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st Freed Man" in The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967), p. 205. aceTo be without description of to be.fi A A 14. Stevens, ficeNotes Toward a Supreme Fiction,fi Ibid., p. 389. ficeThe final elegance ... plainly to propound" A A 51 Stevens, aceThe Sail of Ulysses" in Op

ficeOne beats and . . . Be merely oneself% 117. Eliot, aceFour Quartets,fi op. cit., p. 114. aceA people without . . . Of timeless moments.ft 118. John McHale, correspondence. Sec McHale, John, The Future of the Future (New York: George Broodier, 1969). ficeAhistory: Amen.A 119 Eliot, aceFour Quartets,fi

out of this rapidly emerging field. I asked the essayists to consider: (a) The Zen-like poem “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,” by Wallace Stevens, which he insisted was “not meant to be a collection of epigrams or of ideas, but of sensations.” It is an exercise in “perspectivism,” consisting of

rs since: “new technologies = new perceptions.” Inspired by communications theorist Marshall McLuhan, architect-designer Buckminster Fuller, futurist John McHale, and cultural anthropologists Edward T. (Ned) Hall and Edmund Carpenter, I started reading avidly in the field of information theory, cybernetics, an

out of this rapidly emerging field. I asked the essayists to consider: (a) The Zen-like poem “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird,” by Wallace Stevens, which he insisted was “not meant to be a collection of epigrams or of ideas, but of sensations.” It is an exercise in “perspectivism,” consisting of

rs since: “new technologies = new perceptions.” Inspired by communications theorist Marshall McLuhan, architect-designer Buckminster Fuller, futurist John McHale, and cultural anthropologists Edward T. (Ned) Hall and Edmund Carpenter, I started reading avidly in the field of information theory, cybernetics, an