The fight to publish Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’
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The fight to publish Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’
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Re: The fight to publish Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’
#2It's pretty incredible how recent many of our seemingly inalienable rights (actual freedom of speech, de jure racial equality, right to representation, prohibition of the use of illegally obtained evidence, etc) have actually only been around a few decades, mostly thanks to the visionary Warren and Burger courts.
They were considered dangerous activist judges by many in their time.
Re: The fight to publish Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’
#3Treat Spiked Online with caution:
Re: The fight to publish Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’
#4I think many here learned to appreciate this poem from HN postings of this analysis of Howl:
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/
SSC is a great site, and if you haven't, please do have a look^. Do please, however, be aware that spiked-online is pretty alt-right and politically extreme, and although this is a decent historical piece, most articles there are of the ultra-neocon and angry cable talkshow style opinion, dressed in intellectual wording.
Re: The fight to publish Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’
#5I think many here learned to appreciate this poem from HN postings of this analysis of Howl: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/ SSC is a great site, and if you haven't, please do have a look^. Do please, however, be aware that spiked-online is pretty alt-right and politically extreme, and although this is a decent historical piece, most articles there are of the ultra-neocon and angry cable…
Spiked Online is a successor to Living Marxism magazine. It's left contrarianism of the horseshoe theory kind.
Re: The fight to publish Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’
#6I think many here learned to appreciate this poem from HN postings of this analysis of Howl: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/ SSC is a great site, and if you haven't, please do have a look^. Do please, however, be aware that spiked-online is pretty alt-right and politically extreme, and although this is a decent historical piece, most articles there are of the ultra-neocon and angry cable…
On HN, it's the article that matters. Most primarily-political sites have a downweight on them, but we turn the downweight off when a good article comes along. Or try to, at least; it depends on whether we see it or someone points it out to us.
Re: The fight to publish Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’
#7The excerpt in the article is misprinted (2019-05-13-0118 GMT). It should read: _“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix”_
In the article _angry_ and _negro_ are transposed.
Re: The fight to publish Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’
#8I think many here learned to appreciate this poem from HN postings of this analysis of Howl: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/ SSC is a great site, and if you haven't, please do have a look^. Do please, however, be aware that spiked-online is pretty alt-right and politically extreme, and although this is a decent historical piece, most articles there are of the ultra-neocon and angry cable…
On HN, it's the article that matters. Most primarily-political sites have a downweight on them, but we turn the downweight off when a good article comes along. Or try to, at least; it depends on whether we see it or someone points it out to us.
Are you saying that they're algorithmically downweighted and that you manually turn that off when it seems appropriate?
Interesting, I thought the feed was just based on chronology + votes! How quaint of me. Is there anything written anywhere about how the feed algorithm works generally?
Re: The fight to publish Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Howl’
#9Fans of the movie Hackers (1995) will recall Dade Murphy reading the first line of Howl in his advanced English class.
The Beat culture of the 1950's was absolutely the predecessor to the hacker/cyberpunk culture of the 1990's.
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#10Funny, I just bought a collection of Ginsberg's poetry after seeing a reference to 'Howl' in the "Academe's Extinction" article posted here the other night.