Why do I sign letters to other artists in the manner below?<\/p>\n
love
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The dot is easy. The system that I learned to send email on was HP-UX, and on that system and many other UNIX systems when you were finished with an email you typed a dot on a line all by itself. This sent the email. The reason why I still use it [even though it’s now redundant] is partially habit and also as little mark to announcing those who would recognize it where I came from.<\/p>\n
Love is a very flexible word in my culture, with a vast range of meaning. When I use it in the context of letters to Artists I am implying a strong sense of fondness, a respect for and a solidarity with those who try to make new things. This is also a performative move. Similar in some senses to Cindy Loehr’s Love Letters<\/a> project.<\/p>\n I am not a purist and I must admit to being frightened by the social fallout of saying love to someone who may not be expecting it. A lot of my performative work is hard in this way. Hard is good right?<\/p>\n love Why do I sign letters to other artists in the manner below? love carl . The dot is easy. The system that I learned to send email on was HP-UX, and on that system and many other UNIX systems when you were finished with an email you typed a dot on a line all by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,11,12,13],"class_list":["post-7","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-art","tag-computer","tag-friends","tag-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlwarnick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlwarnick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlwarnick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlwarnick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlwarnick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/carlwarnick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlwarnick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlwarnick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlwarnick.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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