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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>,
"WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject: first newsgroup post, possibly of interest?
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 15:43:07 -0400 (EDT)
Been looking through Google Groups for my first post - as follows - I don't know why this is still of interest, but my interests seem to have remained fairly consistent over the past decade or so. It's one of the old bitnet lists/newsgroups - no idea if it's still running. As usual I have spelling errors - Lyotard's differend was meant which is all the differance in the world - Alan From: Alan Sondheim (SONDHEIM@NEWSCHOOL.EDU) Subject: Re: Harvey Pekar on Letterman View: Complete Thread (6 articles) Original Format Newsgroups: bit.listserv.screen-l Date: 1994-05-18 15:31:25 PST It is certainly relevant to discuss Letterman since this is also a video discussion group. I do watch the show, on and off; there are periods when I watch it a great deal. At this point the show is fascinating from a theoretical viewpoint because of its complete absorption of conceptual/postmodern attitudes of fragmentation/cynicism/cynical documentary - and turning these attitudes into a completely sutured surface, as modernist as any glass and steel office-building. The show is perfect in its way. As far as Pekar is concerned, he's always of interest - as are other "discomforting" guests - because they permit the show a degree of latitude, the reification of a subaltern opposition that in reality plays into Letterman, i.e. the role of (Lyotard's) different. It's interesting also in respect of all of this to watch Conan O'Brien's show which is always in the process of working itself out - WORKING - the labor of the thing is evident. Alan Sondheim