Wednesday, April 20, 2005
(3:00 PM) | F. Winston Codpiece III:
The Codpiece Irregularity;
or, The Meta-Contest
[UPDATE: Toward the end of this post, I propose a Meta-Contest -- namely, a contest to see who can come up with the best idea for an Internet contest. Apparently, this is not The H is O, where people are willing and able to wade through a sea of incoherent nonsense without any guarantee of there being a "point." So scroll down and leave comments! Codpiece Comments!][Blogger's "so-called 'post-recovery system or feature'" did not "work" -- and so, like Moses, I am painstakingly rewriting what the ungrateful throng of blogites disobeyed and spurned already, had already disobeyed and shattered themselves before its institution; this primordial or originary disobedience leaves much for us to consider, and so we shall perhaps return to it later.]
Despite being slandered and disenfranchised -- even, in the final reckoning, by Adam Kotsko himself, who will do anything to please a woman, whether on the Internet or elsewhere -- I dare to post. And here: precisely here, at The Weblog, The Weblog, The Weblog Above Every Other Weblog. I write here, here precisely, for this very reason: namely, that I can. I can write here. I am able to write here because I have been enabled to do so. I can write here in the style and language I choose; and so:
- Je peux écrire ici
- Puedo escribir aquí
- Posso scrivere qui
- Eu posso escrever aqui
- Ich kann hier schreiben
- Ik kan hier schrijven
- Я могу написать здесь
- &c.
Three Coding Systems for the Western European-kings under the sky,Irregular, you say? I am nothing if not -- and it is precisely this if not that we must question, investigate, and interrogate -- irregular, full to the brim with contradiction and solemnity. And in view of this, in celebration and commemoration of my very exclusion and rejection -- remembering, together, in a kenotic movement into the world or worlds -- that I announce my unprecedented act, which will be to inaugurate, right now, here, today, for us, quickly and without delay or DeLay --
Seven for the Asian-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for the Mortal Slavs doomed to die,
One for the Dark Codpiece on his dark throne
In the Land of The Weblog where the Shadows lie.
One Coding System to rule them all, One Coding System to find them,
One Coding System to bring them all and in the darkness bind them,
In the Land of The Weblog where the Shadows lie.
-- a contest. But this will not have been merely one contest among others. Far from being even an exemplary contest among the many examples of contests that have come before it and that will come, in endless succession throughout the millenia, after it, this contest would be the very contesticity or contestation of the contest, for here it is precisely the contest as contest -- if there is any contest at all -- that is at stake [en jeu].
As announced or prefigured in my title, this would be the Meta-Contest; namely, a contest to see who can come up with the best idea for an Internet contest. And the reward is reward itself -- performatively (or constatively?) the winner shall be awarded his victory as award and re-ward, an iteration of previous awards or a-wards even in this contestation of the contest. Voting is open. No one will be excluded, a priori or a postiori, whether by the contest coordinator (that is, "me") or by any participant or non-participant, real or imagined. This means that you can vote regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, handicap(ability), nationality, religion, creed, membership or lack of membership in the rock group Creed, and any other characteristic or trait that has ever been or ever shall be adduced as a disqualification for participation in the processes of voting. There shall be no exclusion even of those who, for whatever reason, wish not to sign up for or disclose "their own" e-mail address and so fill in their Internet patron's address in a comment box. Without exception, everyone except the troll variously known as
- troll du jour
- low-rent empiricist positivist
- norad of the one testicle
- anti-Kamala
or - Glenn Reynolds
