[New-Poetry] politics and poetry

[Anny Ballardini]

Sorry for cutting out the previous message by Skip which is very interesting, Plato like with caves but boxes, and waiting for Bob's reaction which promptly arrived, I feel like siding with Bob and I think the same Derrida is happy with the idea of new boxes, let me add a couple of colorful balls, books, and movies, and I am just set.


From: "Bob Grumman" <bobgrumman at nut-n-but.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 8:04 PM


   
> I see taxonomy's goal as making better boxes, and--especially--boxes 
> inside boxes.  They're necessary, and inevitable.  Necessary, because 
> you can't make sense of the world with them, however flawed many are; 
> inevitable, because--in the final analysis--they're simply the making of 
> names, which is all language is.  Ergo, if we don't want them made by 
> the wrong people (such as those making them deceptively for the sake of 
> money or an ideology), we have to make them ourselves.
> 
> --Bob
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