[-empyre-] Re: blogging blanchot

[Adrian Miles <adrian.miles@uib.no>]

At 12:00 +1000 14/6/02, empyre-request@imap.cofa.unsw.edu.au wrote:
> Many of the a-lister bloggers are in their early 30's (i only refer to them
> cause they're the ones still getting interviewed, and writing the books that
> get taken up in popular discourse...) as I am, and I remember sitting in the
> auditorium in highschool, being told that the doomsday clock was at 2 minutes
> to midnight. I still can't listen to that song, "dancing with tears 
> in my eyes"
> without breaking down. Pretty sure these fears still haunt my generation on a
> deep level.

wow, katherine takes us into blanchot territory : -)

writing of the disaster.... writing in the face of (literally) death. 
lordy, that's a great idea. what i *really* like about it is it 
offers a very powerful methodology to account for the desire to 'say 
as display' that the web (possibly the net full stop) evidences. so 
when that older generation moan and groan about all the fluff on the 
web then rather than defending it as a postmodern postpastiche play 
of surfaces it is a writing in the face of disaster.

nah. not convinced :-)

cheers
adrian miles
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