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hold on to the corners of today
16 October 2002 - 4:35 pm
i drew a really good doodle in my last class. it was a 13 pointed star with lots of layers and rays pointing all over the page. and i drank tea out of my thermos. my teacher drew a geneology of anthropologists on the blackboard, showing who influenced who, and who had related ideas, all the way down to his teacher, him, and then us (his students). we are the indirect child of boas and levi-strauss. (but i still haven't found my tribe).
i have this 500 page anthology of situationist writing that i'm reading for my paper due on friday. i read about 150 pages of it last night. i'm afraid of this paper because situationists are notoriously hard to define and i don't want to say something stupid... i also have to figure out how to relate it to postmodern art, either performance art or appropriation.
"their life, as they arrange it and perceive it, is less a flow than an on-off pulsation of meaning and vacuity, an alternation of short periods when 'something' (that is, something significant) is happening, and equally short ones where "nothing" (that is, nothing much) is-- between what they themselves call 'full' and 'empty' times.
rame means crowded, noisy, and active, and is a highly sought-after social state: crowded markets, mass festivals, busy streets are all rame. it is what happens in the 'full' times (its opposite, sepi, 'quiet', is what happens in the 'empty' ones). paling is social vertigo, the dizzy, disoriented, lost, turned-around feeling one gets when one's place in the coordinates of social space is not clear."
-clifford geertz
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