<x-charset ISO-8859-1> hello david divizio wrote: > deveriL wrote: > ..." re-configure (I won't say re-define)." > > re-"anything" .... removes the work (whatever it is) from "art" in the > context of the Contemporary....whatever THAT is... > > Configure is adequate here...in no way critisizing the overall post.. > > ...just food for thought > so we need to know our digits and language and code words, for credit cards and credit/s in the arts. while working hard to recycle what waste and trash we produce (no second layer of discriminatory hints intended) ---- -----but we can of course say, when it comes to information, we 'forward' and 'paste', and avoid calling it 'recycle'. or, we might suggest to call re-sponding... MIDI-ing. (although, as tech metaphors tend to, it describes less than what we do.) Re: food for thought, Re, two letters identical, while not obvious the derivation (ab-lative) from res, the thing, matter, subject ---- ----shall it be safer then to write out translations, 'in the thing', 'on the subject/ matter of' ...? how about a babylon program, updateable and upgradeable, automatically editing our language and ...thinking. (btw, it would have to know that re-duction is a very ok notion and word) (or is that out of fashion) to close on a non-reductive note, con-figure is adequate - and fine thing/s addressed, intended by - - - ..and w h a t would we do without RE-LATING ? ! ! best wishes indeed, Iris PS: for those of you interested in (German)/ language/ culture, i have been observing a frequent use in intellectual circuits of the word "beliebig", (which can signify: freely selected /as it pleases you/ randomly chosen, or anything goes), implying the worst kind of criticism in contemporary art, similarly disqualifying as David suggests about "re-". what I find interesting here: the central adjective "lieb" (- likewise a never-to-be-said as description, goody-goody ) actually means dear, "Liebe" is love; and further variations: lieblich, liebevoll, liebreizend, liebenswert, liebenswuerdig (~ lovely, loving, charming, loveable, endearing etc) - are all 'old vocabulary' and totally out of fashion. now what does that perhaps say about what we value, .....or care to and dare to admit - - ??? .... Iris Tenge Kinkelstr. 10 60385 Frankfurt Germany Tel/Fax + 49 - 69 - 444 373 mobile + 49 - 172 - 66 13 033 e-mail iristenge@freenet.de </x-charset>
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