> I appreciate your remarks, Justin particularly improving in the field of
> Iraq survival realities which no doubt extends to the Iraqis, as well. For a
> very good recent book I recommend Michael McGee¹s Emancipating Pragmatism
> (University of Alabama Press). He does a wonderful job of exploring pragmatism
> and improvisation from Emerson, through the objectivists up to a wonderful
> look at the friendship and relationship of Frank O¹Hara and (then) Leroi Jones
> and jazz and Billie Holiday at the Five Spot. As criticism, in addition to
> being smart and informed, it¹s written with genuine affection and love for its
> subject not bad from an academic press!
>
> Stephen V
Blog: http://stephenvincent.durationpress.com
>
> the entire operation is perhaps an intelligent de-signing thru
> reterritorialization and re avant-garde (and quite rare) military theory texts
> like _Shock & Awe: Achieving Rapid Dominance_. which renders the whole
> bomb-to-rebuild blueprint as an intelligent re-signing.
>
> somehow i found myself reading the aug '05 Popular Mechanics, and in it was an
> article about how troops in Iraq are figuring out new ways to use their
> weapons and implements, improvising responses to unprecedented combat
> situations. i find the analogy to poetry as political empowerment interesting
> in this regard. each machine demands its own language, each language demands
> its own grammar.
>
> jUStin
>
> On 8/20/05, Stephen Vincent <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> I am sorry I can't help it. It's become clear to me that the invasion of
>> Iraq was built on the principles of "Intelligent Design." In fact I cannot
>> understand why this country's leading cartoonists have not seized upon the
>> clear relation between "Operation Iraqi Freedom" and "Intelligent Design." I
>> won't even tire myself or you into the inevitable symbiosis of the two
>> projects. And the intensity of President Bush and Vice President Dick
>> Cheney's unstinting support of the co-allignment of each piece of faith.
>> Indeed it is a stupid "Faith Based" project, or one that is disguised as
>> such over a purely imperial one such as "I am going to get your oil" and/or
>> determine the fate of your country (by these same guys who are so in favor
>> of "States Rights." !!)
>> Why we must suffer this disaster, this metaphysic, this concept of
>> "Intelligent Design" that has absolutely no correlation to "facts on the
>> ground", that is the reality of Iraq, continues not only to astonish me,
>> but also brings untold or only partially told literal suffering to the
>> Iraqis and to "our" troops. It's blankety-blank crazy.
>> I do hope the boomerang is about to strike. Cindy Sheehan's witness in
>> Crawford has obviously got under their - the Bush & Co. - skin. The right
>> wing is obviously trying to strike back with every hysteric and
>> spin-manipulative move they can muster. One, or, at least myself, can only
>> pray and act that something huge and massive in this republic - if it still
>> is one - can arise and correct this self-destructive, totally mal-designed,
>> unintelligent madness.
>>
>> Of course, one might imagine, "Intelligent Design" is meant to infect and
>> kill the usefulness or need to poetry. It's built on the most
>> counter-pragmatic vision of language imaginable. The fixities of this
>> so-called "Intelligent" vision render linguistic improvisation, or the
>> language of poetry and political empowerment and process, a dead horse in
>> the wind.
>>
>> Is it not more than time for writers to go on the counter-attack - or???
>>
>> Stephen V
>> Blog: http://stephenvincent.durationpress.com
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