Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.40.0111061703370.6739-100000@panix3.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: CYBERMIND@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
Subject: and
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2001 17:03:57 -0500
- concepts organized by repeated sorts annihilation translation naming enumeration form chaos being non-being associations bracketing demarcation information category set equality one causation particle wave field limit something identity stasis direction consciousness i difference creation self-awareness motion perception many cyclation concept referent order derivation substitution truth/tautology duration surface number origin membership/belonging space time constants entity dispersion change operation self inherency ontology non-identity falsehood/contradiction variables dimension inscription measure substance fundamentals void vector virtuality negation disorder non-equality nothing process state operator analysis a repeated sort in this instance is made by sort file1 > file2 - at which point file2 is justified; then file2 > file1 - at which point file1 is justified. this repeats - not indefinitely (although i have no proof of this) - until stasis is achieved - i.e. file1 = file2. the sort is alphabetic; therefore the concepts - which are similar to kantian or aristotelian categories - are organized accordingly in alphabetic order. this transforms the concepts - which presumably have their own, implicit, order - into associations based on explicit happen- stance. the result is an apparent relativization of conceptation, based on nothing more than english (in this sense it is similar to some of the logical paradoxes of the early 20th-century which 'resolved' in terms of one or another language). further, if the concepts are indeed foundational in any sense whatsoever - then any ordering is as good as any other, since they would be intrinsic- ally independent. the associative complexes formed by repeated sorting would be the result of a dialectic of perception between the reader and the text, which is more a collocation or inscriptive apparatus - a search engine in the sense of a spider, across and throughout the real and all its appurtenances. finally, a certain biologism is apparent in the list - ranging from 'i' and consciousness through 'self' and 'self-awareness'; this brings to light a certain reduction or veering of conceptation towards an organic reading - i.e. heuristics or methodologies for making sense of the world, ranging from retinal processing through naming, inscription, referent, and truth. this is also at variance with a classical condition of independence - in this case, the variance is from within the list, intrinsic to it (the list at this point conjuring up classical cybernetics as well), not extrinsic - a deeper waywardness, redolent of desire, than alphabetic ordering would create. analysis^2 meta-analysis or the need for compensation, sublimation exacting an equivalence somewhere down the line or loosely across the plane. all of these are open moments - 'well, i'll explain myself,' 'well, i meant such and such' - and in relation to legitimacy. see analysis^2 as a thwarted series; the idea, that of recursion as in gnu - gnu not unix - and hack - tends either towards the asymptotic - 'well, i don't know,' 'well, it might have been' - or towards a foreclosure or basin - 'well, you've got enough to go on,' 'well, you don't care anyway.' then in any case, an apologetics of writing, writing in an n-dimensional space, writing to oneself, extending the skein or membrane, trapping others - _