TiR's Unwritten Blog Posts
(for 2009) (in the spirit of George
Steiner)
as per
TiR's (ever pointless) notes, from the past year:
January:
lessons from Charles S. Peirce's "How to Make Our Ideas Clear" (1878) on the relationship between "[cheerful] hope" and scientific method
February:the totally overlooked centrality to Tehching Hsieh's year-long "Cage Piece" (1978-79) of his lawyer, Robert Projansky
March:the urgency of a new New Deal for black Americans
April: Hyperopia, or why TiR never saw the Ramones or James Brown live in concert
May: "Welcome to the Visit of the Amateur Performance Troupe 'A Stove in One Hand, a Gun in the Other Hand' from Albania," published by the Editorial Office of the Jianggang Mountain Fighting Report at Jiangxi Normal Central College, November 1967
June: business meetings: the Levinasian view
July: astroturf political rallies as tool for marketers' research on size, affluence & prejudices of potential customer base
August: Raymond Duncan's 1947 proposal for a "New Paris York" or new Atlantis, a utopia formed by transatlantic passengers' dropping of stones from their ships' decks at latitude 45N, longitude 36W, the halfway point across the Atlantic
September: on Jean Wahl's 1943 remark, "To make a world today, it takes nothing less than the world."
October: a survey of TiR's favorite marginalia found in old volumes scanned on GoogleBooks
November: After Coleridge moved to Keswick, 247 miles from London, how on earth, and from whom, did he score his dope?
December: Self-Googling: its shift from embarrassing secret habit to universally expected & mandatory social practice; or the inversion of etiquette rules and transvaluation of values in the digital age
Will
TiR develop and publish these posts in 2010? Or ever? Who knows?
Here's to another year dedicated to better learning, among other things, the humble and tricky art of knowing, as often as possible, exactly how, when, before/with whom, and why to keep one's mouth shut.
posted by TiR at 7:01 AM
