tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post1320215640890009031..comments2023-09-29T02:49:02.989-07:00Comments on An Emphatic Umph: Nothing is More Normal than the Weirdness of the WorldDaniel Coffeenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03912050391869734890noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post-21002319831675654112012-03-13T20:40:19.577-07:002012-03-13T20:40:19.577-07:00I have read Guattari's 3 Ecologies. I'm a...I have read Guattari's 3 Ecologies. I'm also looking at a book called Hypermodern Times and some network theory - Bruno Latour. I just presented on Delillo tonight in what will be my last presentation as a student - last semester of course work for PhD - and I linked Cosmopolis with Hypermodern Times. Gilles Lipvotesky I think is the author. Anyhow - what I love about his work is that he claims that the hypermodern is a produce of opposites that aren't mutually exclusive - it's not a Derridian decontruction - it's not that opposites bleed into each other - it's that you can stand in a line at a bank, it can take forever, but at the same time money is moving at hyper-fast speeds (this is my example not his) and at the same time check your iPhone and be in 4 places at once. So I think that is a good starting point to think about the network/solitary, but he's not as complex/profound as Deleuze and Guattari.drwatsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16184322472302989822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post-75394384354303920262012-03-13T18:22:17.641-07:002012-03-13T18:22:17.641-07:00@ Dave: Thanks, as always, for your comments and t...@ Dave: Thanks, as always, for your comments and time. I'm curious how you're going about your network/solitary work. Are you reading Guattari's 3 Ecologies?Daniel Coffeenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03912050391869734890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post-40129011398351693262012-03-12T18:03:35.064-07:002012-03-12T18:03:35.064-07:00I've been swamped and haven't had a chance...I've been swamped and haven't had a chance to check out your blog in a week or so. I just finished writing my first post in a couple weeks and then thought of this blog and checked it out - and as per usual - man you've got a talent for making the complicated not just approachable but seductive. I've used one or your posts in my class, actually - because of that reason - it's approachable but it begs to be played with. <br /><br />Anyhow - I'm not trying to just be nice - I hope you know that.<br /><br />But what I thought of was this time I was playing this gig on a little outer bank island. Solo gig, opening up for someone. And after I struck up a conversation with a random person and we got on this kick about how weird it was, how many random things had to happen for us to have this banal conversation. And then the conversation immediately became non-banal. <br /><br />Something about the interplay between the network and the solitary form of existence are what I'm wanting to think about now - anyhow - I'm writing quicker than I can think - Got to present on Don Delillo tomorrow and I need to do some work. <br /><br />Pleasure as always. <br /><br />Davedrwatsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16184322472302989822noreply@blogger.com