[NetBehaviour] interesting new language
Edward Picot
julian.lesaux at gmail.com
Sun Mar 15 14:38:44 CET 2020
Yes, I like Max's dives into word origins. You feel the grittiness and
shrillness of the here-and-now is turning into something more considered
and more cultured. And I like 'Our whole immune system is like a
library' as a quote.
Edward
On 13/03/2020 19:37, Bjørn Magnhildøen via NetBehaviour wrote:
> i think that's nice deconstruction of 'news' as a virus
> hysteria brings out the best in people
>
>
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 6:09 PM Max Herman via NetBehaviour
> <netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org
> <mailto:netbehaviour at lists.netbehaviour.org>> wrote:
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> Some odd emails are arriving. Such as, from the local Theater,
> announcing that my tickets to /Twelfth Night/ are canceled, as are
> performances of /The Bacchae/ and a new work called /CenterPlay/.
>
> Canceled by what? A non-living yet self-reproducing molecule. An
> ironic creator of empty theaters, unplayed plays both
> Shakespearean and hockey. How novel!
>
> I got another email from the Public Broadcasting System called
> "what you need to know about the Novel Coronavirus."
>
> Novel, is a word, it means book, or narrative, new narrative,
> nouvelle, and in this sense is old as /Don Quixote/ or /Moll
> Flanders/, not that new anymore (though perhaps newer than /Hamlet
> Prince of Denmark)/.
> At one time it meant "the new books" arguably, neobiblia, novi
> libri. Corona means crown, but going farther back meant garland
> for military service, from the PIE "bend," as in, you bend a
> branch of leaves so that you can place it on someone's head, "they
> fought." (Art is from a similar PIE root for joint, arthritis,
> arm, a bend that bends?) An identifier of something done and of
> identification. Virus means poisonous fluid, possibly from PIE
> "ueis-" to melt away, flow, rot perhaps? I often think of the PIE
> root weid- to see, but I don't know if they are related. Flow,
> see? I try to imagine two hominids trying to talk to each other
> at some point, one more motivated, the other patient, one
> scribbling with a stick or spoken words, saying "see? see what I
> mean?" scribble scribble chatter chatter.
>
> So, book-garland-poisonflow? In any case, it all seems very like
> haunting, very like memory. The novel is what we don't know yet,
> right? A virus isn't new if we have memory of it. Our whole
> immune system is like a library. We each have our own, but we also
> are part of each other's. Similar perhaps to how libraries are
> connected.
>
> All of which calls to mind Hippocrates I think.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Max
>
> https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=novel
> https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=corona
> https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=virus
> https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=vision
> https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=art
> https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=medicine
> https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Telomere-structure-A-Telomeres-are-composed-by-a-double-strand-region_fig2_323523320
>
> Chapter Four: Hippocratic Medicine and Greek Tragedy
> https://brill.com/view/book/9789004232549/B9789004232549-s005.xml
> https://www.etymonline.com/word/*weid-?ref=etymonline_crossreference
> https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=*weis-
>
> PS - sadly or happily, that same Public Broadcasting Service email
> announces Niall Ferguson's new TV show Networld, tragically or
> comically, debuting on March 17, the night I was supposed to see
> /Twelfth Night/, the night on which Saint Patrick drove the snakes
> out of Ireland.
> https://www.pbs.org/video/niall-fergusons-networld-preview-cpi5cf/?utm_source=whattowatchnews&utm_medium=email&utm_term=secondarypromo6&utm_content=20200228&utm_campaign=networld_2020
>
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