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Dear Renate, <<empyreans>>,
I am confused about your introduction to my post: I am verbose? I am
also to the point. I am incomprehensible? I am also direct. I am
powerfully political. I am nonsensical. Poetic.
... I write to you as a recent PhD. in the job market, transcendent uber
alles. (Perhaps there is a market for the qualities you list? Please let
me know.)
(Apropos of existential contradiction on the left, I would like to point
the list to this:
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/what-happens-next-british-left/)
Best,
Simon
http://squarewhiteworld.com/ (PS: see Sol or /Puertopia /(sic) for the
actuation of the cyberpositivism of the early 2000s.)
On 05/02/18 17:32, Renate Terese Ferro wrote:
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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
[email protected]
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