File spoon-archives/deleuze-guattari.archive/deleuze-guattari_1996/d-g_Feb.96, message 81


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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