File spoon-archives/nietzsche.archive/nietzsche_1995/nietzsche_Sep.95, message 76


Date: Wed Sep 27 08:21:31 1995
From: Tom Blancato <tblancato-AT-envirolink.org>
Subject: Re: Interpretation vs. Life




Perhaps it is because, like Nietzsche, many particpants of this list in fact 
operate in tension with and against a ground which itself retains many 
commitments to a certain polemical basis/tradition/psychology. We have seen 
the disasterious effects of Nietzsche's attempts at spiritualizing "war", at 
least via misappropriation (grounds enough to give the poem in question a 
second look, for reason of one's own safety!), but perhaps this condition and 
its effects have also presented themselves to us in the case of Nietzsche, as 
well. 





HIJINKS-AT-utarlg.uta.edu writes:
>If KRYMT-whatever's poem is so bad (which by any poetic standard it is),
>and his tactless belligerence so distasteful, why has it generated so
>much mail on this list?  More than any other topic lately.  I smell
>self-indulgence, and more.  Give it up.  Move on.  You're giving a 
>hack what he most desires: recognition.  Without it, without 
>antagonism as a resource, he would either "get better," or try harder,
>or go away.  Any of which would be preferable to this overall insipid
>exchange.
>
>--thomas
>
>
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Tom Blancato
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Eyes on Violence (nonviolence and human rights monitoring in Haiti)
Thoughtaction Collective (reparative justice project)




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