Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 10:51:35 -0500
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
From: malgosia askanas <ma-AT-panix.com>
Subject: [Puptcrit] Writing and nuclear winter


At 7:02 AM +0000 2/13/10, Simon Palmer wrote:
>I'd like to write *at length* here about the extent and dangers of=A0
>promotional language in puppet theatre but the last time I wrote *at=A0
>length* I managed to summon a nuclear winter for the debate (cf. the
>last piece on "Architectural Puppetry" some months ago).

And I, for one, would like to encourage to you write *at length* 
about any topic into which your desire and inspiration lead you.  I 
found your posts on architectural puppetry, as well as the responses 
it provoked, highly stimulating, and I am sure that there were others 
among the 400 or so subscribers to this list that found them 
stimulating as well.  I gather that you yourself haven't found the 
responses thought-provoking or in any way useful?  Well, theoretical 
discussions are not an everyday event on this list - or, for that 
matter, an everyday event in the lives of theatre practitioners - and 
they require from the participants a large investment of time and 
thought.   But you know what?  In my observation, it is 
excruciatingly difficult to get a theoretical discussion going on 
*any* list, even lists, such as the Deleuze-Guattari list, that are 
gatherings (one would think) of precisely people interested in 
discussing so-called "theory".  So I think one very frequently has to 
make, as Wittgenstein used to say, one's own oxygen.

-m
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