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Re: School of Missing Studies
Bernard Roddy
Jan 21, 2004 18:21 PST
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I guess I thought this was a good place to mix discourses. Sorry to have been misled. I'm not going to bother with corrections or comments on the reprimand about "cooperation." For those who take interest in this, such hostility has always made discussion lists difficult. Bravo to Geert for the encouraging tone his posts always have. "tobias c. van Veen" <tob-*at*rhizome.org>; wrote:[1]
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[snip] If X = Hegel's philosophy; and X also as Hegel's philosophy is Hegel's method, dialectics; then let X be used to examine X; thereby producing-- X! Progress! (Where's the cooperation in that method? The 'other' required for all cooperation?) The 'missing' project is interesting, insofar as it sounds like a bazaar of the weird. An exchange of the esoteric. "Useless, unfiltered, too filtered information, here, there, gone, missing!" A politics of excess and absence, perhaps? What is missing for me, in my particular niche, is a positive understanding of the energies & tactics, politics of disappearance & mobility, temporality & space, distribution, replication, & dissemination of global yet particular rave culture. I've pasted an email below I just received today in response to a text that demonstrates & performs the 'directionless' aspect of those who felt involved in a sub/culture throughout the '80s/'90s, and today find themselves classically lost ('classically' as this appears patterned through the sub/cultural model--a model which today, I believe and through patterns of information sharing/networks, has changed and shifted, from content to force of distribution, but we'll end there). The point? Understanding rave culture as model of spontaneous cooperation--not ideally, but tactically, acknowledging all consumerist, hierarchical, sadomasochistic, overly-hedonistic, drug-laden tendencies. best, tobias ---// EMAIL.PASTE "hey: i don't know how my boy got a hold of it, but he forwarded me your peice "warehouse-nettime03". i just wanted to give you props. [accolades snipped] knowing there are others out there who are still thinking and who won't forget is a big deal, i just wish i knew what to do next. im there too. i know these ghosts also, and there are many nights when they won't let me sleep. but the warehouses are empty and the cause for the music has long since passed and there is nowhere to go. im an architect, or im trying to be one. it used to be that my art and the culture that i loved were fused into one, and i lived the architecture of the warehouse just as i drew it in school. but now im doing something else- i guess i do it now for my wife and my daughter more than any other reason- but the sense that it was part of a movement is totally gone now. now its just fragments. now its just work, just a job, just something im doing for the time being, just another day. but it helps, every once in a while, to hear it from another voice. anyway, i never write random e-mails to people i don't know. but i wanted to let you know that it was good to hear from you all the same. thanks, [name removed] ." tobias c. van Veen ----------- http://www.quadrantcrossing.org http://www.thisistheonlyart.com --- tob-*at*quadrantcrossing.org ---McGill Communications------ ICQ: 18766209 | AIM: thesaibot ------------------------------ http://freecooperation.org Archive: http://www.topica.com/lists/collaboration/read --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes -- [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] |
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