Really. everyone speaks that "everything is changed" since 9/11, but I don't
think that is necessarily so. Yet, it seems like that in every issue we
raise, there is a new, post-9/11 perspective, so perhaps it is true. At
least, interpretive practice has taken a new turn or complicated itself
since the attacks.
-Tc
Anthony R. S. Chiaviello, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Professional Writing
Department of English
University of Houston-Downtown
One Main Street
Houston, TX 77002-0001
713.221.8520 / 713.868.3979
"Question Reality"
> ----------
> From: Steven Bissell[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 3:23 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: normal mayhem
>
> Tony, just a follow-up to the article about the animal rights group
> wanting
> to link hunting (hunters) to terrorists in NY. As I said, I have no idea
> what it means. Are we more likely to see violence in a new light since
> 9-11?
> Probably so, but I have no insight as to how that may be. I was in
> Australia
> for the month following 9-11. What I heard the most about was the
> resistance
> of American politicians to implement gun control and the American delusion
> that the US was a safe country. But, I still do not know what it all
> means.
>
> Steven
>
> On the other hand, prophets have a way of outlasting politicians.
> Gandhi
> has outlasted Nehru, and it appears that Confucius will outlast Mao
> Tse-tung.
> Huston Smith
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discussion forum for environmental ethics.
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Chiaviello, Anthony
> Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 1:34 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: normal mayhem
>
>
> Steven et al
>
> I guess you're joshing about the fishermen. I'm sure such an incident
> would
> be of no more than interest in a pre-9/11 world. It does raise the issue
> of
> how much standard mayhem (not this in particular) has been reinterpreted
> and
> re-attributed since the NY/DC attacks.
> -Tc
> Anthony R. S. Chiaviello, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor, Professional Writing
> Department of English
> University of Houston-Downtown
> One Main Street
> Houston, TX 77002-0001
> 713.221.8520 / 713.868.3979
> "Question Reality"
>
> > ----------
> > From: Steven Bissell[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 1:37 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: FW: News Article
> >
> > I guess we have to add fishermen to our list of potential terrorists.
> >
> >
> > Angler killed over Florida fishing spot
> >
> > Six-man brawl breaks out over fishing spot; three men arrested
> >
> > Associated Press - Nov. 25, 2001
> >
> > ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. - A man was killed Sunday, Nov. 25, in a brawl among
> > six anglers vying for the same fishing spot.
> >
> > Craig Alan Buckley, 35, died on the Matanzas Bridge on Florida's east
> > coast. The cause of death was pending results of an autopsy, St. Johns
> > County Sheriff's officials said.
> >
> > Three men were arrested, including Buckley's brother, David Todd
> > Buckley, 37, of Peoria, Ill., who was charged with aggravated assault.
> >
> > Kenneth Eubanks, 39, of Tallahassee, and James Robert Nelson, 36, of
> > Palatka, were charged with manslaughter. Nelson also was charged with
> > aggravated assault.
> >
> >
> > I'm really not sure what all this means.
> >
> > Steven
> >
> > To say that "I will not be free till all
> > humans (or sentient creatures) are free" is
> > simply to cave in to a kind of nirvana-
> > stupor, to abdicate our humanity, to define
> > ourselves as losers.
> > Hakim Bey
> > The Temporary Autonomous Zone, 1985
> >
>
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