Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 10:43:18 -0400
Subject: Re: MB: Literature and the Right to Death (clad t' be of swerve)
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>well I must admit I definitely shy away from adding things to do but
you
are just as definitely write in what you suggest. meanwhile...
>glad you feel that way. but I still feel that the field and flux within
a
group like Blanchot or Bataille (even maybe the Deleuze and/or Derrida
groups) are potentially great as a matrix/womb for a kind of "lay", re:
"the folks" "anarchistic" Other, especially considering of the radically
left and anarchistic and "people" roots of this and related...
I could agree , but I work both ways and the dichotomy is one I have not
yet solved: as a human being, my moods sway immensely: sometimes I swoon
over Blanchot and his heavy hyper-serious darkness - one thing I find so
refreshing in his work is the utter lack of ego - yes, of course he's
concerned with the experience of the creator and uses his own experience
as example, and thus gets exceedingly personal, but I don't believe it's
a matter of egocentricity/solipcism, instead a means of illustration; he
seems more concerned with the creator's experience as a Universal, shall
we say, not simply with his own. Then ... the other side of me as
reader bouncing off the walls will shut a Blanchot book in consternation
at the prevalence of his negativity ... I then veer full force towards
the surrealists and their celebratory exploration of the creative act
(if you're at all interested, click on the attachment below to see how
greatly the opiate I indulge in this ism intoxicates me ...)
Nonetheless, I joined this group for the lack of informed seriousness I
encounter in the 'lay' element of humanity - I want the voice of the
Academy, the intellectual stimulation I can (usually) only find there:as
an artist, I find myself often grouped among the amazingly illiterate
and culturally vacuous (except when it comes to trendiness: I went to
college in NYC and played the game of the "Art World," as Danto would
say, for 10 years - much to my disillusion and dismay --_ I think both
venues are needed (the intellectual and the curious/inventive/creative),
but, unfortunately, they rarely seem to go together - I believe because
one element "knows" life in the world, as it were, the other in the
Ivory Tower (protected from the world). I envy the academy, and yet
have found myself immensely frustrated at the limits of the minds often
housed therein - a friend turned me onto an apropos quote:
"Specialization is for insects").
>another alsobytheway: I'm a musician in NYC constantly on the move
daily
nightly playing rehearsing never stop (my fantasygoalvision is to slow
down
and live/play/write/discuss/engender quality, however, while we're at
it,
in a nutshell, how does one start a listserve?
I really don't know I'm afraid, I would ask one of the group leaders if
you're truly interested
Claire/Cleo
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>glad you feel that way. but I still feel that the field and flux
within a
group like Blanchot or Bataille (even maybe the Deleuze and/or Derrida
groups) are potentially great as a matrix/womb for a kind of "lay",
re:
"the folks" "anarchistic" Other, especially considering of the radically
left and anarchistic and "people" roots of this and related...
I could agree , but I work both ways and the dichotomy is one I have
not yet solved: as a human being, my moods sway immensely: sometimes I
swoon over Blanchot and his heavy hyper-serious darkness - one thing
I find so refreshing in his work is the utter lack of ego
- yes, of course he's concerned with the experience of the creator and
uses his own experience as example, and thus gets exceedingly personal,
but I don't believe it's a matter of egocentricity/solipcism, instead a
means of illustration; he seems more concerned with the creator's experience
as a Universal, shall we say, not simply with his own. Then
... the other side of me as reader bouncing off the walls will shut a Blanchot
book in consternation at the prevalence of his negativity ... I then veer
full force towards the surrealists and their celebratory exploration of
the creative act (if you're at all interested, click on the attachment
below to see how greatly the opiate I indulge in this ism intoxicates
me ...) Nonetheless, I joined this group for the lack of informed
seriousness I encounter in the 'lay' element of humanity - I want the voice
of the Academy, the intellectual stimulation I can (usually) only find
there:as an artist, I find myself often grouped among the amazingly illiterate
and culturally vacuous (except when it comes to trendiness: I went to college
in NYC and played the game of the "Art World," as Danto would say, for
10 years - much to my disillusion and dismay --_ I think both venues
are needed (the intellectual and the curious/inventive/creative), but,
unfortunately, they rarely seem to go together - I believe because one
element "knows" life in the world, as it were, the other in the
Ivory Tower (protected from the world). I envy the academy, and yet
have found myself immensely frustrated at the limits of the minds
often housed therein - a friend turned me onto an apropos quote: "Specialization
is for insects").
>another alsobytheway: I'm a musician in NYC constantly on the move
daily
nightly playing rehearsing never stop (my fantasygoalvision is to
slow down
and live/play/write/discuss/engender quality, however, while we're
at it,
in a nutshell, how does one start a listserve?
I really don't know I'm afraid, I would ask one of the group leaders if you're truly interested
Claire/Cleo