The Alan Sondheim Mail Archive

March 6, 2004


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---prolegomena - against collaboration--
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---collaboration: take it or leave it--
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---collaboration: take it or be taken--
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---the violence of collaboration--
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---collaboration as 'grappling'--
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---collaboration with the enemy--
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---because one is a collaborator and one's hair is --
---shaved--
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---because one sleeps with the enemy or is raped --
---by the enemy--
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---because one is employed by the enemy or agrees --
---with the enemy--
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---in the resistance one was being with or in the --
---resistance--
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---jazz performance in a concentration camp--
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---the cutting performance of a jazz performance--
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---collaboration is something forced and something --
---radically forced and something freely given - or --
---collaboration is sometimes forced and sometimes --
---radically forced and sometimes freely given--
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---team player: exchanges and transfers of power, --
---transformations of power into power--
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---labor in capital - roles and role playing--
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---a role is _always_ a collaboration--
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---in the sense of: collaboration with the enemy--
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---beneath the referent of capital --
---is the signifier of the role--
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---within the aegis of the ideality of pure --
---quantity--
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---is the construct of power in exchange--
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---collaborative exchange is void of value--
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---value is the limits of collaboration--
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---the emptiness of collaboration - pure labor--
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---and camaraderie - and for its own sake--
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---a pure and meaningless circulation, --
---guaranteeing nothing whatsoever ---
---no more than the individual - working alone--
---in pure and furious production--
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---collaboration is always better than working--
---alone--
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---when you work alone all your problems appear--
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---when you collaborate everyone helps you with --
---your problems--
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---collaboration sublimates - subsumes - desire--
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---sublate desire--
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---there is nothing inherently positive about --
---collaboration--
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---there is nothing inherently contemporary --
---about collaboration--
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---structured collaboration has its limits--
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---the limits are loci of power or authority, --
---whether established from within or without--
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---of course the writer always collaborates with --
---the reader--
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---indeed, this is collaboration with the enemy--
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---there is no love lost here-
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---collaboration is always already inauthentic --
---love mediated by labor described as the 'labor --
---of love'--
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---collaboration is a violence--
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---one always collaborates with the enemy--
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---one always collaborates--
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jump in

Run together if possible looped.

http://www.asondheim.org/jumpin.mov
http://www.asondheim.org/jumpinn.mov

12 megs each and unfolding structures

Don't be like that... Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great
design is often to ruin it.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got.


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primal primordial originary

the going cat for going a for cancer an operation
cancer in operation a in perfect perfect cat
emulation of perfect way

moving moving through through lifetime lifetime
thught thught and and trust

and emerging and successful emerging victorious
and after victorious well and on well its on to
its way and well on its way to recovery


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