A virtual round table with Poiesipedia -founder Luca Marighetti , Dimeword -author Ross Pruden , and spoxx Live from Poiesipedia at the Frankfurt Book Fair Friday, October 11th 2012 Frankfurt: 14:00 – 15:00 Greenwich Mean Time: 12:00 – 13:00 New York: 8am – 9am Seattle: 5am – 6am
Setting out on an excursion into the mindset of the postmodern urbanite. First episode of a collaborational transmedia experience. Prologue in The Subway (storiette)
Call me spoxx. Long ago – never mind how long exactly – I developed a habit of roaming the subways whenever I felt like `the ceiling was about to drop on my head` (as the say goes in my native tongue). Whenever I felt such state of mind take possession of me, I’d leave the cage of my study to dive into the sea of faces, bodies, smells, and sounds of the subway. These excursions offered me such experience of sensual alertness, of which my books and papers so often seemed to talk, yet never gave an opportunit