tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post1327890975544308831..comments2024-03-10T20:46:19.274-04:00Comments on In the Middle: Postal Systems, Affect, and Going Astray: Aesthetic SolidarityCord J. Whitakerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06224143153295429986noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-1293454544876161682011-12-08T09:17:34.554-05:002011-12-08T09:17:34.554-05:00what will happen to going "postal"?what will happen to going "postal"?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-91146645237117199412011-12-07T10:07:16.858-05:002011-12-07T10:07:16.858-05:00Sounds fun. Postal thoughts, for me anyway, are a...Sounds fun. Postal thoughts, for me anyway, are always opportunities to revisit *The Crying of Lot 49* & think about silent Tristero's empire. Which is something I always like to do. From "too much kirsch in the fondue" to "The Courier's Tragedy..." If postal networks are also paranoid conspiracies or possibly narrative inventions for Pynchon, does that ask us to re-think the pleasures of solidarity?Steve Mentzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02927244468764583378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21165575.post-57471684270086361642011-12-07T08:56:41.952-05:002011-12-07T08:56:41.952-05:00Good stuff. I'm thinking especially of the env...Good stuff. I'm thinking especially of the envoi to the Clerk's Tale (I bet you are too), as it goes astray so spectacularly, and as it's such a baroque object, too clever in the way that, say, a handmade postcard is too clever (is it Chickering who wrote that fantastic article on the envoy's structure?). There's a kind of queerness about it, then.<br /><br />In re: the postcard, maybe it's just because I recently taught some Bhabha on modernity and split subjects and temporal lag, but I wonder if your paper will be able to/want to engage with the peculiar time and need of the US Postal Service, which in rural and especially rural poor communities serves needs that simply won't be met by for-profit institutons, if the USPO pulls out/is allowed to collapse? The arguments on the left for the preservation of the USPO are long and varied and currently forgotten by me, but I can dig up links by tomorrow if you want themmedievalkarlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12440542200843836794noreply@blogger.com