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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: Actions, what there is
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 12:25:16 -0400 (EDT)
Actions, what there is Bhasha Pariccheda, Division of the Categories of the Nya'ya Philosophy - Roeg translation 1847-50, there's this: "There are five actions, throwing upwards, throwing downwards, contract- ing, expanding and going. Wandering about, evacuating, trickling, flaming upwards, moving crookedly, are included in going." Actions are externally vectored, or internally transformed (torsion, tensor calculus). Vectors require gravitation, i.e. 'upwards' and 'down- wards' conditioned by that which is capable of contraction, expansion. Actions are situated, coherent with earth's inhabitation. Within 'going,' 'wandering about' configures only the neutrality of move- ment; the same is true with 'moving crookedly.' 'Flaming upwards' implies an external vector. 'Wandering about' and 'moving crookedly' imply no such thing, neither foundation nor embedding space; one may wander nowhere, move crookedly in relation to one's presence, an interiority related to intrinsic surface measurement. 'Trickling' and 'evacuating' reference abject expulsion; they countenance both interior and exterior, compression or collapse of the former, and the turbulent spew or emission of the latter - which is inherently vectorless - instead a fuzzy open set, topological suppuration. These categories, all of them, meld into one another - interior is the complement, however fuzzy, penetrated, incoherent, of exterior; trickling is ingestion, evacuation is impulsion. The world roils. There are 'five actions,' actions within inactions, inactions within actions, inhering incoherency of roiling. Action = eternal movement = breath. Organism is central to worlding, worlding is central to organism. http://www.asondheim.org/inextremis1.jpg http://www.asondheim.org/inextremis2.jpg http://www.asondheim.org/inextremis3.jpg http://www.asondheim.org/inextremis4.jpg