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[_shellster_]

I've been reading the anarchist literature scattered about Becca's digs, picking and choosing my way through.  Most of my beliefs are well aligned with the anarchist movement, and I think this is often reflected in my writing.  I can't really say any of it has challenged my thinking too much, largely because I already agree with what is being said.

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welcome back!

[purloinedcoin]

Granted, I still hold that there remains some legitimacy to the "empty-vessel" technique, I can see how in certain cases, this technique has merely reinforced incidents that may be read as patriarchal, heteronormative, etc. etc. I'm still ambivalent, if not downright suspicious about seeing the technique as a whole as faulty. That is, whenever I've been talked down to, for good reason might I add, it was never the sort of methods that I questioned as the methods themselves seemed fairly clear. And perhaps this is my own naive reading of those incidents. As for the whole judging cross-country issues from afar and in the comfort of one's home, one of the solutions proposed by Zizek is that there should be more alienation. At first, though skeptical, as the grain of the concepts that attend it rub against the gears of feeble mind, I'm finding it as rather comforting. That is to say that we ought to realize that, as you said, we will never understand every side of the story and perhaps a step back might be what we need. It's isolation that admits itself as isolation rather than isolation that poses as cosmopolitanism, multiculturalism, or what have you. Of course it would be hard for me to sum it up in two lines, since making abstracts is not my forte, but I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on this as I understand how it may run counter to liberal ideology, whatever that is nowadays. But within the context of my understanding, Zizek in no way is proposing we make like ostriches and pretend none of this contact with "the outer world" ever happened. OK, I'll stop here.

thanks!

[_shellster_]

this should be a discussion we have in person. but quilty, where-ever are you? are you in santa barbara? i am in santa barbara. are you going to becca's party on friday? i am going to becca's party on friday...

Re: thanks!

[purloinedcoin]

I'm in IV right now about to head out to L.A. in a few hours. But I should be back up by tomorrow and sticking around for a...bit. But yeah, it seems like you've been keeping busy loading up on all sorts of info and thangs back east, and would love to pick at your brain, at your consent of course, for a few.

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[_shellster_]

okay. do you have my number? i hesitate to leave it here lest roaming computer bots get it and telemarket my number.

Re: thanks!

[purloinedcoin]

ya know? My phone actually crapped out before I was able to save all the #s on it elsewhere, so I've been adding to it slowly but surely. My number, however, is 2 1 3 - 2 8 0 - 3 4 9 4, if you're gonna still be around after tomorrow, since from the looks of it, you have a fairly busy roam'n schedule ahead of you. Chances are you're at the party rubbn elbows with auld lang acquaintances, so I'll leave you to doing yer thang.

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[_shellster_]

hey, i tried giving you a ring but you are out of service or something. lame. so im leaving saturday night, not sure if we will catch up with eachother but if not, look me up if you are going to be in berkeley/bay area in the nearish future....