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at some point in the distant past, when I still said I did "poetics," some perceptive person said I should read Amiri Baraka. I tried but it must not have been the right moment. suddenly now, 20 years later, every word of his rings true and profound: "the future is always here in the past”. Baraka also understood what I only got last month: that most of what's interesting in McLuhan was already there in Norbert Wiener. "Machines (as Norbert Weiner said) are an extension of their inventor-creators...Machines, the entire technology of the West, is just that, the technology of the West." #othernetworks