SNICKER

Dear Colleagues & Starving Liberal Artists
 
I’m trying to make good use  of  the notion
                     SNICKER
a term a colleague coined years ago
acknowledging  that  certain seemingly
“idealistic” ideas   when mentioned  in
professional academic  environments
(inclined to empiricism and instrumental
application)  will  generate  resistance
often  signified by a snicker, a raised
eyebrow,  tongue in  cheek perhaps,
rolling eyes—all of which represent a
borderline transgression between two
or more incommensurate realms &
source of  emergence and emergency
crucial to innovation—the news that
comes out of  noise. . .
 
Snicker etc lets you know you are in the
interstices. Crossroads between amateur
and pro, say—or maybe individual idiocy
and the common sense. Outlaw territory.
In-Betweener-Land. Trespassers W.
 
Years ago, driving north from Durham to
Hartford in a 61 Buick Le Sabre loaded with
 xmas  gifts, two children and goodwife,
cruising up 95 thru Virginia around 6 a.m.,
a  sudden red wink not unlike a snicker
appeared on the dashboard signaling  some
thing amiss in the total system,  problems
of  generation, generator, alternator, voltage
regulation perhaps: wink winks but  never
specifies. .   .
 
Monkey wrenching my
North-to-Connecticut
cybernetic thesis-driven
cover-the-ground  agenda.  
Winking a sign of significance. 
 
Be aware. Be wary. Beware
 
Frontiers yet unknown,  collision  trajectory
among matrices, frames of reference, agenda,
belief & bias systems:  snicker tells me so.
 
Wink. Rolling of eyeballs.  Whole System
signaling: Oyez! Oyez! Obey! Obey!  Love it:
Factor-it-in--  the  messengers & monsters.
The  stalwart pioneers and amateur standings.
Assess.  Evaluate. Put into play.

xxxooo, Sam  (Summer Forum Seminar
24/7  Volunteer Faculty L Development
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