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>
>Simon Ford's book ends with: "To study and learn from the lessons of 
>the SI is no idle pastime or exercise in passive contemplation. It is 
>nothing if not a determined step towards the realisation of a future 
>society where the SI's ideas about a useful life are no longer quite 
>so exceptional."
>
>At this point one certainly already knows that the users addressed by 
>his book are of the same kind than those addressed by Wolman, Debord, 
>Vaneigem and other SI members. They are the potential 
>revolutionaries, just that this time they are expected to get dressed 
>modestly in history, rather than in slogan. This has the potential of 
>becoming a very clandestine revolution, as such possibly a successful 
>one.
>
>] ...


ie. Simon Ford thinks himself a hypocrite and thus we havent a firm basis for believing him





>Yes, it reminded me of reading virilio in college - the academic 
>environment being very much smitten by _reflexivity in film_, i.e. you 
>see the hand push the button in the tragic end, sometimes lost in 
>virilio's musings on vectors of smart bombs. We watched a film in that 
>time, shot from the front of a tram at the advent of film as an 
>attraction in the amusement parks. The version we watched was done by 
>an experimental filmmaker who slowed the deliberate forward momentum of 
>the original to a crawl on an optical printer. Wish I could remember 
>the name of the filmmaker, but it escapes me at the moment.
>
>
>On Nov 19, 2005, at 11:03 PM, Alan Sondheim wrote:
>
>> incredible video - I've seen a number of pieces w/ho &other small 
>> guage model trains - Alan



incredible