>
> That doesn't strike me as contemptable at all, Kel. Just conscious praxis
in
> the concrete moment. We're dealing with surfaces here - real horror and
real
> deaths, but epiphenomena nevertheless. Radical change is urgent, and
perhaps
> the case for it is communicatively stronger now than it has been ever
since
> Vietnamese villagers and American boys were dying on our screens.
>
Rob, is a smell a surface too? I only ask because depending on what's being excavated at what little is left of the WTC, a pretty foul smell will circle around lower Manhattan. On the day of the attack, it reached as far as the neighborhood in Brooklyn where I live. -- Curtiss