Disorders of the Interview about Disorders of the Real http://www.alansondheim.org/Disorders.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/Disordersinterview.jpg Welcome / My book Disorders of the Real was published in 1988 by Station Hill Press. At that time I was interviewed by Jerry Cullum who who has been a friend on and off from Atlanta for years. Or rather the interview occurred later in 1988 and perhaps the book was published in 1988. I'm not sure when the book was published. In any case in the interview I am at last inconceivably arrogant, self centered, selfish, vain-glorious, self-satirical, cynical, and making a mess of what might otherwise have been an interview in which I wasn't so preposterous. On the other hand I look at the preposterousness as a result of a comedic or absurdist impulse on my end. In other words talking about the book as living in eternity. Whereas in fact I knew there would hardly be any readers for it. So for me this is both an embarrassment and a delight to see what on earth anyone would make of this. I found this copy of the interview in a copy of Disorders of the Real that Lee Murray had and I had returned to me because it had notes he had made on my book. It's interesting to note at least for me that although the book was written something like almost 40 years ago I think - that concerns in it are my concerns now with however more emphasis on the problematic of technology in relationship to testimony and more of an interest in physics and mathematics then I had at that time. I'm amazed to find that the interview was a bit eloquent on my part which I hadn't suspected. I'm not sure what it was written for perhaps for the magazine Art Papers. I In any case Jerry Cullum is an incredible an and interesting thinker who is still writing in Atlanta and still working. I treasure the time I've spent with him and the fact that he was even willing to do this interview. The book was published by Station Hill Press and and maybe I said that above? I'm dictating and talking and talking and talking and getting nowhere. Why isn't this work known a bit better? Why did it fail? What's wrong with me? And there are still some copies, but not very many, available on available on Abe Books. I'm not suggesting you read it, I only want to say that I think for that period of time it constitutes a kind of statement that I'm still involved in and it's all involved in, and I felt at that time that I had reached some sort of closure and I used the book as a way of dealing with that. I reproduced the image from a copy that I found as I mentioned inserted into the book by Lee Murray and I do not know where the original of this interview is at all. Thank you. Somewhere along the line I still hope for readers, there are a few people who are interested in what I do, but not many, surely even less than that. I wander inside myself. I condemn myself for wandering, for even now having ambition. My writing and reading are teetering. "This is a window into that world." It might have been better if it had remained closed, just as we're closed off here in this godforsaken city that won't ever give us the time of day. Read the book if you find a copy. They won't last. It was never reprinted, just as my Deep Language and The Wayward from Salt Books were pulled out of circulation before they ever had a chance. Punctum will be publishing my Broken Theory in a few months, get a copy; I hope somewhere along the way there will be a review or interview. In the meantime you can read this meandering work of uncontrollable hubris. http://www.alansondheim.org/Disorders.jpg __ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list NetBehaviour@lists.netbehaviour.org https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
