Maybe this is a repetition, maybe it isn't.
I don't really mind.
I've been designing my game and finishing my master's thesis, working with Björk's Biophilia, teaching and attempting to learn how to box, and much else since my last blog. I've also been enrolled on a few courses at Coursera....
Now I'm doing a course, ModPo, which I enjoy (I'm not very deeply engaged though).... now they are doing the Beats and I enjoy the talks about Ginsberg and Kerouac. And soon they'll be doing something on Cage, a guy that truly intrigues me,
Anyway. It seems very interesting to me how the world of fantasy, sf and gaming seem to have existed completely separate from and often diametrically opposed to avant garde writing, art and poetry; both concerning experiments with language, political radicalism and much else.
It seems to me that my man China Mieville seems to be unusual in forming a bridge between these two worlds. I also think the Icelandic poet and writer Eiríkur Örn Nordahl has roots on both sides, though the fantasy sf element is not very apparent in (what I have read of) his work.
Another example of these cultures meeting up is of course Nordic Larp, which is a very important and interesting phenomenon though it seems still to be pretty obscure.
That's it for now, just like a vague start of something, and then I'll go off on another tangent I'm sure....
