Re: <documenta X><blast> public disasters (genealogy)

Greg Ulmer (gulmer@ucet.ufl.edu)
Thu, 3 Jul 1997 12:49:29 -0400 (EDT)

Hi Jordan

I will try to clarify how disasters of all kinds are addressed
by the emerAgency. I may use more than one post to mark distinct phases
of the project.

The emerAgency is the most recent manifestation of the Project for a New
Consultancy sponsored by the Florida Research Ensemble.

(aside: how far back should I project this genealogy? Jordan has asked
me a direct question and my first impulse is to answer him as
straightforwardly as possible; to communicate my intention from sender to
receiver in an unproblematic way. Problem: I am not very interested in
my own intentions or at least my understanding of electracy is that
intention and the whole obsession with illocutionary effect that Olson
traced through the history of literacy is much less important in
electracy. What counts now is perlocution, pragmatics).

Hi Jordan

Let me start over.

Greg Ulmer * * * * * * *
http://www.ucet.ufl.edu/~gulmer/