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| jenny surge on Wed, 16 Sep 1998 16:25:06 +0200 (MET DST) |
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| <nettime> it is drunkenness |
The word is spelled drunkenness. Maybe you were drunk when you wrote
this?
When you speak of drunkenness you speak of elation a "sur-conscious mix",
"restless culture" and a "convoluted happening called lifetime". It seems
you are intent on a way out and around the close down, the scattered
skepticism; this century's mal-aftertaste. You ask we discontinue
romanticism while you concurrently beg a poetic embrace of the Modernism's
fallout. A reclamation of the spiritual or would you say new relations
with operators at the psychic level? Would you call this progress or
would you call this simply update?
I consider progress as steeped historical and rational. I consider update
more of a happening more ahistorical. More suited to misunderstandings.
I think of technology as a lucid and single-minded series of diversions.
It is truly odd to consider a callout for drunkenness via a medium so
sober as the internet.
Your text falls apart. It is full of holes. Is this exposure? Is this a
haphazard transmission that simply suggests we are one though collective
dissonance? Is this your point? If so then I would hope for more. I
would demand more than what I consider to be your forced comfort in
futility of gesture. "There are places on the other sides of here..."
Then where are those places or have I asked the simpleminded question and
should instead be comforted by the un-knowing and reliability of these
transmissions.
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