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This Is No Longer Entertainment : a Documentary Poem by Makris, Christodoulos is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is This Is No Longer Entertainment : a Documentary Poem about?

'this is no longer entertainment' is formed entirely out of untreated anonymous or pseudonymous text found in the open comments sections of media websites and other digital platforms. It was composed by filtering this un-authored writing through a process of immediate, instinctive selection and reframing, which is inevitably modulated by the authors interests and emotional temperature. The poems composition roughly covers the period 2014-2017; a period marked by a range of notable social-political shifts and events.In its use of avant-garde compositional methods as parallels with experimental documentary filmmaking practices, 'this is no longer entertainment' borrows from and extends the documentary poetry tradition. It is a poetic exploration of public-private language and multiple/shifting personas enabled by digital technologies and communication, and their effect on social discourse and the broader political climate. Cumulatively, the juxtapositions of the primary material consider mutual influences and intersections between themes like (mis)-information and error, the diffusion of authority, pop/celebrity culture, identity politics, the rise of nationalism, and others.

Author
Makris, Christodoulos
Publisher
Independently Published; Independently published
Published
2019
Language
EN
ISBN
9781090582249