Re: [-empyre-] Re: blogging blanchot

[parrishka <parrishka@sympatico.ca>]

Adrian Miles wrote:

>
> wow, katherine takes us into blanchot territory : -)

well, actually i was jetting in from foucault land - (language to infinity).

(Answer: What is "french theorists that rhyme with "oh")


>
>
> writing of the disaster.... writing in the face of (literally) death.

and i haven't read any blanchot, so i'm a bit blind here.
and i don't know if this is how blanchot takes it up
but i'm thinking about it in a sort of Arabian nights kind of way- the narrative
postpones the inevitable...
while we still write, we're still alive... kind of thing...

>
> 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 :-)
>

ok :)

i think i can read your tone well enough to get the sense you're mocking (albeit
cordially) this idea here..
but i'm not sure why?
speak plainly, man!

what?

what??

katherine


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