File spoon-archives/lyotard.archive/lyotard_2003/lyotard.0312, message 86


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?)
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