Sunday, March 8, 2009

Strategic Planning II

Infrastructure Talk

Bridges and highways and canals and
twitter and electrical grids, wind- power
and solar: all that talk refers to:

infrastructure,
media

and NOT to the Goods & Services &
truck loads of bananas, color tvs &
music, medicine & surveys of American
literature: all the stuff I want & need &
use & abuse that structures my life, say:
the things that carry me into more.

Infrastructure is transparent.

Who sees it?

Nobody until it starts breaking up, pot holes and
power lines down, bridges dumping commuters
into rivers, tent cities springing up in Sacramento
and Santa Cruz and rightly or wrongly polar bears
& snail darters falling under the radar with Circuit
City
vanishing as vanishing species. .

Content of our discontent becomes Ways & Means:
shovel-ready infra-structure across the curriculum,
context becomes text; figure shifted to background
& media is now the message: our house of usher &
delivery system..

It's a good thing.
.

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