THE TABLE TALK

In What Is Philosophy?, Deleuze and Guattari said on page 69: "It is thought itself that requires the thinker to be a friend so that thought is divided up within itself and can be exercised. It is thought itself which requires this division of thought between friends. These are no longer empirical, psychological, and social determinations, still less abstractions, but intercessors, crystals, or seeds of thought."

We (that is, ABLE, BAKER, AND CHARLIE, with BODGERS sometimes peering in through the window) read, notate, write, contemplate; and then we sit at the conference table at Sixth Avenue. In our talk there, we look at the purposes of THE PROGRAMME. We browse through the work being done to find correspondences and threads. Much of the table talk is smoke without fire; it goes out the window and we forget it. Now and then some of what we say seems worth keeping. Here you find what we thought was worth keeping. Some of it still may have about it the smell of smoke.

TALK ONE: of the need to change conditions

TALK TWO: of territory

TALK THREE: of the transcendental

TALK FOUR: of generational perspective

TALK FIVE: of the bitter tone of postmoderns

TALK SIX: of Bodgers

TALK SEVEN: of fishing in the electronic sea

TALK EIGHT: of fragmentation and convergence

TALK NINE: of hypertext as the mind's map

TALK TEN: of Robbe-Grillet's Jealousy

TALK ELEVEN: of screen, book, and culture

TALK TWELVE: of the start of postmodernity