File spoon-archives/lyotard.archive/lyotard_1998/lyotard.9812, message 33


Subject: Re: after PMC
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 1998 15:54:19 -0600




>Eric,
>
>I see myself as having disrupted your reading, not having
>read your rules and so forth.  I didn't even realize you
>were having a shared reading.  Please do carry on.  Does
>this mean that you don't want any off topic posts (meaning
>not tightly tied to the readings) on this list until your
>readings are through?
>
>I don't think I'll participate in the shared reading at
>this time, but let me suggest that it is sometimes useful
>in such readings to post difficult passages for people to
>respond to.  Sometimes the disputes of meaning are easier
>to understand and unravel when there is an excerpt to
>center the conversation -- or so I have found.
>
>..Lois Shawver


No, this is not what I meant at all
       this is not what I meant at all

I seem to have added to the confusion.  I am sorry about that.  In the first
place,whether structured or unstructured, any reading we do should not be
the exclusive conversation on this site, in my opinion.
I personally welcome a wide range of conversation. (Ideally, Lyotard should
present, at least in a tangential way, but this still opens quite a bit of
territory; continents!)

Lois, I personally value the comments you have been making.  Please, don't
feel like you have disrupted anything.

I have the same problems as everyone else in keeping to a schedule, so I am
very open to finding ways to cover texts and topics, while keeping things as
flexible as possible.

(As I am reading everyone's responses, I am suddenly feeling very anal
retentive.  Believe me, this is a whole new experience for me to have.)

My feeling is we are moving in the right direction, and I am getting a
strong message that we should keep the discussion open and flexible.  I
agree with this.

I apologize if I came across earlier as critical or negative.  I just want
to find ways to enhance the process here.






   

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