Erm. Does it matter? I'm FB "friends" with Garcia Lorca, Sappho and
Rilke as well as Pound - never assumed they were actually behind the
web pages.
And it's kind of fun.
xA
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> That's exactly what happened in the case of Slavoj Zizek. Someone asked him in person
> in Istanbul whether he had ever set up Twitter and Facebook accounts. He said no.
> Twitter apparently double-checked and then removed all traces of SZ's frontal identity.
> Even though I had believed and had even sent him a response to a direct invitation post, I
> wasn't particularly disturbed by the impersonation, eventually taking it as a performance.
>
> Pierre Bourdieu on Twitter four hours ago: "Ask me anything:" Twitter must have a
> different policy if the figure represented is deceased.
>
> Barry
>
>
> On Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:12:18 +1100, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>>It shouldn't be so easy to impersonate another.
>>
>>Are any checks done?
>>
>>eg ask Prynne, Zizek, Pound, etc., can that possibly be you?
>>
>>On the other hand, it pleases me that old Ezra is there.
>>
>>Reminds me of having to sign 'present' at Friday's French literature lectures in
>>Auckland in 1955 -
>>
>>the dead outnumbered the living -
>>
>>Victor Hugo was a regular.
>>
>>Max
>>
>>Quoting Barry Alpert <[log in to unmask]>:
>>
>>> The absence of JHP's students and the so-called "Cambridge School" from the
>>> list of his
>>> "followers" on Twitter makes me wonder who is responsible for that account.
>>> I was more
>>> convinced by Slavoj Zizek's presence until direct questions revealed that he
>>> had never set
>>> up a Twitter account.
>>>
>>> Barry
>
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