Date: Sun, 25 Feb 1996 13:59:03 -0500 (EST) From: "Bryan A. Alexander" <bnalexan-AT-umich.edu> Subject: Re: nomad Sterno cocktail! yes! but: Bryan Alexander Department of English email: bnalexan-AT-umich.edu University of Michigan phone: (313) 764-0418 Ann Arbor, MI USA 48103 fax: (313) 763-3128 http://www.umich.edu/~bnalexan On Sat, 24 Feb 1996 Fellhand-AT-aol.com wrote: >... > of course we academics are pretty stuck in our institutions, at different > locations. but this not to say that we can't write weird books (even publish > them), teach our students subversion, and all in all act irresponsibly. of > course, the institution may eventually extrude us, providing us with the > opportunity to develop a line of flight, perhaps fetching up under a bridge > somewhere with a sterno cocktail. > > crispin > But often we can't act irresponsibly. I think of Yale, where folks I know have been hurt badly for acting on interestingly molecular desires. Or of my University's library, named after a President who fired three tenured faculty during mcCarthyism. And how weird can our books be? D+G teach us the possibilities, the opening within even the most oppressive, the intensities within concentric surveillance. But there's nomadism and nomadism, I guess - maybe I'm reading AO too closely, now... ------------------
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