Lost on the Dark Mountain? Blog post by Dougald Hind,
Are there really only nine days left before the curation event for this DIWO? Having been invited to act as some kind of guide to the project, I feel like I got rather lost along the way. I guess getting lost could be a theme here: one of my favourite pieces from the list is Michael’s lost Angel of History, blown backwards through the East End... In the manifesto and elsewhere, I’ve written about stories acting as maps, drawing our attention to certain aspects of reality and giving us a sense of direction. Geoff Dyer says of John Berger that to take his work seriously is not to place his name more prominently on the existing map of literary reputations, but to redraw the map itself. If the mess we’re in is partly down to the maps we have inherited, how do we redraw them – and arrive, perhaps, at a less misguided sense of our place in the world? more... http://www.http.uk.net/diwodarkmountain/?p=46 _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
