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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