That last entry that unwittingly delved into the world of Bataille’s Visions of Excess and his “Fundamental Conditions of Fascism,” lead me away from the subject that spawned the entry in the first place. The original subject I intended to write on centered around topic of the Ulmer’s “Widesite.”
I had hoped to introduce the concept of the Widesite in my previous analysis of the fascist elements in assembling representation of identity through professional and personal e-mail addresses. I wanted to describe how Ulmer’s Widesite might serve as a means of overcoming these fascist elements by providing a through-line, so to speak, to these seemingly desperate identities.
So now, as I consider the widesite in relation to my early entry of professional and personal e-mail addresses, I think to myself that some experience or some wide-image must have informed the rules that dictate the way we assemble identities. What ideologically-charged images, for instance, informs us to establish separate professional e-mail accounts?
[Apologies in advance for all the Euro-centric images. Easy targets, I know.]
Images of Betrayal?
Judas Betraying Jesus
Images of Wit?
Odysseus Escapes Polyphemus
A-ha! Consider my comments on the previous posts to be somewhat “sous erature.”
In light of this week’s readings, to throw some context around them, you may want to consider how the logic of “remix” provides a different way of developing our “wide-site” approach to identity. Remix could offer clues that tell us how we manage to negotiate all the ideological power structures that occasion all this identity fragmentation.