Thank you Alan for having the eye for the detail and the courage to
push this sad and wonderful story to where it came today. The choice of
Hans Blix as pseudonym added a wonderful twist to it all - as did
Cindy Jackson, now I just have to get rid of this image of a bearded
man with a blond wig and lipstick.
Cindy/Ken wrote:
"These private letters taught me that the authority of sound argument
and the force of rhetoric count for more than the perceived social
position of the speaker. On one hand, it means that some fears about
power distance are groundless here."
That is not my conclusion, I think that the power distance is created
in the words!
I am who I am:
Mads Vedel Jensen
Ph.D Candidate, Msc
User Centred Design
Mads Clausen Institute
University of Southern Denmark
Tel: +45 6550 1662
Fax: +45 6550 1660
On 18/10-2004, at 8.44, hans BLIX wrote:
> if i am wrong this will be most rude
>
> but is there anybody else on this list who has the feeling that the
> posts of
> cindy jackson (the plastic surgery artist?) are sometimes so like ken
> friedman's that they come from the same person?
>
> a recent example that have caused me to want to investigate this
>
> here is what ken thinks of heidegger in a post a couple of months ago
>
> "It is often difficult to discern Heidegger's meaning or intention
> within
> the oracular opacity of his prose. The prose -- like the messages of
> Delphi
> -- can be made to mean whatever the reader wishes."
>
> and this is what cindy thinks of heidegger in a recent post
>
> "Heidegger is an opaque figure who can be used in an oracular fashion
> to
> justify nearly any position on any topic."
>
> and then cindy did say
>
> "Dear Jonas,
> It's OK.
> I was a tomboy anyhow.
> ;)
> Cindy"
>
> there was a thread just the other day about etiquette and ethics. does
> the
> list have a feeling about if people can use other identities?
>
>
> Alan Sokal
>
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