what haunts us most is not the professorial acquisition of data, information, knowledge, technology & power. instead, it is the dangers such distribution temps and the inherent risk pandora tigers in our imaginations. i learned something new today that shakes my value(s). do i share this information? do i dialectically synthesize or materialize my research to antagonize my status quo? do i internalize my findings toward my own will to power? the information and the reality it bears is not the challenge --I will never forget what i learned today as i commemorate its happening here today. what is the relationship between glory and information? will, or should, this information impact the body of my work?
"the study of what "is written" is also the science of what story we are compelled to invent in the face of what we cannot know is coming." –alexis pauline gumbs