frater222 wrote:
nobody needs to be losing patience with bob...he is THE bob....all hail/hell bob
as far as i understanding it:
phatic is 'how are you doing'?
"Menippean phatic is: 'how YOU doing?' (ie: like how joey does it on the show friends)
thats alteast how i understood ion describing it.
like, its ironic .... the inherent irony in that we are communicating...
is that about it bob?
BOB: That's a useful beginning place, frater. A deeper understanding comes when one realizes our daily electronic/digital technological environments (what I call the "Android Meme") is engaging in Menippean phatic communion among its parts or "constituents" (what people generally and imprecisely think of as the "media").
Foo Fighter gets close to how "real" or "alive" the media/Chip Body/Android Meme is with his signature quote:
“I made it all up, and it all came true anyway. That’s the funny part.”
- Robert Lees (a character in the novel FROM HELL):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Hell[From Hell is a comic book series by writer Alan Moore and artist Eddie Campbell speculating upon the identity and motives of Jack the Ripper. The title is taken from the first words of the "From Hell" letter, which some authorities believe was an authentic message sent from the killer in 1888. The collected edition is 572 pages long. The 2000 and later edition are the most common of all prints.]
Most of my statements on the radio over the last 25 years were, and still are, considered "guff" (bullshit, fabricated) but, I assure you, are actually as true as any other recognized truths (outer kingdom "truths"?).
When my output is taken as "guff" (but only on that level), then the Robert Lees quote above applies to how Carolyn, JW, and I "created" iON.
Bob Neveritt
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