Cheese Danish #35

[Dave Monroe]

Ah, yes, much baiting of the flame here ... but will I take said bait?
Not as such, not so as to return the (dis)favor.  "Virtual defiance of
copyright law"?  Interesting pun there, first off.  And an interesting
complaint in this, our (and it IS ours, I'm with Nader on that)
copyright-defiant virtual space.  And copyright law is a particular
interest of mine.  Thinking of taking those LSATs at the next possible
opportunity, figure that, as I'm past my academic prime, maybe it's time
to resign myself to going over to that brightest area of the dark side
at least.  Else advertising, or the Society of Jesus.  Whatever.

But my inspirations for those "pages and pages of wordy"--not my
wordiness, of course, but ...--"quotes"--and do note that I tend to cite
ALL my sources, I believe very strongly in giving credit where credit's
due, hardly the inclination of a notorious copyright violator, and,
being one who often goes to the bibliography, footnotes, endnotes,
FIRST, I personally appreciated knowing where people are getting ideas,
iunformation, from, that follow-up thing--were, here, Kai's similar,
albeit not quite as extensive, postings, and, elsewhere, not only my own
method of taking notes from my paper-writin' days, but, also, such handy
resources as Simon Reynolds' (Blissed Out, The Sex Revolts, Generation
Ecstasy a.k.a. Energy Flash) online "Rave Theory Tool Kit," @
http://members.aol.com/blissout/toolkit.htm.  Something I imagine Kai
might well have stumbled on himself, but, hey, if you haven't.  Jus'
tryin' t'be helpful, is all ...

"Random"?  Actually, I've been quite pleased not only with just how
relevant those little items that cross my path are, but with how I think
I've managed to sketch the general idea/theme/argument/whatever of any
given text and/or excerpt tehreof I've excerpted here.  If they've been
of no use to you, well, hey, not everything will be.  But am esp.
interested in the point Tiffany, for example, makes about not only the
pneumatic origins of automata, but about the association of automata
with the musical, the oracular, the uncanny, the angelic.  About the
articulation of poetics and mathematics, say, those mathematical figures
mapped by such tropes as the parable, et al.  And I plan on posting more
to that effect, so ...

Now, on these "impersonations," hey, sorry, have two e-mail addresses I
use, depending on where I am, what I have access to, but do note they
are clearly in my name.  As if I could disguise my particular online
idiolect.  Nota bene: was very early on under the influence (...) of a
professor who, realizing that he himself was no doubt implicated in the
conferral of authority by virtue of one's position, by virtue of one's
very rhetoric, that academic publishing grants, even as one critiqued
said conferral of authority, experimented with writing more colloquially
and publishing anonymously.

My rejoinder was that anonymity, or even pseudonymity, might well be
read as a certain abdication of responsibility, as a disavowal of one's
words.  But I kept that counterauthoritative colloquialism bit, esp. in
such presumably informal situations as, say, a listserv discussion
group.  Hence ... but, again, I'm here to float a few bits of info,
maybe even a few ideas, not to mention catch a lift from whatever might
drift by.  I'd say sorry if I haven't floated yr particular boat, but,
hey, I read plenty of stuff here I find myself having no particular
interest in, use for, as well, so, no apologies, as none needed ...