Re: [-empyre-] WHO DAT? AN WHO US?

[Simon Taylor <swht@clear.net.nz>]

But of course, Randall. Howard Barker, the English dramatist, once stated -
possibly in socio-poetic self-defense - 'complexity is itself a political
position of some strength' - but then at the time there was a left left.
Are you proposing a Free Tirade Agreement? Or do disinformation and the
application of deconstructive strategies suffice in the artistic-engagement
stakes?
yours
simon


> Simon: would you be interested in a position in the Department as
> Official Wordsmith and Speech Crafter? Perhaps an Under Secretary
> role... You have brilliantly captured our efforts to articulate
> multiple layerings of meaning as socio-poetic antidote to the
> pervasiveness of bureau-speak that threatens us as a free,
> imaginative, and creative people!
>
> Randall
>
> >Dear Empyre,
> >Firstly, I would like to thank <<empyre>> for hosting USDAT and opening
up
> >contexts and throughputs for discussion which have hitherto remained
rather
> >blank spots (for me) simply in terms of links and inputs of information
> >about what kind of mobilisation is at work inside the US in the virtual
wake
> >that precedes - in the virtual prolepsis of science fiction - the long
and
> >rapturous funereal spree of the presidential elections. Fortress
Washington
> >remains rather taciturn, laconic, to the extent of NY's
self-congratulatory
> >but revelatory loquacity. At first glance a virtual State Department is a
> >local take on NSK's autonomous artistic state but I see, on closer
notice,
> >that USDAT sits very much within an internal debate and spreads not a
word
> >or letter before-the-letter that cannot be immediately recuperated by the
> >State in its moment of authoritative auguration as nothing other than
> >itself. The founding moment still works as the monument - in petris (?) -
> >lapidary - of the founding Fathering. But I don't know: am I responding
to
> >the astounding literalism - technoliteralism - of that cultural
difference
> >requires founding and fathering?
> >Secondly, it's always a rise, however anodyne, to meet a culture, however
> >virtually, so avowedly - liberally - paving its way with the best of
> >intentions. And secure in its own identity if not its big 'it' of having
> >asked for 'it': global threat and international partnership at the level
of
> >government.
> >Thirdly - and I'm sure I've breached the netiquette in not doing so
> >before-this-letter - I should introduce myself as a New Zealander (yes,
our
> >government still seeks the Holy Grail of a Free Trade Agreement with the
US
> >despite what it's done for blooded Canada) and a dramatist, director of
> >Stronghold Theatre Company since 1992.
> >yours,
> >simon taylor
> >
> >
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