something excessive...

Our contention is that queerness pushes hard at the limits of composition. It asks that we consider not only what is not composed, but what refuses to be composed. Put another way, if queerness is the excess of sexual identities, the part that exceeds easy and knowable encapsulation in identity, then it is also the excess of composition, of the composure of stories, narratives, arguments, and texts that are “composed.”

Only an expert...

Jonathan and I (and Mack and the LAW) saw Laurie Anderson last night at Royce Hall (UCLA). Wow.

E.M. Forster

"People never touched one another. The custom had become obsolete, owing to the Machine."

Don't you?

Suggestion for installation

Jonathan writes:
Hi Debra--

I'm checking in with you again about the possibility of a digital media/arts installation at Watson. Jackie Rhodes and are still very interested in seeing what we might be able to set up. Here are two of my projects that I'd very much like to put on display:

phonesex : a digital collage [to be shown at the Electronic Literature Organization's conference this summer.]

dis|orientation : a digital collage

Jackie has some wonderful photoshop manips and other projects, all of which, along with my interactive webtexts, might productively be called:

multimedia|ted e|visceration : a queer critique

Let me know if you still want to talk! Hope so! This could be great fun...and fit in beautifully with your conference theme.

Hope you are well :-)

j.

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To Debra Journet (Jonathan)

Hi Debra!

I'm really looking forward to the Watson conference next year...twill be fun :-)

I've been talking with my dear friend Jackie Rhodes (CSU, San Bernardino) about proposing that we do an installation on (roughly) gender, sexuality, literacy, and new media for the conference. Can we talk--you and I--about parameters, equipment, possibilities? We've just been brainstorming, but I'd love to get a sense from you of the possibilities here...

Looking forward to chatting...

...and, in the meantime, please accept my best wishes for a safe and happy holiday!

j.

Choo-choo blues

At the Riverside-Downtown Metrolink station, Jonathan finds out how helpful the "Passenger Info" phone is.