Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 19:06:59
From: Luba Slabyj <romanframe-AT-v-wave.com>
Subject: Re: real and irreal


Hi Ellen:

I'm short on thoughtful right now (maybe even always), but I did very much
like what you had to say. Certainly didn't take it as so much advertising
and mirrors, at any rate. And your point about bourgeois reality-anxiety is
well taken, in this quarter at least.

Cheers,
Luba


At 04:27 PM 8/19/98 EDT, you wrote:
>In a message dated 98-08-19 15:55:09 EDT, Garyn writes:
>
><< 
> The above could be used as proof for my last post about advertisements 
> and mirrors.  Ellen says more about herself than she does to whom she 
> replies and she wishes (the actual advertisement for herself) us to 
> reflect what she would be or do.  Hence, a really inappropriate response 
> and an irreal knowledge of her own situation.>>
>
>Inappropriate response?  Very interesting.  Goes back to my abusive theory of
>the hyperreal.  You redefine my intentions rather than speak to my content,
>and then punish me for what you believe my intentions are.  If I submit, your
>hyperreal remains intact.  Kiss my ass.
>
><<  
> Why not give up the whining if the real is your goal and begin working 
> towards a revolution of the everyday--  an act which is not possible to 
> "expresss" within the net, over email.
>  >>
>
>The revolution of the everyday has already started, Gary.  And yes it is
>possible to express over e-mail--I just did.  Whether my "expression" meets
>any thoughtful reception here or just dies in the void remains to be seen.
>
>Ellen
>