Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:13:11 -0500
From: Steve Abrams <sapuppets-AT-gmail.com>
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] Writing and nuclear winter


me too



On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 4:43 PM, Hobey Ford <hobeyone-AT-gmail.com> wrote:

> I also enjoyed that thread alot.
>
> On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 11:03 AM, Karen Larsen <KarenLarsen-AT-earthlink.net
> >wrote:
>
> > Your response, malgosia, as well as the more thoughtful discussed
> > topics on puptcrit, always make me think we should find a space and
> > time some day for an informal weekend for discussion of such.  Coffee
> > in the day and wine at night with a moderately small bunch of folks
> > who really like to discuss theory.  My idea of heaven.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Feb 13, 2010, at 10:51 AM, malgosia askanas wrote:
> >
> > > 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
> > >> promotional language in puppet theatre but the last time I wrote *at
> > >> 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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