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01/07/2004 Archived Entry: "RAVE"

Suddenly inspired, I started writing out a draft for my CCCC paper (yeah, I do everything early and on time). The idea is to propose Techno as metaphor for the Writing Center - borrowing Boquet's interest in writing center noise and Seitz's undeveloped idea of using metaphor to shape curriculum. Techno, of course, is a post-literate model, an electrate model of interconnectivity. I'm taking some cue here from Eshun's great book on sampling More Brilliant Than the Sun and Shaviro's Connected (as well as Ulmer's statement that mood - the groove - is the focus of digital writing), and finding the Rave as another metaphor for this kind of writing center activity I imagine.
I went over to Everything2.com (a ravist site if there ever was one) and did some searching for rave. I came up with this (among others):

What to bring to a rave

This is the voice of experience speaking!
-Pacifier
-Whistle (Where the fuck is the whistle crew...the whistle crew...)
-Candy (both the kind that you wear, and the kind that you eat to give out)
-Disposable camera (don't you love the way that people smile when they're rollin'?)
-Backpack (to hold everything that you bring)
-A sucker to hold your backpack for you
-directions (this one should explain itself...)
-Extra cash (you know, for glowsticks and water)
-Vicks VapoRub (actually, this is optional for me, I am a vicks mooch)
-Caffeine/Ephedrine (in case you need legal help staying awake)
-Paper/pen (for email addresses and phone numbers)
-Phat pants
and the most important of all, believe it or not...
-Lip Balm

That is rave writing. Making the connections where connections are not obvious. But is it rave tutoring? No. For that, I need to expand some more. . .