When two tennis players slash it out for the cup they are playing against one another. But they are playing for us. Why can't that be a kind of conversation?
Nick Thompson [email protected] https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ -----Original Message----- From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of jon zingale Sent: Monday, February 15, 2021 1:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [FRIAM] A public letter to Nick, cc: any that write here I appreciate and am interested in *stylistic exploration* of this medium. This is in part what makes an Exquisite Corpse so exquisite. For example, I appreciate that public lectures need not be an individual yammering at a podium, that it may instead appear as a panel discussion, interview, or any manner of collaborative performance. I love the trialogue style of *Two New Sciences*. There may ultimately be something perverse to it, but I think it is a perversion that is more than called for. While we may *all* one day come to understand in our hearts such performances to be simply a fetishization of a by-gone era where letters and privacy had meaning, I believe there is still very much a need to work through the vast storehouse of modalities, to identify those seductive qualities (entertaining, engaging, inviting, irresistible) of communication that continue to serve. For me, the verdict is still out as to which modalities are (counter)productive. "Misunderstanding" may be too harsh an inference, and ceasing to act in light of such an inference may be too rash an outcome. There are temporal qualities afforded by variation in modality. I do not expect everyone to hold their tongues (e-pens) to the end, I expect to present a loose framework for the flow of a discussion and for it to become unfocused and poorly defined. Ultimately I expect all interactions to dissolve back into the nothingness from which they were born. In the meantime, these loose frameworks serve to vary the structure of a dialogue, even if only transiently, and to invite shifts in perspective. Writing can often benefit from a prompt or a prompted form, I think of the public letter as such a form. -- Sent from: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/
