AUT: Re: multiple name project

[billbartlett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Bill Bartlett)]

Luther Blissett wrote:

>This has a relationship to the discussion on free speech, in that the
>multiple name project aims to create a new relationship between the
>speaker and what is spoken.

Yes, the effect is one of freeing the author from any personal
responsibility for what is said, without the reader being aware of the
anonymity. But this is nothing new, surely? It has been going on for ages,
what's the big deal?

>A lot of debate has been around speech acts being seen
>as completely seperate from  other acts. If you feel your sense of reality
>has been toyed with, this precisely confirms what I have been saying.

What have you been saying again?
>
>When I write about a woman being confronted by racist graffitti on the
>Docklands light Railway, I am writing about my experience.

So what if you ARE the woman confronted by racist propaganda, how does that
make the example any more convincing?

[...]

>In truth, I am not myself sure where the LBMNP will lead.

When I carried out a similar multiple name project, it led to me being
investigated by the DSS, and raided by the Federal Police. The authorities
have little patience with this obscure branch of the sciences and no sense
of humour whatsoever.

Bill Bartlett
Bracknell Tas.




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