Date: Thu Jul  6 21:47:26 1995
From: Tom Blancato <tblancato-AT-envirolink.org>
Subject: What happened?


What happened? The discussion just stopped. Why? I think it's because we sort 
of made it through some of the initial spaces that were of interest. I was 
done articulating my points, perhaps the same goes for others. Perhaps we 
found ourselves, beknownst only perhaps to some of us, at the edge of 
something, the transgression (non-moralistic sense of transgression) would 
mean experimentation. I say, onward ho! How's about it, Malgosia? Care to set 
up some experimental lists? It would be fishy if *all* of suggestions or 
questions about experiments were fully redirected to "other places", it's 
having already been tried/done. And grist for my mill. 

A rough form: Try a coupla lists (if it's not too much trouble) and then come 
back to this list to reflect on the process from a certain "outside". Or would 
it be too artificial? We would have to resolve, with grim determination, to 
participate on that list as though we were doing so independently of it's 
inception or conception in this list. This makes for interesting logics of the 
fold, leakages from "outsides", and so forth.

Well, just a few thoughts.

Regards,

Tom
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"It is only after one ceases to reduce public affairs to the business of 
dominion that the original data in the realm of human affairs will appear, or, 
rather, reappear, in their authentic diversity."  -- Hannah Arendt

Crises of the Republic; lying in politics, civil disobedience on violence, 
thoughts on politics, and revolution. Hannah Arendt [1st ed.] New York, 
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich [1972] pages 142-143

Tom Blancato
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Eyes on Violence (nonviolence and human rights monitoring in Haiti)
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