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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.aol.com>,
"WRYTING-L : Writing and Theory across Disciplines" <WRYTING-L@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA>
Subject: phenomenology of approach: the work so far iv
Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 01:09:20 -0400 (EDT)
- (the work so far iv) phenomenology of approach = approaching the everglades, the city, illness, language, culture = 0 intermittent text the text of dispersal. sections are written into and out of the outline. the text is governed by the outline. subsequent versions increase the quantitative content, refine the tolerance of the investigation. the text is an accumulation or collocation of interspersions. 1 domain limited or unlimited a limited domain is inscribed with or without fuzzy boundaries. domains may be limited in sememe, space, and/or time. example: everglades bounded by hydrology, ecosystem. for example (below): everglades younger than writing, than human inscription. for example (below): the scribble: scribbled note, indecipherable handwriting, noise in the machine. the state/meant of the domain is always already a delimitation. (limits are closed sets in relation to the rest of the world/s, worlding.) 2 clues and cues from immemorial past a clue is an interpretable symptom, according to a scheme based on an articulated methodology. a cue is the activation of a scheme based on an anomaly or repetitive structure within the domain. the domain in turn may be defined by clues and cues. 3 difference between clues and cues a clue is based on evidence from the past to the present; a cue is based on activation within the present. 4 relevance theory and approach clues and cues are such by virtue of relevance; theoretical methodology is part of a critical sifting apparatus. 5 top-down classification schema this follows for example category theory, chaos/fractal theories; one always already begins with pre-theoretic presuppositions. 6 wonder, innovation, contradictions beginning with a sense of awe - everything signs everything, everything inscribes. innovation in terms of heuristic projections and introjections - contradictions in terms of anomalies, revisions, recuperations, returns. 7 deep ecologies, interstitial the ecologies become perceptually deeper; gaps are filled in; one lives in depth in the glades, aware of cyclical time, anomalous events, local histories, individual plants and animals. 8 filling in the habitus from larger to smaller clues and cues - alligators and wading birds to landbirds and invertebrates for example. as one moves down in scale, identification becomes increasingly difficult, if not impossible. 9 from anomaly to behaviors and back again; behavior clusters based on attributes. or from story to structure, diachrony to synchrony, anecdote to prediction. 10 sense of occupation and intimacy inhabitation based on familiarity, familiality. 11 familiarity, familiality in the first, equivalence scripts and schemata, universals, typifications; in the second, identity scripts and experientials, individuations. 12 maternality chora and matrix - the inchoate beneath the surface of the subject. 13 deconstruction of the abject disarticulation of the abject as such and rearticulation in terms of microstructure, skein. the muck and clutter in relation to marl/peat moss and biome or flora/fauna regimes. muck and clutter as regimes. 14 phenomenology of naming following the notion of rigid designators, beginning with classification, classification experience, virtual subjectivity and its relation to concrete manifestation. 15 inarticulate inchoate maternality: see above. the proffering of languaging or template. 16 the mess and its overcoming entanglement as regime intrusions, conflicting biomes, collapse or implosion, niche-construction, problems of scale in space and time. 17 phenomenology of touch demarcation of environment on the body - thicket tangle, poisonwood, against the skin. differentiation of the mass. 18 reinscription of domain the domain _as_ continually inscribed in negotiation. linguistic contract of the subject. increasingly fuzzy boundary issues. refinement of differentiations - typology to decreasing tolerances. 19 immersive and definable structures definable is fully reversible; immersive is fuzzy, vectored. both are capable of meta-level collocations, i.e. a definable of definable, immersive of definable, etc. 20 clue skeins clues related theoretically, taxonomically, in terms of typifications, taxonomies - heuristic skeins, established on the run. 21 the instrumental reason of flows and part-objects fluid mechanics, turbulence, stases within the flow - non-equilibrium thermodynamics. the partitioning, parcelling, clutter, of the world. part-objects as modules: modules 'on the part of' the subject, and modules 'defined as such' within the continually reinscribed domain. 22 gestural logics and superimpositions such that partial information (as in land's experiments re: color vision) extends across a total domain or spectrum. 23 delaying conclusions and the settling-in of elements inconclusivity of discourses which are increasingly refined. elements noticed and defined 'settle in' - in the sense of familiarity - always with default tags - i.e. elimination by counterexample. retention of _weak theory_ - searching for coherency without retention of apparently outmoded paradigms. 24 continuous processing and absorption of anomalies anomalies as generative of domain boundaries, entities, temporary inscriptions, potential of part-objects, etc. the anomaly as the mis-fit among the accountable and accounted-for. as unaccountable, uncounted, the anomaly generates circumscriptions, circumlocutions; these are involved by the subject in a consideration and absorption of the _detour._ every anomaly potentially turns everything around, and is turned around by everything. 25 modes of approach in space and time diachronic/synchronic approaches - space-time slices. diffusion of occluded layerings (bay bottoms versus onshore mangrove island topography). architectonics of the domain. 26 horizons of 'natural' and 'unnatural' worlds and horizons of 'subjective' and 'objective' worlds - in relation to heuristics and experiential structures (immersivities). definition is both tool and violation; mobile fuzzy domain boundaries participate in the natural (i.e. given) order as well as ideological political/economic conscious and unconscious considerations. 27 weakening of perceptual structures and responses approach is always already self-critical, self-critique; the critique itself is withdrawn from the self, sublimated into emergent considerations of the domain. the phenomenology of approach implies a weakness of language, definition, inscription, boundary, instrumental reason; it implies releasement, waiting (not waiting-upon) as well. 28 releasement and listening to listen without consideration of the source, the speech, one's answer; to avoid pausological structures ('yes, but...'); to speak after (what appears to be) the case. 29 buildings, dwellings, and habitations domains as fuzzy architectures, the build world, to the extent of the delimitation. dwelling, as in residing within the domain, within the subjective horizon of the experiential mode in relation to the domain. the domain as inhabited by the subject, wor(l)ds becoming 'natural' in the sense of familiarity, familiality. 30 the neighborhood it is the neighborhood, communality, the constitutes the increasing approach of the domain. to the extent of a phenomenology of approach, the domain is asymptotic, never fully approached. the neighborhood is a confluence of neighborhoods, intersections demographics, zones and zoning ordinances, ethnicities - just about any conceivable attribute, fuzzy or not (for example, families whose surnames begin with 'Mc'). the neighbor- hood is also a maternality, a comfort-zone, an occupation constituted by the participant's introjections and projections. neighborhood is created by their increasing coherency and stability, a homeostatic domain itself. the attainment of homeostasis involves mechanisms for absorbing anomaly, to the extent that anomaly becomes subsumed (i.e. this moth is an unknown species within the imperial silk family). 31 intersecting populations and worlds no domain is pure, no approach can posit an isolated object for long. skeins intermesh diachronically and synchronically, across disciplines and other semi-rigid boundaries of the classical episteme. domains possess symptomatic leakage and staining; there are stigma-zones, exhaustion zones, depletion zones, zones of surplus accumulations. what is posited as an object both diffuses and expands; becoming invisible, it participates within neighborhooding, worlding - becoming visible, it participates in skew-orthogonal skeining and the report. 32 phenomenology of withdrawal 33 the skein (skew-orthogonal) the grid and its imposition, input-output matrices, markov chains, tensors and absorptions of data, local geodesics, fuzzy or clouded enumerations, collocations of data. 34 the skein (askew and local) the local scribble, local geodesics without embedding, fluid-mechanical or cellular automata modeling, closures, accumulations of data, local messes. 35 increasing audacity and circumscription 36 the report for example: the everglades as we know them are younger than writing; this residue is older than that. the report is tailored to distribution modes, economics, audience, historiographies, symbolic conventions, bibliography and reference, dedication and authority, placement within or without various series, a particular written language, attendant taxonomic ploys, languages, and paradigms. 37 the distribution 38 the thinking of it and the rethinking of it, the arc through and across the report, response, distributions, counter-distributions, argument and counter-argument, the return to the field, the walking-through the field, and always already transformation of the domain and its problematic. 39 the world of it the world is all that is the case. but the world and worlding are dissimilar and 'the' already breaks down among virtual and real, virtual particles and introjections/projections, phantasms and implicate orders. nothing remains of encompassment; domains dissolve or problematize, just as the 'of it' - already a possessive - is another releasement. == Note: On Sat, 27 Apr 2002, Ryan Whyte wrote: > These texts are impressive, and for me, strangely, there's a distorted > resonance with German romantic science, of all things -- a deployment of > science/knowledge to its limit, the sublime and the positioning/experience > of the observer -- although certainly not the view from the mountaintop > but rather the risk of drowning -- and I wonder if a phenomenology of > drowning, if one can think such a thing, operates here also -- > The risk of drowning is both metaphoric and real - there are signature souvenirs from the Everglades - "I gave my blood in the Everglades" - in some of my photography, I've teetered or approached alligators/biting snakes/etc. at close range - But then drowning also connects with emergence/submergence - with sublim- ation prior to the return of the repressed - > Also, do you see fragmentariness (thinking of the work of Hans-Jost Frey > for example) operating as part of the phenomenology/reading here -- i.e. > in relation to the limits of identification etc. One of the rangers described Everglades visitors as down 30% since the 70s - whereas every other park is growing fast. This is because there, I think, there are no demarcations - drive around, focus on the larger birds and alligators, leave. She described the park as "layered" - identifica- tion in terms of the object increasingly magnifies; if we had stayed, we would have gone to microscopy. There is also the problematic of identity within the entanglement, which is also the problematic of post-modern identities, looped, eviscerated in terms of public/private, and caught in the matrices of what I called "radiations" or (Cantor) dusts - computer, telephone, radio/tv transmission, inter and intranettings, hackings, and so forth - not to mention the problematic of _what_ is caught as such - after Lacan / Foucault, we can't go back to the monolith of the unitary subject, monad, etc. - > And is this projected for a book? If I'm given the time/space to work on such - the problem is my usual instabilities in terms of income and the stress this produces. Certainly my thoughts for years have revolved around the issues of consciousness and intermediations in relation to formal systems - and what happens when these systems are chaotic, ungrounded, tangled, confused, fuzzy, etc. - === she speaks: sawgrass among periphyton, periphyton among sawgrass: who can untangle? buried in algae, across almost certain rotifera, stentor, what is innumerable?:the land is flat, liguus fasciatus a microcosm of rings, desiccated alligator weed, the layers crawl across tamiami, they subdue miami, tendrils across the river, down through lejeune, among the quarried keys :i don't know how to do this. i don't know how to say this.:: she writes: to speak is already not to know. claws and teeth mark the boundaries of analysis. bladderwort surrounds nano-bio organelles. nothing is complete.:desiccation of alligator holes, everything returning, supine, writing from a distance - violation and distantiation of inscription :i don't know how to do this. i don't know how to say this. the flat land with its swells, innumerable regimens of meter-high mountains, organism crawling through this body, through this flesh, the highs gauging nothing, a bit of movement, neural networking, a bit of stasis, world shutting-down :: she thinks: cormorant nothing is complete. noting is complete. on a thin notebook. through my to speak is already not to know. claws and teeth mark the boundaries of analysis. bladderwort surrounds nano-bio organelles. nothing is complete and right _