Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.58.0403060031450.15984@panix3.panix.com>
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: ---prolegomena - against collaboration--
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2004 00:32:22 -0500 (EST)
----- ----- ---prolegomena - against collaboration-- ----- ----- ---collaboration: take it or leave it-- ----- ---collaboration: take it or be taken-- ----- ---the violence of collaboration-- ----- ---collaboration as 'grappling'-- ----- ---collaboration with the enemy-- ----- ---because one is a collaborator and one's hair is -- ---shaved-- ----- ---because one sleeps with the enemy or is raped -- ---by the enemy-- ----- ---because one is employed by the enemy or agrees -- ---with the enemy-- ----- ---in the resistance one was being with or in the -- ---resistance-- ----- ---jazz performance in a concentration camp-- ----- ---the cutting performance of a jazz performance-- ----- ---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-- ---- ---team player: exchanges and transfers of power, -- ---transformations of power into power-- ----- ---labor in capital - roles and role playing-- ----- ---a role is _always_ a collaboration-- ----- ---in the sense of: collaboration with the enemy-- ----- ---beneath the referent of capital -- ---is the signifier of the role-- ----- ---within the aegis of the ideality of pure -- ---quantity-- ----- ---is the construct of power in exchange-- ----- ---collaborative exchange is void of value-- ----- ---value is the limits of collaboration-- ----- ---the emptiness of collaboration - pure labor-- ----- ---and camaraderie - and for its own sake-- ----- ---a pure and meaningless circulation, -- ---guaranteeing nothing whatsoever --- ---no more than the individual - working alone-- ---in pure and furious production-- ----- ---collaboration is always better than working-- ---alone-- ----- ---when you work alone all your problems appear-- ----- ---when you collaborate everyone helps you with -- ---your problems-- ----- ---collaboration sublimates - subsumes - desire-- ----- ---sublate desire-- ----- ---there is nothing inherently positive about -- ---collaboration-- ----- ---there is nothing inherently contemporary -- ---about collaboration-- ----- ---structured collaboration has its limits-- ----- ---the limits are loci of power or authority, -- ---whether established from within or without-- ----- ---of course the writer always collaborates with -- ---the reader-- ----- ---indeed, this is collaboration with the enemy-- ----- ---there is no love lost here- ----- ---collaboration is always already inauthentic -- ---love mediated by labor described as the 'labor -- ---of love'-- ----- ---collaboration is a violence-- ----- ---one always collaborates with the enemy-- ----- ---one always collaborates-- ----- ----- -----