Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 09:57:07 -0400 (EDT) From: fido <jfr10-AT-columbia.edu> Subject: Re: Daydream Tom, I am still not clear on FPSP-[Heidegger], and something in your last post made it even more confusing. Do you mean PNPN-[Heidegger] as in proper name? Or do you mean [I][you]-[Heidegger]? SUBSTANTIVELY, I think a listname with a million hyphens or a million initials (an acronym) is a dud. Sorry, it's the 90's. I want it in prose. I wonder what positions you feel have evaporated from conversation? We seem, here, to be having an exchange of shifters I/you, one thing you seemed to be interested in (and, incidentally, one thing that some people have been engaging with from the beginning of spoons, off and on). Sometimes this is good; sometimes this is not good, as when one [you] gets delegated specific material authority--a situation which, it seems to me, this list is meant to question to some extent. For my part, I keep bringing up historical time in the form of spoon-history because we don't need to reinvent the wheel--it's a bit boring, actually. There is a set of experiences in that history, perhaps not located in any one individual or archive, that has substance and bearing on this list right here, why this list is, why we can send posts like these to this list, etc. For example, early on it became clear to me that the most effective posts --in terms of readable, digestible, respondable toable--stayed within a 2- or at most 3-page limit. There was a discussion about post-length and it seemed that this was a generalizable perception (obviously with some variation). This may seem boring, but I'd put it to you that these kinds of phenomenological details (and here I'd include the thing about listnames) have everything to do with your positions. Perhaps there is some confusion because this /seems/ to be a schizo list: is it practical, like will something specific in the form of new lists come from it? or is it woolly? I don't see these as distinct from one another necessarily, but I'd like to see the wasted spaces--seminar-##, or those PN lists which are dead in the water--either weeded out or put to some use before spoons even THINKS about metastasizing into a version of exactly what smothered Kent Palmer's project in the first place. -f ------------------
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