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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: 11
Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 12:28:08 -0400 (EDT)
( images at http://nikuko.blogspot.com ) 11 By default we are stewards of the earth. An irresolute contradiction: beginning and ending of philosophy, absence of, not absented, Being; philosophy of this labor, this presence, this present: but: philosophy not of psychology, not of sexuality; neither the tropology nor the speciality; therefore the body present and absent; desire present and absent; mathesis present and absent: but: the remoteness of philosophy; remoteness of mathematics; remoteness of fundamental ontologies; within beings without Being. Therefore "by default": given that there is none, that there is none other; our ethos: subsummation of the other; recuperation of the other within the same; recuperation of the same within the other. Sheffer dual: "neither A nor B"; Sheffer: "not both A and B"; the fundamental "jectivity" - projection and introjection - expulsion and incorporation - exculpation and absolution (the register of ethos) - of organism in relation, in dialog, dialectic, with the world: imminent perceived environment - the project of organism, project of the environment vis-a-vis organism. The given without the giver, given without the gift, limitless, unbounded: the present. Stewardship by default: the given of the world, the wager of local zero-sum. Foundation of belief in relation to "what is to be done": Second jectivity, the overlay of ethos, Spirit, what passes for foundation. The foundation of belief is in passing. Is in passing as such. Belief is nothing if not of consequence; the consequence of belief is stewardship. 12 The basis of stewardship is decision. Decision is bifurcation, digital. Bifurcation is fundamental: the Schrodinger cat paradox depends on it. From analog continuous waveform to digital. The suturing of the digital: flattening; flattening by the organism in relation to the organism and its functioning. Suturing: the mathematical operation of integration. The other side of flattening: Contrast increase: the mathematical operation of differentiation. Differentiation is the basis of survival Differentiation is a disturbance of the digital within the analog. From disturbance, suturing. Worlding is dialog-dialectic among flattening and disturbance. 13 Here philosophy no longer speaks: I no longer speak. For what is being spoke is, can only be, speech broken by the world. Speech by its very present-presencing is always already broken; philosophy breaks on speech. 14 "Of such, without recourse to the return, because of evidence: one cannot return, or rather a return would be always and only from the present to the present, operable upon a remnant of the production, but only the remnant, which would be drawn into presence, or re-presence.'' The return is inconceivable, a conceiving; the return: from heroic travel; from death to birth; from wound to heal; from anomaly to suture; from digital to analog; from (mythology of the) death drive to (mythology of the) death drive; from arousal to satiation. The return is as-if, fiction. The return loops; there is never a return; the return re-presents the world; all re-presentation of the world is the appearance of return. To return is to re-possess; possessions are repossessions. The loop of the return is the process of reification; it transforms the appearance of inherent value into exchange; within mathesis, it is capital. Capital is seeing the world; it is eternal presence. Eternal return is always eternal presence; it is the presence of as-if-I-had-known within the I-know; return is the foundation of culture. 15 Return is the foundation of culture; desire is the foundation of culture; language is the foundation of culture; sexuality is the foundation of culture; product-production is the foundation of culture; disturbance is the foundation of culture; differentiation is the foundation of culture; negation is the foundation of culture; there is no foundation of culture as such; there is no cultural foundation. (If the world were not a stew, philosophy would be axiomatic; if philosophy were axiomatic, there would be no philosophy. The exhaustion of the absolute is the absolute of exhaustion.) [16 forthcoming]