File spoon-archives/foucault.archive/foucault_1994/F-3, message 87


Date: Sat Nov 12 18:54:37 1994
From: Tom Blancato <tblancato-AT-envirolink.org>
To: foucault-AT-world.std.com
Subject: Re: a-legal distribution


Ok,  so in lieu of that (though 800 hours is not really needed to enter a 
short volume)--and emphatically,  I'm not out to keep our philosophers from 
making their fair share---a number of points:

1.  Some lists have called at times for close readings.  Close reading in a 
group/list could be facilitated not only by inclusion of more text,  but 
possibly even special programs whcih do certain things to texts.  For example, 
 a given passage is sent to everyone,  then certain programs,  like the kind 
which handl replies to messages,  enable "insertions of comments",  spacing 
and differentiating the text.  Generally,  every shift in the "ground rules" 
and media has potentially dramatic effects for how things go,  what gets 
understood,   etc.

2.  My general encouragement is that people try to enter long quotes (not book 
length),  not simply for people who don't have the book,  but as a practical 
way of reading posts against a text. 

3.  Generally,  it's not clear whether entering texts on computer would 
necessarily lessen profits for computer people. 

There is,  incidentally,  a very interesting,  and typically unlikely 
normalizing logic in your of cource joking guess that the entered book would 
end costing exactly the same thing as the book.  "So you see,  everything 
turns out the same..."  The interesting question for me,  and of course 
lessons concerning technology should have us suspicious enough by now for 
this,  is how they might be different.


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Tom Blancato                    Not satisfied with the progress.
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