Preface - Electronic Poetry Center

One final point, the implicit contrast in Ron’s defense of market coercion (qua
human drama) is to academia. Not overlooking the structural connections
between the corporations and the universities, it does seem worthwhile to point
out the obvious fact that whereas the corporations have no interest in Ron’s or
anyone else’s poetic practice, the universities do (and where that interest is not
pursued, it can at least be raised; which is not possible within the context of
Philip Morris, etc.).
Having said all of this, I remain interested in reading more about James’s
"rethinking" of organization, and in seeing more from Ron about the "gains" of
dirtying one’s hands (one must adjust that metaphor, I think, in light of the
great keyboard of techno-capitalism: clean hands?).