From: gvcarter-AT-purdue.edu Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 11:26:06 -0500 Subject: RE: deleuze - baker L, Earlier I posted a message w/ regard to Kill Bill that moved to suggest that the (camera) cropping of Lucy Liu in the final fight sequence shared something w/ Artaud's Theater. That is, when the character-without-a-proper-name (played by "Uma," a name that un/necessarily enters the parlance of talking about the film) cleaves Lucy, the liminal line "[ - - - - - - - -- - - -- - - -]" between the theater goers movie-frame and inside film is realized. (This mov(i)e is evident, I might suggest, in the *bleep* that deletes *Uma's* characters name and renders "Uma Thurman" as a name that may well act, as Derrida suggests with "Francis Ponge," in a descriptive way. (See also the curious conflation of numbers and actor names at the film's start.) So far as Baker's work is concerned the liminal lines scatter rapidly. For example, there's something uncanny about suddenly discovering that he has written about entitled "U and I" that explores his relation to John Updike after having just posted on Alfred Chester's reaction to U. (Hugh, as a sidenote, perhaps this is illustrative of the "future anterior" question you raised...I don't know.) In any case, Baker's Double Fold is curious for what it shares with, say, Sven Birkerts The Gutenberg Elegies that laments the passing of books for the electronic age. In D.F. Baker chronicles his goal to save actual newspapers from being dumped by libaries or chopped up for trinkets. He spends a 1/3 of his life saving's, in fact, to build a library/warehouse in New Hampshire in 2000 to save the British Library discard of these yellowing relics. He didn't intend to do so when he started, but, well, he got swept up. Baker's active is an active luddite, if nothing else. "Enrico" recalls Enrico Fermi and (en)Rico Sauve, the latter a one-hit wonder from the early 80's on MTV. Well, off to find that Calvino reference to the Invisible City...and the Zizek Deleuze text! geof Quoting Lydia Perovich <fauxprophete-AT-hotmail.com>: > Hm, for some reason my email escaped the list-serve address and went > directly to Geof. Well this is just a doppelganger email of that brief > email... > > [ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - -- - - -- - - -] > > L. > > (Enrico, when you get a chance could you give us your take on the > Corrections?) > > _________________________________________________________________ > The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail > http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/bcomm&pgmarket=en-ca&RU=http%3a%2f% 2fjoin.msn.com%2f%3fpage%3dmisc%2fspecialoffers%26pgmarket%3den-ca > >
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