Date: Tue Jun 13 05:06:36 1995
From: Tom Blancato <tblancato-AT-envirolink.org>
Subject: Forward to this list from private post



This is forwarded to this list from a private post with Dirk's 
permission.
 
Tom:
 
I guess it's an OK idea to create lists for subjects, but isn't one route as 
bad as another route?
 
for example, if we do talk about bahktin in a list named DIALOGIC -- fine, 
as far as that concept goes... but what if someone wants to talk about 
another aspect of bahktin?  instead of the current "hey, there's a good 
conversation about lack/negativitity going on in the X group right now, all 
you people on the Y group talking about this may want to listen in" it'll be 
"hey, all you on the LACK/NEGATIVITY group, Deleuze's concept of lack is 
related to the way he reads Nietzsche, see PHILOSOPHICAL_READINGS for a 
discussion of this... and there's another good discussion on the same thing, 
but from a different perspective, going on in the DELEUZE list... the 
NIETZSCHE list also has some good stuff, but they think Deleuze is full of 
it... but don't bother with the ETERNAL_RETURN list, since they won't talk 
about LACK/NEGATIVITY there..."
 
my vote would go for someone developing a "majordomo+" program where, for 
example, people could supply keywords for themselves and (any and all) posts 
to the server containing those keywords could be sent to them...  on 
request, one could be sent a list of active keywords... at the same time, 
areas (lists) could be created that one could subscribe to... still, if 
someone is interested in (say) lack, it would then be possible for someone 
to tune-in on discussions of lack from wherever they might originate...
 
I guess the real problem is how to assert some sort of "control" over a 
"list" without squashing avenues for discussion...
 
Dirk

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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
tblancato-AT-envirolink.org
Eyes on Violence (nonviolence and human rights monitoring in Haiti)
Thoughtaction Collective (reparative justice project)
521 Main Street
PO Box 495
Harmony PA 16037
412-453-0211


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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
tblancato-AT-envirolink.org
Eyes on Violence (nonviolence and human rights monitoring in Haiti)
Thoughtaction Collective (reparative justice project)
521 Main Street
PO Box 495
Harmony PA 16037
412-453-0211



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