i considered delisting yesterday - partly because i don't feel
purely like a mail artist in the same sense - i do densely
collaged little magazines as ive said, and do in fact mail them,
and make weird often decorated and strange envelopes -
but thats only borderline to the postcard and all collage/clipping/ink
contents style, and the shared history and particular focuses,
and love the idea of good unique postal mail, as well as
just as often as not enjoying the blog and website etc
version of the mailart world, and its internationalism.
some of your websites are amazing.
but not just that. the listposts on this group very often
are calls from perfect strangers without a lot of context
so that it would become a task of mailing something
at expense and time, and practically not knowing why.
a little more drive on the sense of purpose could wake
more basis for imagining.
so anyway i was thinking of minimal basis for being on,
and finding it gloomy, a bit? so thought at last conclusively
to delist. first i tried signing on to one of the other
similarly named ones, the new one mentioned,
but wrote in the why do you want to join section
that i wanted to see contrast of another list
and hoped it would be more contextualized and
discussional... more than 200 digits and it seems
once you've got the automatic technology
tangled a computer catch 22 develops,
i was sure the last try was less than 200 keystrokes
so gave up, and returned to the idea of just delisting
from the mailart world altogether. all of the people
seem very nice but directly connected enough
especially overseas to spend $5 mailing?
what if they don't care, or have stacks of
'mail they haven't gotten to yet' ?
i don't do things to add clutter to the world,
nor spend money to do so.
anyway, i made up my mind i'd write systek fabrika
making certain there was no ill thought, only thanks,
about the whole thing, but that i just thought i should delist
...for the above reasons... then would go to
a msg and click on unsubscribe
however as always i could not. how be so final,
how cast a negative vote, how conclude, why end?
it's always amazed me to be hearing from all these places
even if not necessarily having a truly vivid sense of it.
still tho, ive seen practically no conflict, but also
not much context.
there are calls for projects, but then there is discussion.
what to discuss?
i think there was an issue some time ago about
email not being supplementary to mailart but supplanting it,
so that it was only an email group, not a mailart group,
and since then there's been very little discussion
and mostly oblique posts about projects,
and writeups of mailart shows.
ps re kevin's comment, there's 'we're all dying gradually'
or, there's global war and class division doom resulting
in tiring amounts of dying, which kevin might have meant,
or there is also perhaps specific people are dying
thus 'respectful silence' ---
all three possibilities are gloomy
and up here it's cold, and people are
dying,
but mailing spectacular things
AND emailing about the meaning and purpose
and intention, is, a perfectly fine thing to do.
think what it would mean to do so
if one was very rapidly and immanently dying?
thats always a great drastically meaningful thing to do.
those not immanently drastically rapidly dying
could at least partly be glad of that fact
while keeping it in mind in a greater sense
or... not! enjoy your freedom. you could be a volunteer tutor
or work in a soup kitchen. i'm not suggesting limitting options
but there is a kind of high price of meaning in this year's world
as the world leaderships plannings don't exactly
seem to be turning corners in a hopeful way.
someone who knows better than i
nonetheless suggested to me: don't read newspapers
liberate poetry, make it free of these problems.
(and would certainly include art)
which is to say he suggested than poetry and art
had life which obsessing over newspapers did not
john barlow, and if you'd like to mail any last things
104 - 54 howland ave
toronto on m5r 3b3 canada
(no cocaine please, none, please no white powder, etc etc, john
--- kevin thurston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> it has been pointed out that perhaps i over-reacted
> everyone is alive
>
> On 12/5/05, Alice Kitselman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Hey all, it's too quiet. AM I not getting emails or all we all just
> > busy????
> > Dragonfly Dream
> > www.dragonflydream.com
> >
> > "Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much
> > better."
> > -- Laurie Anderson
> >
> >
> >
>
>
> --
> Oh fuck.
>
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