From Unhalfbricking... which is a new, and wholly welcome, one on me....
Listen up all kru ---- especially those drones who have not yet posted and who are nervous about doing so -----
'Mark having been joined by Paul Meme (Shards, Fragments & Totems), Nina (Infinite Thought) and John Effay. Far from diluting the quality, it's ratcheted up the intensity...pages and pages of cultural analysis, larded with freshly-minted terminology which becomes almost hermetic (katak? uttunul?)'
My model for the kollektivized k-punk would be something like alt.movies.kubrick when it was good i.e. up to about 18 months ago - it had ten to fifteen high quality posters participating in a inter-inciting k+ process of kollektive intensification (that reminds me, I must invite amk's absolute star, intensobotic genius and frequent victim of idiot American anti-Irish racism Padraig L Henry if he'll honour the kollektive by joining.) Now it's dominated by dullards posting on Kubrick trivia....
So the moral is: learn from the bolsheviks. The bolsheviks refused the liberal compromise tactics of other groups such as the mensheviks who favoured the production of the widest possible consensus. They opted instead for a policy of 'splitting' whereby the chaff of shilly-shallyers and equivocators could be shorn away to leave a core group of those absolutely committed to revolution at all costs. And then they took over the whole of Russia...
My ambitions for k-p don't quite extend that far lol.... Yet, any way....
But the point is, I've only asked people who I think are capable of contributing to the network. I am not a liberal, I am ruthless. So if you have been asked to join, it's because I know from seeing what you can do that you can make a real contribution to the kode-trading marketplace that k-punk is becoming....
As for 'uttunul' 'katak' 'hermeticism' etc I've asked Dr Linda Trent, Professor of Fictional Systems at Miskatonic Virtual University (MVU) to begin preparation of a k-punk glossary. She's a typical scholar (i.e. reluctant to post until every last footnote has been triple-checked), so I might have to exert some pressure on her to get k-punk and post (you can always revise later, Prof...)
Posted by mark at August 30, 2004 06:06 PM | TrackBack