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Thanks Simon from New Zealand,
Your verbose nonsensical yet poetic and powerfully political rants threaded
together, to the point, never dull but always provocative, sometimes
incomprehensible, yet direct, welcomed today from Ithaca, cold, blustery,
freezing, icy, gray upon gray mist.
Renate
(it's cold and snowy but beautifully sunny in Ithaca, New York, today)
cicadas & humid grey skies Waiheke Island, New Zealand, today. 2 boys killed in
flashflooding in the Waitakere ranges, Auckland cityside: the persistent
promise of disruptive events that is now our weather, now our environment.
<<empyre>> ... I think of Altavista, the cathode ray tube monitor and
clicketty-clack keyboard, of the public computer at Brazil cafe before I opened
the doors most mornings dialing in to engage with the textvoices coming down
the wire early in the 2000s when I discovered the listserv, starting a blog as
clearinghouse, again public, winging it, butterflies waiting for the next
installment, about the same time: squarewhiteworld.com ... halcyon days /
mornings of digital connectivity, when it seemed to involve and devolve on
actual and sometimes anxious connections, rather than recognitions,
reassurances and reaffirmations of the lugubriously sincere (like-able if not
amiable) variety. When the wire ran hot with debate rains of actual and
sometimes burning butterflies. More popping bubbles than cognitive ones. And I
hazard that that's why I like the listserv format still ... the possibility of
an unforeseen intervention upstarting, derailing more sanguine settled and yes
conser
vative (recuperative) discussion ... The risk of going too far, the highwire,
not preempted by the provision of safetynetting. As for expertise and
theoretical enterprise, was more like a fleamarket, with barrackers,
professional and simulacral, in the softskinned space of egalitarian exchange,
each equally un-niched and in a context the construct of all--permitting that
is words of other unknown because unknowable provenance (owing to textonly
format): who does ____ think she is? who will ____ be? before personological
recidivism and identitarian backlash of social online presence. There it is: a
virtual I have misspelt as "possibility"!
...there would also be something to say about professional overinvestment more
recently actively soliciting recognition, remediation, affirmations; rather
than an increasing reign of expert opinion, the soft sentimental professionally
bleeding heart's thin skin: so, rather than its lateral level and smooth
openness to both professional and expert, invited or lurking, <<empyre>> might
be lauded for the potential to engage in ... risk. It could be a more dangerous
place, this smooth one. Reputations might, at least locally, be on line ... the
long hidden but fragile threads of glass that link us serving in listserv the
needling of consistency and consensus ... crawling back into the cave of the
screen after the fall ... grace
taking a certain time to reflect in private vacuole of that's not what I meant
at all ...
Best,
Simon
Renate Ferro
Visiting Associate Professor
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Department of Art
Tjaden Hall 306
rfe...@cornell.edu
On 2/4/18, 11:19 PM, "empyre-boun...@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au on behalf of
Simon" <empyre-boun...@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au on behalf of
swhtay...@zoho.com> wrote:
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