[-empyre-] Re: blogging blanchot

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

At 6:33 +1000 15/6/02, katherine parrish 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...

yeah, not quite how blanchot does it :-) though there is interesting 
stuff about narrative seduction (about how narratives model sort of 
mise-en-abime moments of seduction inside themselves) that might be 
fun, particularly since the pleasure of seduction is of course 
deferral.

> >  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!

ha. someone with as many blogs as you wants me to speak plainly!!??
but i don't think i was mocking actually, and i certainly didn't mean 
to. i liked your idea of the countdown clock and the anxiety that the 
world's about to end so of course there's a generation that won't 
shut up. and i liked that idea because i do think it offers a counter 
to those who see the net as only being noise. and i think considering 
your writing as a writing in the face of possible nuclear 
annihilation is a much stronger theoretical position than say a sort 
of smug pomo thing about simulacra and the loss of the ability to say 
(because i think blogs show that we've got plenty to say). theres a 
book which of course i haven't read by someone who i don't remember 
called 'blanchot and the demand of writing' and i am somone who's 
into the demand of writing (being the card carrying posthumanist that 
i am).

> what?
>
> what??

i think i've dealt with the whats. have i?

cheers
adrian miles
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