[-empyre-] some thoughts on complicity

[Johanna Drucker]

I wonder if it is possible to keep complicit from carrying a  
pejorative connotation? I meant for it to be a description, not a  
judgment, that exposes the inevitable condition of participation in  
cultural conditions as the place from which we each think, work,  
write, live. I'm not a religious person, but in a way, this is  
equivalent to acknowledging a form of original sin in cultural terms  
-- that we are all always part of the conditions we survey. Does that  
make sense? I'm trying to avoid binarisms that might spring up by  
putting complicit on one side of a value judgement, that's all.

Johanna