IVIV (8): Division Semifinals

[John Bailey]

Ah, that's a wonderful essay. Love the way it attacks the notion of
irony as a critical tool, too. Should interest P readers.

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Tore Rye Andersen <torerye at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> John Bailey:
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>> We might increasingly feel part of a big, diverse mass, but
>> we're really just barrelling along alone in the fog in our
>> insulated automobiles.
>
> Cf. this bit from David Foster Wallace's "E Unibus Pluram -
> Television and U.S. Fiction":
>
> "Television does not afford true espial because television is
> performance, spectacle, which by definition requires watchers.
> We're not voyeurs here at all. We're just viewers. We are the
> Audience, megametrically many, though most often we watch alone:
> E Unibus Pluram." (A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, 23)
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