to utlilize it as 'magazine' or 'journal', while fine and appropriate as far as that goes, without the aknowledgement of its depth and breadth as something new, beyond our fit task to describe, well that's what pisses me off about that copyright whine of Sexton's and so many. like poets own the language. right? so kick down, Timmy, you're using our words on a daily basis. for free, eh. Sexton publishes his stuff in the new world and contributes blindly to the greed-colonizing of that world. that's what's pukey about his graspy little suck for money. he pimps his shit, and makes rules like a lot of the other little boys in their scabbed-together fort up in the backyard tree. mine! no girls! no niggers! but the world his warning appears in is both magazine and the room the magazine is read in. it's something new, and as yet mostly unknown, and it's being raped and destroyed right in front of all of us. by simple greed writ larger than life. what this is now is nothing to what it could have been by now, and what it will be is now too likely to be shaped by the small minds of fools quacks and charlatans, and pimps. self-pimping is no more morally acceptable, regardless how common it is.
I am not saying anything about making money online. but making money online by constricting the flow of information, by limiting the flow of information to approved and licensed channels, will change the course of human evolution, forever, for the worse.}

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