Friday, March 21, 2008

Benediction





Ways of Talking: Ways of Seeing

“Thus strategic analysis protocols
that may appear to be and, indeed
are, entirely rational and logical,
are not interpretable as such at the
neuronal substrate level where
thinking takes place.”

The difficulty lies with the inability
of the brain to make out meaningful
(i.e. strategy-provoking) stimuli from
the mental images (or depictive
representations) generated
by strategic analysis tools.”

Neurocognitive Inefficacy of the Strategy Process.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
(2007)

Dusty Benedict told me how he hauled
his Triumph into the art studio north of
Kittredge and parked it in the middle of
his classroom to see what kind of reaction
he’d get from his art students. .

Nobody said a word.

“Nobody even saw it, Sam,” he claimed,
and I thought he was exaggerating like an
artist will overstate for emphasis, but noooo.
he insisted they never even saw it. You know
how-it-is artists talk!

Flannery O’Connor claimed she had to talk
in LARGE WORDS OUT LOUD sometimes
for the hard of hearing (some thing like that:
she was a “monster” remember) and these
days we just call IT attention deficit disease
and that’s as close to a decent diagnosis
as DRI: depictive representational
inadequacy.


Sure they saw it, your Triumph.
They just weren’t going to talk about it..
Pity the fool who’d point out the obvious, Dusty.

I got four First Yr Seminary advisees (members
of my "Stupid Club") with some kind of D or F on
their transcripts & I got to advise them to consider
services we have at hand for good study habits &
decent marks. Light an intellective and affective fire
under their buts: givem some strategic analysis
protocols that might could be interpretable at their
neuronal substrate where thinking takes place &
and may be not so entirely rational and logical as
we like to be talking about it but what other ways
do we got to maintain and retain for crying out loud?

I’m just asking. Who’ll be the first to talk about the
Triumph in the classroom? Throw the first bone.
We can chew on it all together now.

xxxooo, Sam

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