Date: Wed, 12 Jul 1995 03:09:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: Spoon Collective <spoons-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU>
Subject: Re: mouthwash, horrific (fwd)




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Date: Tue, 11 Jul 1995 22:16:56 -0700
From: Tom Walker <knoWWare-AT-mindlink.bc.ca>
To: list-proposals-AT-jefferson.village.Virginia.EDU
Subject: Re: mouthwash, horrific

laurie wrote:

>But when the experimentation is not recognized as experimentation, what
>then? Lisa Rogers found your experiment offensive and inappropriate for
>this list to the point of wanting to unsbscribe. I don't know if she
>did. In terms of metadiscussion, what point did you wish to make with
>your experiment, and what are your conclusions with regard to it?
 
Hey, just a damn minute, there. What is this? Scientific Method? Hypothesis 
testing? _Mouthwash_ was *my* experiment and it was APPROPRIATED 
(appropriately enough, since it was an experiment about appropriation). But 
it was an experiment that, in my judgement, was appropriate to the 
list-proposal list because it proposed a model of an alternative way to 
think about a list -- even if it *was* hackneyed. (For close readers, I'll 
reiterate that the "small literary magazine" designation was one I raised 
and then shot full of "post" holes. I-R-O-N-I-C, isn't it?)

My chronology has John Young's salty word play getting out of hand (to my 
taste) and Tom Blancato objecting to the implications of JY's words. Lisa 
Rogers seems to have objected to TB's explicit restatement of JY's word-spun 
seafaring rape imagery. Malgosia bemoaned the anti-dialogic character of the 
whole exchange just hours before a conversation broke out. See what happens 
when we try to explicate the implicit?

Would somebody please explain?

Tom Walker
knoW Ware Communications
knoWWare-AT-mindlink.bc.ca
http://mindlink.net/knoWWare/




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