Babette Babbich wrote:
>
> could you lengthy correspondents quote and counterquote
> each other privately?
> or is this stuff meant to be interesting?
>
> I was rather viciously attacked for daring to post a jesting
> <yawn> after several such massive missives of
> nichts und wieder nichts...
>
> ah well ...
>
>
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The "rather viciously attacked" attacks back rather viciously. Not
against those who attacked her, but against those long-winded enough
to bore her. The discursive violence of flaming just begets more
violece; I suggest you learn to employ the delete key.
2 further points:
Perhaps what makes our back-and-forths look like 'correspondence" is
the fact that we bother to be formally polite to one another...
It is rare that something "interesting" about Heidegger gets
communicated in 'the sound-bite politics of a fast food generation'
[M. Franti] which are apparently better suited for your consumption.
Response is the beginning of responsibility; co-respondence the
beginning of community.
Iain
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>
> could you lengthy correspondents quote and counterquote
> each other privately?
> or is this stuff meant to be interesting?
>
> I was rather viciously attacked for daring to post a jesting
> <yawn> after several such massive missives of
> nichts und wieder nichts...
>
> ah well ...
>
>
> --- from list heidegger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---
>
The "rather viciously attacked" attacks back rather viciously. Not
against those who attacked her, but against those long-winded enough
to bore her. The discursive violence of flaming just begets more
violece; I suggest you learn to employ the delete key.
2 further points:
Perhaps what makes our back-and-forths look like 'correspondence" is
the fact that we bother to be formally polite to one another...
It is rare that something "interesting" about Heidegger gets
communicated in 'the sound-bite politics of a fast food generation'
[M. Franti] which are apparently better suited for your consumption.
Response is the beginning of responsibility; co-respondence the
beginning of community.
Iain
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