Word: cage
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...third of six speeches of its kind to be given this year, the lecture was written with the help of a computer program that allows Cage to discover meaning in random word pairings...
...Cage has described himself as a "mushroom hunter" seeking valuable ideas in the arbitrary combinations spit out by the IC computer program...
...title of yesterday's lecture, "Method Structure Intention Discipline-Notation Indeterminacy Interpenetration Imitation Devotion Circumstance-Variable-Structure Nonunderstanding-Contingeny Performance," was taken from Cage's 1981 text Composition in Retrospect...
...Cage created each Norton lecture by choosing entries from each of the fifteen sections of the book. He then selected passages from the writings of Wittgenstien, Fuller, McLuhan, Thoreau, Emerson, L.C. Beckett's Neti Neti and sentences from major newspapers...
...gave up making choices," Cage wrote in the printed introduction to the lecture series. "In their place I put the asking of questions...