Preface - Electronic Poetry Center

ideology which contorts the reference enough for there to be a soft edge, a
value placed upon the after-images so that these approximate signs are
motivated. The conditions of culture here become their own critique and
thereby our experience, our bodily experience maintains a level of this critique.
By and in this there is a politicization of experience, which for me drops away
at the moment of reflection. Reflection here is a kind of sustained being, this is
what I meant when I said Imaginary Movie insists. To suggest in what it insists
would entail this kind of explanation, or something more. One last thing. In my
class, there were several different connotations of "political" which proved
stumbling blocks, or at least obstacles for definition. Here I want to suggest that
the motivation of the imaginary beyond reflection and into some level of
sustainable critique is of itself political. Imaginary Movie accomplishes this for
me.