Comments on: Day 216: Know Your Enemy… http://cerebraljetsam.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/day-216-know-your-enemy/ JETSAM–[noun]: goods cast overboard deliberately, as to lighten a vessel or improve its stability Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:58:38 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: anaj http://cerebraljetsam.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/day-216-know-your-enemy/#comment-2310 anaj Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:50:19 +0000 http://cerebraljetsam.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/day-216-know-your-enemy/#comment-2310 Thanks for taking part in the exercise! These 19 questions are indeed a bit lame - I guess if one did a good job in answering them one would try to build in a little subversion into all of its disciplining elements - yet I was too tired to first identify each such element and then try to circumvent it. So I guess that on the one hand it is a pretext - for socializing (for whatever that means!), you might say, but of course mainly for social control (or why ask questions like 'do you believe in gay marriage?' that requires double, or triple subversion). Do you remember the old Poesiealbum? What are they called in English? That was the same things, but avant la lettre digitale. When I was six, it was really expected that you wrote in a poem and pasted in a glitzy picture (although the poetry usually only consisted in a variation of Ich bin ein kleiner Spatz und kenn nur einen Satz und der heißt Piep piep piep Ich hab dich lieb. The number of entries you had in your Poesiealbum was as important as the number of Facebook-friends is now. When I was 12, the Poesiealben were exchanged by some printed matter that contained lists (Steckbriefe) for you to fill in. Favourite drink, favourite food (and I as a latter to be bulimic teenager was already very wary of the item: weight - and most girls were --> social control again, creation of of acceptable simulacra). Thanks for taking part in the exercise! These 19 questions are indeed a bit lame – I guess if one did a good job in answering them one would try to build in a little subversion into all of its disciplining elements – yet I was too tired to first identify each such element and then try to circumvent it.

So I guess that on the one hand it is a pretext – for socializing (for whatever that means!), you might say, but of course mainly for social control (or why ask questions like ‘do you believe in gay marriage?’ that requires double, or triple subversion).

Do you remember the old Poesiealbum? What are they called in English?

That was the same things, but avant la lettre digitale. When I was six, it was really expected that you wrote in a poem and pasted in a glitzy picture (although the poetry usually only consisted in a variation of

Ich bin ein kleiner Spatz
und kenn nur einen Satz
und der heißt
Piep piep piep
Ich hab dich lieb.

The number of entries you had in your Poesiealbum was as important as the number of Facebook-friends is now.

When I was 12, the Poesiealben were exchanged by some printed matter that contained lists (Steckbriefe) for you to fill in. Favourite drink, favourite food (and I as a latter to be bulimic teenager was already very wary of the item: weight – and most girls were –> social control again, creation of of acceptable simulacra).

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