Er, Liz, I also think Seven of Nine was an attempt to boost viewing figures
by bringing to attention prominences of a different nature to Spock's ears!
Now the Borg Queen's an interesting cultural comment.
david b
----- Original Message -----
From: Liz Kirby <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 12:31 PM
Subject: Re: "definitions" of My Poessays
> Seven of Nine was surely the 1990's attempt to bring this nexus up to date
and feminise it?!
>
> (note how a wedge was driven in to make way for her in Hugh!)
>
> Liz
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: david.bircumshaw [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2001 9:09 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: "definitions" of My Poessays
>
> Now if you could only work in James Blish, Robin, as he worked on the
early
> episodes of Star Trek, we might even get to Mr Spock and all his logical
> relations
>
>
> david b
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Robin Hamilton <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2001 12:05 PM
> Subject: Re: "definitions" of My Poessays
>
>
> > From: david.bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>
> >
> > > Please, please Uncle Robin, tell us a Nice Story about Conspiracies.
> > > Pleeeeease.
> > >
> > >
> > > Korzybski? Sixties?
> >
> > Hey, really truly don't know?
> >
> > Count Alfred Korzybski, author of +Science and Sanity+ and founder of
The
> > Institute of General Semantics+, frowned on by most orthodox linguists,
> but
> > one of his proteges, Hakayama (sp?) gets footnoted regularly.
> >
> > IGS tends to be low-profile (nottosay low-maintenance) +but+ ...
> >
> > Sokal forefronts Chomsky in _Intellectual Impostures_, but if you chase
> the
> > footnotes, a helluva lotta the ones (linguistics) he mentions are tied
in
> to
> > IGS.
> >
> > So you have this neato leftist tie-in of Sokal/Chomsky/Korzyski.
> >
> > And lets not bring up the possibility that the whole (what there is of)
> > intellectual basis of Scientology derives from Van Vogt rather than
LRon,
> > and kicksback to GenSam.
> >
> > Conspiracy theories? I have them like a cat has fleas ...
> >
> > Robin
>
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