Do poets know what they are talking about

there are two types of machines then? - the "allopoeitic" and the autopoeitic". Is this like the scientific demonstration of metaphor? / [well one way of looking
at it] - describing it perhaps by what I could describe here as the sorting and filing of ideas into categories - then the synthesis of appropriate extracts into nice
ordered concepts - [archive after archive] of the type being utilised here by Guatari - the "here it is all neat and tidy kind of knowledge" - Well I'm saying it
very well could be - why not? bringing me happily to the resurgence of the ancient quarrel between the poet and the philosopher, that is still of course quite
beautifully unresolved to this day - We have in fact titled the performance in the Newlyn gallery ARTIST"S AS MACHINES - here is the crux of the matter -
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