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</div><div style="" class=""><span class="" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Dear
Empyryans. When I first read the introduction to this topic I was put</span></div>
<div style="" class=""><span class="" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">in mind of
ideas on extending university activities, the per se concept of what</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1425541185845_11129" style="" class=""><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1425541185845_11128" class="" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">a
university is and does, taking the school into society at large, etc. So it’s
good </span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1425541185845_11127" style="" class=""><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1425541185845_11126" class="" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">to hear elizaBeth on the
importance of going beyond to “blatantly transect the town/gown divide.” There
are obvious social advantages to this. In terms of art</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1425541185845_11131" style="" class=""><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1425541185845_11130" class="" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">it is also
fairly obvious that familiarity with critical or specialist concepts enables</span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1425541185845_11133" style="" class=""><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1425541185845_11132" class="" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">greater
appreciation of certain allusions or practices. Important meta-artistic factors</span></div>
<div style="" class=""><span class="" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">in films
today are available to readers of Derrida, for example, or Barthes. But</span></div>
<div style="" class=""><span class="" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">maybe I’m
preferring academic concepts over street savvy. Not my intention, at</span></div>
<div style="" class=""><span class="" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">least not
consciously at the outset. At least. </span></div>
<div style="" class=""><span class="" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">In my mind
at least this conflates with Mimi’s post. There is perhaps more osmosis</span></div>
<div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1425541185845_11141" style="" class=""><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1425541185845_11142" class="" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">between
school/street these days. Quoting; “So the question becomes what constitutes a
‘living’ outside of and not dependent upon our present and possible
productivity as laborers for institutions such as the military, or the state,
or the corporation, which might want to force upon us a particular form of
living that, as Lauren Berlant put so well, is meant to both prolong our lives
through these continuous adjustments to our capacities, and also wear us out?”
Personally what draws me most about this question is its
life-positive nature. In a sense it’s a question asked in every art object.
There is perhaps a
duality, a kind of how do you do your work and how do you get your work done. Of
the institutions we’re talking about, which would be available to a beneficial society?
Would institutions be replaced by some other arrangement? The other day on Twitter
I came across this proposition: That a past cannot exist until a future has been<br></span></div>
<div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1425541185845_11139" style="" class=""><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1425541185845_11138" class="" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">been built
to contain it. I haven’t yet found the source of that. Possibly someone on the list
will know. Anyway, thoughts on these different things... With best wishes,
William</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1425541185845_11197" style="" class=""><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1425541185845_11138" class="" style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><br></span></div>
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