the Separatism seminar: Himself's films read as anti-Reconfiguration samizdat — "Himself’s work was all very self-consciously…"

The samizdat question lands on Himself: Séparatisteurs could "read The ONANtiad or Brick as anti-Reconfiguration films" — the very n024 titles this batch's predecessor mines — and Immanent Domain "on one level an allegory about the Concavity." Hal's rebuttal is the theme's boundary drawn from inside: Himself's work "was all very self-consciously American. His interest in politics was subordinate to form. Always." The anti-O.N.A.N. reading is the insurgents' projection onto an apolitical formalist — which is exactly how the real Entertainment will be weaponized (the maker's intent irrelevant to the weapon's use). Why "The Mad Stork's name would come up in connection with somebody saying samizdat" is the seam this whole call is secretly probing.