Re: Re: Sandwichman and Deconsultant

[Chris Burford <cburford@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 20:12 03/01/01 -0800, you wrote:
> >PS Tom, I am nervous of your signature line about Sandwichman and
> >Deconsultant. In the context of a very tricky theoretical discussion, I am
> >not entirely joking. Could you explain this in a separate post?
>
> I appreciate the anxiety. It is a long story so I'll just fill in some of
> the details. The sandwichman in question refers to his/her/its/my status as
> "last incarnation of the flaneur", according to Walter Benjamin and as
> elaborated on by Susan Buck-Morss in a 1986 essay in New German Critique,
> "The Flaneur, the Sandwichman and the Whore: The Politics of Loitering".

I see a flaneur is a stroller.

Doesn't a sandwichboard get in the way?

Or is it to protect against missiles?

Or to attract them?

You sound like a sort of amiable electronic sophist, enigmatically
wandering from city state to city state attracting curious attention and
playing with the intelligence of those who might be interested.

Anyway, good luck.

I'll come back to the major theme in the other post.

Chris Burford